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GTX260 with 1792mb of VRAM
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SlowSpyder
Lifer
Pretty soon graphics cards will use all the space available in a 32bit OS. 🙂
Arkaign
Lifer
Well, there's a match that makes sense with powerful GPUs and enough Ram.
A 1GB 7800GT wouldn't have made much sense, as anything requiring that much video memory would have likely crawled on that GPU.
Nearly 2GB on a 260GTX seems odd at this time. ~2GB cards will make a lot more sense when power increases in GPU ability speed up again. We've been pretty stagnant for a while now, that will change when the true next-gens replace the Radeon 4000s and GTX 200s.
Denithor
Diamond Member
Actually there are some cases already where that could be beneficial.
Crysis Warhead on High quality at 25x16 & 2AA grinds even TripleSLI GTX 280 cards to a near halt (linky). If you look at the 19x12 spot under the same settings, the single GTX 280 runs 32fps, dual SLI GTX 280 runs 50fps and triple SLI GTX 280 runs 55fps (so you see increases from more GPU power). At 25x16 all three run 14-17 fps so no real difference, they're obviously hamstrung (and the article authors blame it on inadequate memory).
Crysis Warhead on High quality at 25x16 & 2AA grinds even TripleSLI GTX 280 cards to a near halt (linky). If you look at the 19x12 spot under the same settings, the single GTX 280 runs 32fps, dual SLI GTX 280 runs 50fps and triple SLI GTX 280 runs 55fps (so you see increases from more GPU power). At 25x16 all three run 14-17 fps so no real difference, they're obviously hamstrung (and the article authors blame it on inadequate memory).
SlowSpyder
Lifer
Not sure if I'm reading that right or not, but at 25x16 a single 4870x2 is getting 24FPS in comparisson. I think the ultra low scores you're seeing are a driver/SLI issue more then a memory issue. That is assuming I'm reading that right.
AzN
Banned
That's because 512mb of vram was boarder line @ 1920.
GTX 260 is good for 1920x tops. Now why would you add more memory on a GTX 260? 896mb is enough for that resolution and then some. It's nothing more than a marketing gimmick much like all those noobs buying up the card with most memory because they think it's somehow more powerful than the card with less memory when all that vram is just sitting there doing jack.
toyota
Lifer
1gb is a waste if its on a card that cant utilize it. hell there was a time when 512mb and 256mb would have been a waste too you know.
a gtx260 would almost never encounter a situation where 896mb of ram isnt enough because the rest of the card lacks the power to run a game at such resolutions and settings.
alcoholbob
Diamond Member
Well if you are on XP you're really shafted with this card since you max out at 1.5GB of RAM.
alcoholbob
Diamond Member
The addressing space isn't dynamic. You boot up and the space is addressed.
In XP with my SLI setup (2 x 1GB cards) I see about 1.5GB of RAM even though I have 6 gigs.
In XP with my SLI setup (2 x 1GB cards) I see about 1.5GB of RAM even though I have 6 gigs.
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