Cant find reviews on any of the 2048mb 460gtx cards. Do you think they will be like a normal 460gtx but will handle higher res better or is the extra 1024mb a waste? Price is pretty good for a 2048mb card. Palit sonic is at £200, good value.
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460gtx 2048mb reviews.
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Unlikely to make a difference but hard to tell, Nvidia have higher mem usage than AMD, significantly often, but its still unlikely to make a difference.
The 2gb vs 1gb 5870 basically only makes a difference in a few games at eyefinity triple screen res, even then its not a huge difference in most situations. Theres maybe one game at 2560x1600 + high aa that the 2gb card has an advantage.
Now theres potential that Nvidia might run into the memory limit a little earlier, but I can't see it happening when realistically the 460gtx is in its prime anyway. Its not a bad card by any means, but its not a card I'd be using for 2560x1600 anyway.
Cheapest 460gtx 1gb is still the card to buy, though if its only £10 more that tells you two things, if it gave noticeable performance increase, it wouldn't be £10 more
But you might have better luck selling it as no matter how fast it is, or isn't, people like bigger numbers. I'm sure you could sell it for £10 more than a 1gb one when the time came.
Of course, if more memory overclocks worse, or uses enough power to make the core overclock less far, I'd be going for the 1gb version.
The 2gb vs 1gb 5870 basically only makes a difference in a few games at eyefinity triple screen res, even then its not a huge difference in most situations. Theres maybe one game at 2560x1600 + high aa that the 2gb card has an advantage.
Now theres potential that Nvidia might run into the memory limit a little earlier, but I can't see it happening when realistically the 460gtx is in its prime anyway. Its not a bad card by any means, but its not a card I'd be using for 2560x1600 anyway.
Cheapest 460gtx 1gb is still the card to buy, though if its only £10 more that tells you two things, if it gave noticeable performance increase, it wouldn't be £10 more
But you might have better luck selling it as no matter how fast it is, or isn't, people like bigger numbers. I'm sure you could sell it for £10 more than a 1gb one when the time came.Of course, if more memory overclocks worse, or uses enough power to make the core overclock less far, I'd be going for the 1gb version.
Nvidia has 3d surround. you think because theres 3 monitors and effectively 2 images on each monitor you would want more memory? maybe thats what the 2gb cards where made for. But no reviews or info about why they where made etc so its a guess why theres 2gb versions.
as said there about £10-£20 more expensive so SLIing them would be better.
I never understood the fascination with more vRAM than a graphics chip could realistically use in most conditions. Wasn't this a marketing trick to lure in gullible customers to buy (say) a Radeon 9200 over a Radeon 9800? What's worse is, in lower end cards that memory would often come in clocked lower, and\or with a narrower interface to the graphics core.
I saw nil difference in 95% of cases between a 512MB Radeon HD4870 and a 1GB Radeon HD4870. I have reason to believe the same is true of my 256MB Geforce 7950GT versus the 512MB version. The chip will run out of steam before the framebuffer fills up. Why else would ATI have made 256MB versions of the HD38xx cards if they weren't going to sell?
2GB on a mid-high range graphics card at this point is a needless expense.
I saw nil difference in 95% of cases between a 512MB Radeon HD4870 and a 1GB Radeon HD4870. I have reason to believe the same is true of my 256MB Geforce 7950GT versus the 512MB version. The chip will run out of steam before the framebuffer fills up. Why else would ATI have made 256MB versions of the HD38xx cards if they weren't going to sell?
2GB on a mid-high range graphics card at this point is a needless expense.
The only reason I could see for it is when in SLI and running a surround set-up, where the extra memory might be useful. Even then I suspect it wouldn't be - 2 1GB 5870s run 3 1920x1080 monitors absolutely fine, and they're limited to 1GB between the cards.