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2GB 6850 VS 768mb GTX 460

I think Sapphire do one, but they may be the only manufactuer to offer it, more of a custom model than a reference design.
 
Deception said:
This is a comparison between the 1gb 6850 and a 460 768mb.

6850vs460

I guess the 2GB memory would come in handy in games like BF3 and any memory hungry games. How is your 460 fairing at the moment in terms of gaming, is it struggling at all?
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Its going ok.

Skyrim is struggling a little though.

Running on high, getting a steady 50+ fps outside, but in towns im usually seeing around 25-35 fps. Assumed this was because im lacking the vram?
 
Sleeven88 said:
Skyrim is struggling a little though.

Running on high, getting a steady 50+ fps outside, but in towns im usually seeing around 25-35 fps. Assumed this was because im lacking the vram?
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Check the GPU usage during scenes that you get lower frame rate...Skyrim seem to be held back by only using 2 CPU cores or something.
 
If you can, wait for AMD's new gpu's. If you can't, I don't think you'd see enough of a performance increase to warrant the move, so I'd recommend aiming a little higher, budget and cpu permitting of course. :)
 
More VRAM would definitely help - a fair few games are easily using 600-800MB these days, I'd try and go for something a bit faster than a 6850 if you can tho so as to see more of an upgrade for your money.
 
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