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R7 370 question and CPU bottleneck

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MrDockas

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Which version of the R7 370 would be better:
-STRIX-R7370-DC2-4GD5 or
-STRIX-R7370-DC2OC-2GD5?
Overclocked or 2GB more? Which one would be better?
And will this card be bottlenecked from the Pentium G4400 in games?
Thanks.
 
Get the 4GB one , you can OC it just as much anyway. Unfortunately a dual core CPU with 2 threads is not really fit for new games regardless of what GPU you use. Look into buying a G4560 , you may not believe it but it will make a pretty big difference.
 
Vya Domus said:
Get the 4GB one , you can OC it just as much anyway. Unfortunately a dual core CPU with 2 threads is not really fit for new games regardless of what GPU you use. Look into buying a G4560 , you may not believe it but it will make a pretty big difference.
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Yeah, I know about the G4560 with its 4 threads, it's on my list for next purchase after the R7 370. I'm not that interested in newer games so I can save some buck in the meantime for the G4560 without losing anything. Thanks for the help.
 
I can run Grandtheft auto five with a GTX 970 or r9 580 with my pentium g3258 pretty well, but 2 threads is a dying gaming cpu sadly, oc required
 
jboydgolfer said:
I can run Grandtheft auto five with a GTX 970 or r9 580 with my pentium g3258 pretty well, but 2 threads is a dying gaming cpu sadly, oc required
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I'm aware of that, I hope the G4560 can be sufficient enough for some lighter gaming in the next couple of years.

By the way, will the R7 370 be a sizeable upgrade over my current GTX 550 Ti?
 
Grab the 4G Model if you are serious
 
MrDockas said:
By the way, will the R7 370 be a sizeable upgrade over my current GTX 550 Ti?
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I'd be totally guessing but based on the progress of every other video card year to year, 15 to 20% performance increase. On the low side, 10 to 15% increase
 
eidairaman1 said:
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For you to have this as an option
STRIX-R7370-DC2OC-2GD5
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Well I know that the R7 370 isn't that fast, so I though the additional 2GBs of video memory won't make much of a difference, while the factory overclock would bring more performance. That's why I asked in the first place.
 
MrDockas said:
Well I know that the R7 370 isn't that fast, so I though the additional 2GBs of video memory won't make much of a difference, while the factory overclock would bring more performance. That's why I asked in the first place.
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The more data you can hold in vram the less it has to refer to other system resources. The gpu speed can be boosted using afterburner. If you are still unsure find a r9 290/390 and call it a day.
 
eidairaman1 said:
The more data you can hold in vram the less it has to refer to other system resources. The gpu speed can be boosted using afterburner. If you are still unsure find a r9 290/390 and call it a day.
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I didn't know this. That's why I wanted to ask more educated people about this topic. Thanks.
 
MrDockas said:
I didn't know this. That's why I wanted to ask more educated people about this topic. Thanks.
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Just like a cpu cache-ram-hdd/ssd.
 
MrDockas said:
Well I know that the R7 370 isn't that fast, so I though the additional 2GBs of video memory won't make much of a difference, while the factory overclock would bring more performance. That's why I asked in the first place.
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This is the case for low end cards, think a gt 230 with 512MB RAM or 2GB RAM, either way the card will be crippled by the low shader count and clock speed so adding 2GB vRAM to a very slow card won't help it, the 370 however is a lot better than low end and you will be able to utilise more than 2GB vRAM so definitely go for the 4GB if those are your options.
 
eidairaman1 said:
Just like a cpu cache-ram-hdd/ssd.
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Yeah, I knew about that, but not that the GPU memory functioned in the same way. Thanks once again.

NdMk2o1o said:
This is the case for low end cards, think a gt 230 with 512MB RAM or 2GB RAM, either way the card will be crippled by the low shader count and clock speed so adding 2GB vRAM to a very slow card won't help it, the 370 however is a lot better than low end and you will be able to utilise more than 2GB vRAM so definitely go for the 4GB if those are your options.
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Thanks for your help, pal. Now I know a bit more about GPU memory.
 
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