384/4GB Card should not be that far off?

[Z15CAM]

Lower Prices for the GTX 770 & 780's?

I'm in the market for a 3 to 4 GB VRam Video Card to power a 2560x1440 QX2710 PLS Display. Preferably with a 384 Bus.

At present, for the price, the Gigabyte HD 7970 3GB looks good but I from reports the 7970 tends to run rather Hot, Noisy and Driver support is dubious, especially in Cross Fire, if I elect to go that route in the future.

Then there's the question on whether OpenCL will beat out Physics X in gaming.

Should hold off purchasing with the chance that nVidia will lower prices of their GTX 770 4GB & 780 3GB cards once AMD releases their new offering this fall or possibly purchase the new AMD Card at that time?

I would think between $400 to $600 for a descent 384/4GB Card should not be that far off.

 

[FalseChristian]

If we all kept waiting for the next generation of GPUs before buying we would all be running TNT2's still. The 7970 doesn't run that hot and with AMD's new drivers XFire has greatly improved.

On the nVidia side go with the GTX 770 4GB and overclock it and save some money. You can't go wrong with either card.

Happy gaming!

 

[Termie]

You wouldn't want a 4GB 384-bit card. The memory amount should be evenly divisible by the bus width, such that 4GB (4,096MB) would either be 256-bit or 512-bit.

My guess is that we'll never see higher-end cards than the 770 using 4GB, not until a faster VRAM standard is introduced, or a 512-bit bus is reintroduced. It was a failure on the Radeon HD 2900xt in 2007 due to its high power use.

 

[el etro]

Those buses and Memory amounts are great for greater resolutions.

 

[Z15CAM]

You wouldn't want a 4GB 384-bit card. The memory amount should be evenly divisible by the bus width, such that 4GB (4,096MB) would either be 256-bit or 512-bit.

My guess is that we'll never see higher-end cards than the 770 using 4GB, not until a faster VRAM standard is introduced, or a 512-bit bus is reintroduced. It was a failure on the Radeon HD 2900xt in 2007 due to its high power use.

Learn something all the time - So my thread is inherently flawed ;o)

 

[KingFatty]

With your budget, what about dual 7950s for crossfire? There is a special going now for the MSI twin frozr for just over $200 after rebate on newegg...

 

[FalseChristian]

With your budget, what about dual 7950s for crossfire? There is a special going now for the MSI twin frozr for just over $200 after rebate on newegg...

This man is great! The Radeon 7950 is already fast but overclocks like a champ. The price is unbelievably low. You should jump on this and grab 2. I would but my mobo only supports SLI (I think).

 

[futurefields]

It would be a 4.5 gb card next wouldn't it?

384 bit cards have multiples of 1.5gb

that's why there are no 2gb 79xx cards, they went with 3gb because thats what works evenly with 384 bit bus

though im thinking since ram is so cheap theyll prob go straight from 3gb to 6gb

somebody correct me if im wrong

 

[toyota]

It would be a 4.5 gb card next wouldn't it?

384 bit cards have multiples of 1.5gb

that's why there are no 2gb 79xx cards, they went with 3gb because thats what works evenly with 384 bit bus

though im thinking since ram is so cheap theyll prob go straight from 3gb to 6gb

somebody correct me if im wrong

4.5? no. 384 bit will have 768mb, 1.5 gb, 3.0 gb, 6.0 gb and so on unless doing mixed memory.

 

[futurefields]

3gb is more than enough in most situations even including eyefinity.