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Too many opinions! Hard to decide! @.@
I wonder about the real world performace of 1gb vs 2gb cards. Though I don't know how Ati laces their memory with their GPUs, speaking from Nvidia experieces, 2gb vs 1gb is almost no difference. Every benchmark I has seen for the 285gtx 1gb/2gb showed almost no performance difference between (~1-3%) them. Maybe more memory is needed for tessellation? Who knows. Tessellation is not the only method of making prettier graphics out there. Lot of people made a huge deal about physx when it first came out and that people starting saying the majority of future games will use physx for the physics. That has not happen. I am not sure if I want to spend an extra $100 for a 1-3% improvement. My understanding with the 2gb memory will mainly benefit people who are playing a resolutions greater than 19x12 and/or playing with multidisplays, which is probably 1% people. Most people play at 19x12 or below and will not likely see any benefit from the extra memory. The 1gb 5870s and the 5970s are not framebuffer limited at any single screen resolution 19x12 or below
On paper, more memory is good, but as someone on this thread pointed out, there are a lot of other things going that needs to be considered in the GPU pipeline than just memory. This more window dressing than anything else.
BTW, would my CPU be a bottleneck for 5970 (with and without CF) or 5870 (with and without CF)?
I wonder about the real world performace of 1gb vs 2gb cards. Though I don't know how Ati laces their memory with their GPUs, speaking from Nvidia experieces, 2gb vs 1gb is almost no difference. Every benchmark I has seen for the 285gtx 1gb/2gb showed almost no performance difference between (~1-3%) them. Maybe more memory is needed for tessellation? Who knows. Tessellation is not the only method of making prettier graphics out there. Lot of people made a huge deal about physx when it first came out and that people starting saying the majority of future games will use physx for the physics. That has not happen. I am not sure if I want to spend an extra $100 for a 1-3% improvement. My understanding with the 2gb memory will mainly benefit people who are playing a resolutions greater than 19x12 and/or playing with multidisplays, which is probably 1% people. Most people play at 19x12 or below and will not likely see any benefit from the extra memory. The 1gb 5870s and the 5970s are not framebuffer limited at any single screen resolution 19x12 or below
On paper, more memory is good, but as someone on this thread pointed out, there are a lot of other things going that needs to be considered in the GPU pipeline than just memory. This more window dressing than anything else.
BTW, would my CPU be a bottleneck for 5970 (with and without CF) or 5870 (with and without CF)?
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