ultima said:
disolitude said:
ultima said:
disolitude said:
I don't think there was any doubt this was going to happen.
However if they put 6 GB of RAM on it (3 GB per GPU) its a big misfire... A card like that will need more VRAM to be utilized properly. There is no point getting this if you're gaming @1080p and at Nvidia surround/4k resolutions, some games are pushing close to 3 GB already.
In my opinion, the most "futureproof" GPU from Nvidia right now (not counting the Titan which is the king but too expensive) is the gtx 770 4GB version. 2 of those in SLI and you are well under 1000 dollars spent and have plenty of VRAM to run Nvidia surround for years to come. |
So 6 GB of RAM isn't enough, but 4 GB is okay for years to come?
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Yep thats what Im saying...because dual GPU cards share the RAM. Meaning that a GTX 790 with 6GB of RAM would have 3 GB of RAM per GPU. 3GB per GPU is not enough for a card that is much more powerful than GTX 770 which has 4 GB.
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Wait a minute, these double cards work pretty much the same way as SLI? As in the memory pool isn't shared, but rather mirrored? Very lame if true...
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Yeah its kind of unfortunate. Someone out there just bought a GTX 690 4GB for $1000 dollars and is about to try to play Bioshock infinite on 3 monitors with cranked MSAA. This is a game with somewhat low GPU usage requirements and GTX 690 can max it out in theory...but BAM, VRAM limit wall hits.
Not so fast Jimmy...Not so fast.
