Evga gtx 670 ftw 4gb

[Deridder45]

The 4gb ftw version just came out. Anyone know any reviews or benchmarks of this card? Or heard anything good about it?

 

[the54thvoid]

No specifics but the 4GB does nothing for the card.

 

[Deridder45]

I am looking at it for triple monitors

 

[the54thvoid]

I'm sure one of the main sites did a review of a 4GB 670. Time to google up

W1zz's review of the GTX 680 with 4GB. Last line is very relevant.

Even in this test, the performance relative to a stock 2 GB GTX 680 is within the typical range we see from the overclock out of the box - which has nothing to do with memory. I further investigated and checked memory usage with three 30" monitors, for a combined resolution of 4800x2560. Here we see three benchmarks exceed 2.5 GB: Stalker COP, Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3. Not anywhere close to 4 GB! Running a single card at such a resolution makes no sense since framerates would be too low for any serious gaming. Given this evidence, I am convinced that there is no need to have more than 2 GB of graphics memory on a GTX 680 (or any other recent NVIDIA card).

 

[EarthDog]

Googled up for him: https://www.google.com/webhp?source...on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1344&bih=914

 

[the54thvoid]

Got something in my edit too

And FTR it's the same with the Sapphire 7970 Toxic 6GB. No need for so much on one card, unless you triple monitor with sli or crossfire.

 

[EarthDog]

I am convinced that there is no need to have more than 2 GB of graphics memory on a GTX 680 (or any other recent NVIDIA card).

I bit confused at that last line... One card cant power triple monitors well, we know that, But two of course does a solid job. We all (should) know that the ram isnt 'pooled' but mirrored in SLI/CrossfireX. So if its using more than 2.5GB, wouldnt the 4GB help out at multi monitor resos since its using more than the 2GB buffer?

Im getting the impression from that quote that in SLI it wouldnt make it a difference... but it would as it wouldnt have to 'page out' the 500MB of vram...

EDIT: Forget it... disregard.

 

[Deridder45]

I have read reviews fir the SC 4gb but since the FTW 4gb is brand new i cant find any....

Thanks for the help

 

[EarthDog]

There isnt much difference at all. a FPS or two since the clocks arent much different.

 

[Deridder45]

There isnt much difference at all. a FPS or two since the clocks arent much different.

I figured but for a few extra bucks...why not

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

only game i have seen the v ram make a difference is SKyrim, with mods where with AA on and still 60 fps mind you at 2560x1440 i think BP was getting 2900mb of vram usage. Skyrim tends to have a nasty habit of if their isnt enough vram when using mods stuff turns purple on occasion as it fails to load textures rare occurance tho.