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HD 6950 1gb or 2gb

Gargx1

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I'm planning on upgrading my GTX 460 to an HD 6950 but is there that much of a difference between the 1gb version and the 2gb.

I was originally going to SLI my 460 but then found out that my mobo (Gigabyte P55) is a crossfire board...Doh! (that's what i get for not researching it properly)

So I'm thinking get a single 6950 and go crossfire when they drop in price after the 7xxx series comes out.

Rest of my system is an i5 760, 8gb Corsair xms, Corsair AX 750w psu. Still running Win Vista 64bit.
 
2Gb.

There are already games that 'require' it.

Shogun 2
Dragons Age 2

No doubt countless other as well.

Plus if you went for xfire in the future you wouldnt be vram limited with 2x2Gb cards.
 
Have you checked your motherboard will run 2 cards at x16 or x8 speeds?

If it's one of the boards which runs the second slot at x4 then that may have a detrimental effect on performance.
 
yes thats correct, and personally, i wouldnt bother with the 2gb version.
the 2gb card will only help with higher resolutions, you will only gain a few fps over the 1gb card.
 
If you can easily afford it, then sure, go for the 2GB. Since you are making a thread about it I am assuming you can just about afford the 2GB. Like the guy near the top said, some games now require it and loads others will too. If you want to plan for the future a little then going for the 2GB wouldn't be a bad move.
 
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If you are going to do CrossfireX in the future then 2GB is a much better choice, especially if £20 cannot afford to date a girl once.
 
If you are planning to play BF3, then you are going to need as much vram as possible as Dice have highly optimized the engine for PC's!

Crysis 2 eats ~1.5 Gb vram due to high res texture pack and dx11 heavy on the tessalation(badly done):

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That's the amount in Xfire(half it).

Even if you don't change gpu every year to high end gpus then go for the 2Gb one, trust me youll need it.

If you can stretch your budget for the 2Gb easy enough then do it!
 
While people would keep stressing the importance of having more ram, they keep forgetting to address basic thing like going from the GTX460 to the 6950 wouldn't be much of an upgrading, especially costing £120 extra after selling the card...

Nobody is arguing that games are not starting to need more VRAM, but the upgrading from a previous gen mid-range to current gen middle-range simple won't give much extra performance, and is quite poor return for the investment. People should be sticking with the good old upgrading every two gens approach if they already got something like GTX460 1GB/6850/6870/5850/5870 and wait for 7000 series if they can't stretching their budget to getting either a GTX570 2.5GB or GTX580 3GB right now.
 
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