[sclitheroe]

I have two spare graphics cards that I'm looking at chucking into a machine, and I can't decide which is the better card, and thus which I should keep.

First is a Radeon HD2600XT with 256 megs of GDDR3 RAM.

Second is an Nvidia 9400GT with 1 GB of DDR2 (maybe DDR3) RAM

Which card would you pick if you could only have one? Right now I'm leaning towards the 9400GT. Less power consumption, more texture memory, PhysX capable.

But I'm wondering if overall the HD2600XT is faster.

Chucking both and getting something newer/faster/not-very-expensive is not the point here - you have to sell me on one of these two cards.

Gaming would be limited to mid-end stuff, mostly Flight Sims, Civ4, stuff like that. My monitor only does 1440x900 on this machine, so its not like I have a ton of pixels to push anyways.

Reason I'm asking for opinions is because I'm finding it tough to google good benchmarks on the two cards, as they are roughly a generation apart or maybe a half-generation, so the test platforms changed on the respective benchmarks. And because I'm too lazy to run benchmarks.