| Captain_Tom said: What makes you so sure? I have a 7970 that still plays EVERY game on Ultra maxed out. Hell the 7970 GHz Benches like a 780 now because of how forward-thinking AMD is with their architectures, and the 7950 beats a 680 when it used to lose to a 670. Who is to say that in 2 years the 290 couldn't be benching close to a 980 while the 290X trades blows with a 980 Ti? By no means am I saying it will happen, but weirder things have happened...
Oh and your VRAM comments make me remember 3 years ago when everyone said "You don't even need any more than 1GB of VRAM anyways!" Now all of those 580's are struggling to keep up with 6970's... |
All I'm saying that VRAM will be the least problem of the cards. It just doesn't have such a profound effect you want to make it sound like. Please read the article you posted for yourself. The effects are minimal and in the single digits. You sound like someone who wants to make a Pentium III PC faster by putting more RAM in it.
Your 7970 plays every game maxed out on 30 fps. That's no standard. 60fps or go home. Your 7970 is not able to do that on current games, hell even the 980 struggles with that at in certain extreme cases. 970 barely keeps the status quo today. It won't be able to play any games properly 2 years in the future even if it had 200GB of RAM and a 1025 bit memory interface.
And that the 290X will ever come close to the 980ti is absolute garbage. Do you even know what you are talking about? Big Maxwell will have about the same RAM and memory bandwidth as the 290X while massively surpassing it in everything else. Please educate yourself before making such "predictions".
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