Duda: my 8800 GTS vs GT620 / GT630 Are they better? Should I change?

[battman]

Hello fellow users,

here I am once again, strolling through my ignorance, a result of my temporary forced disconnection from the world of Hardware. A few weeks ago you helped me solve my doubts about power supplies, catch up and buy the one I needed, now I ask for your help once again, and once again I will try to make everything concrete and concise.

Let's see, I have an XFX 8800 GTS 512 alpha dog edition graphics card. It works perfectly, it's a great card and as I knew when I bought it back in 2007/2008, just released on the market (mine was one of the first in Spain ^__^ and that made me wait desperately and get very annoyed with the distributor), its performance over the years has been fabulous and fantastic, being at its peak above more expensive graphics cards and a priori "better", but when it comes down to it, we all know how things are...

The thing is that even though it continues to pull EVERYTHING (these days I'm even playing BF3 and by default it puts me on a medium/low level with 2x AA even), I'm starting to see that the half a gig of video memory is not enough for me. To be specific, I find myself playing mostly Skyrim, since I'm a fan of the Elder series, and I've modded it to the gills, but I see that to achieve the graphical splendor of the game in terms of texture resolution, I would need a 1gb graphics card because the 512 is not enough for me.

The RAM of my system is 3gb, I know that's not enough either, but that's already solved, waiting to receive a module to be at 4gb, which is the maximum my motherboard supports...

So these days I got curious about what "CHEAP" cards could do and I looked at speeds and amount of memory and so on, and I had a doubt, which I hope is not too silly. But for those of you who are up to date, does it make sense that for 50 euros they are worth, I change the 8800gts for one of these two:

MSI GeForce GT 630 1GB GDDR3 912-V809-086 Graphics Card
MSI GeForce GT 620 2GB GDDR3 Low Profile 912-V809-240 Graphics Card

Oh, everything is still like in the old days, and those low-end graphics in their generation are still very inferior to my high-end card in its generation? Those graphics couldn't do what mine does with most games, or on the contrary, are they superior to mine today and I could play better with them and notice that 1gb (or 2) of video memory?

If the change is for the better and I'm wrong, which of these two is better and more recommended?

Thank you again in advance for the time you spend reading me and for the help you could give me if you can. Thanks

[Franziskaner]

the closest thing I've found is this
regards

[Fassou]

The graphic card you want to retire is the model that nVIDIA has "reused" the most times, simply by changing the name, to turn it into a next-generation card :facepalm: (9800GT/GTS250).

Its current equivalent would be a GTX550/650 that goes for ~100€, and with that budget I would personally opt for an AMD Radeon HD7770, rather than those.

Salu2!

[Jesus_Panella]

Let's see. The GT620 and GT630 are low-end graphics cards, and the GT620 will probably perform less than the 8800GTS.

If you want a graphics card in good condition to play today for a hundred euros, at least the GTX550 that performs much better than the 8800 GTS, the HD7770 is advisable. And more so because The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, a good graphics card is recommended, especially if you want to play at high resolutions and a quad-core CPU.

But it's not all about the graphics card when it comes to playing, since it would be interesting to know what CPU your computer has. Because if you put a graphics card like the HD7770, GTX 560 Ti, or an HD 7850 and your CPU is not up to par, said graphics card will be limited by the CPU.