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disolitude on 08 July 2013
Pemalite said:
lt_dan_27 said:


So according to your evidence (the "recommended" settings), a 620 with 1gb ram could max out bf4. And saying that it will use less than 2gb is just stupid when many games last year were getting close (yes, even on beloved nvidia cards). BF3 can use 2 at times, which basically confirms the BF4 will. If you look at any evidence, you'll see that it's going to use more. Especially in a 3 monitor set up. 


The memory requirements for Battlefield 3 are a non issue.
The performance difference between a Radeon 6950 1gb vs a Radeon 6950 2gb is non-existent in Battlefield 3, seems the bottleneck isn't the memory amount with that specific game and I really don't see that changing with Battlefield 3.5, er.. 4 either.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2011/11/10/battlefield-3-technical-analysis/4
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4137/amds-gtx-560-ti-counteroffensive-radeon-hd-6950-1gb-xfxs-radeon-hd-6870-black-edition/5

The only time you will see positive gains moving from a 1gb card to a 2gb card is if you are throwing insane amounts of Anti-Aliasing, or using a 1440/1600/120hz/Eyefinity/Surround display set-up in Battlefield 3.
But you shouldn't be using 1gb cards with such displays anyway as high-end cards have been 2gb+ for the last few years.

Everything here is absolutely correct appart from 1 small detail. 120hz gaming doesnt utilize any extra memory. All the lifting is done by the GPU pushing the extra frames with the same textures, so no extra VRAM is used or needed...just crazy amounts of GPU horsepower.