G71 specs according to Vr-Zone

[firewolfsm]

FEAR uses 380MB and Quake 4 uses more than Doom III, 512MB is already seeing use, but mostly at higher resolutions with more AA, 1280x1024 should be fine for a while

 

[BFG10K]

In the few games it does help, its usually well under a 10% boost.

If you hit an area where it makes a difference it'll often boost performance much more than 10%.

 

[classy]

Looking at those specs looks a little strange. The core clock difference is huge. 200mhz? If this is the same core that is a pretty hefty difference, that makes me wonder if the top model won't be as "ghostly" as the 7800 512 gtx.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

In the few games it does help, its usually well under a 10% boost.

If you hit an area where it makes a difference it'll often boost performance much more than 10%.

Link?

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

How much are the 2 extra vertex shader pipes and 8 ROPs going to help performance? Most people seem to believe that pixel shader operations are where the bottleneck is occuring in most games. The extra 8 pixel pipes will help there, but at a high cost.

 

[Munky]

The benefits of 512mb vram

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: munky
The benefits of 512mb vram

:thumbsup: good article, it appears ATi benefits a lot more than NV does from 512MB.

I had only seen Nvidia numbers in the past, which reflected very weak gains (as does this article, less than 10% across the board).

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: munky
The benefits of 512mb vram

Thanks for the link munky. I had no idea that there were so many games that actually saw an increase in performance with more than 256MB of ram.

 

[zephyrprime]

Originally posted by: yacoubAye, I knew that much, I just didn't realize games weren't yet taking advantage of more than 256MB of video RAM. I thought when you cranked up settings on FEAR, CoD2, SplinterCell:CT, etc, you were running past 256MB already.

Yeah, I would think that too. I don't really know how many textures some of these newer games are using.