GTX 580 1.5 GB v GTX 580 3GB?

[andybird123]

Ive seen bf3 use 1800mb on caspian 64 player... i was getting a stutter with a 1.5 and now i have a 3gb its gone, completely smooth on ultra

 

[Jakus]

Thats because crysis 2 doesnt support triple buffering, so ofc it won't run smoothly with vsync enabled...

You can try and disprove me all you want, yet I've owned both cards and its definitely a smoother experience on the 3gb models.

I should not have mentioned anything about v-sync, I don't have the benchmarks to hand but min fps was down to 9 or so, you are technically correct it does appear very slightly smoother but my point is for the massive cost the gains are essentially insignificant and still not nicely playable.

 

[kalyyy]

i will make screens on crysis 2 dx11 with 1.5gb and a 3gb, same performance, same graphics, same gameplay, the game uses more vram that it needs why people don't want to understand?

"Ive seen bf3 use 1800mb on caspian 64 player... i was getting a stutter with a 1.5 and now i have a 3gb its gone, completely smooth on ultra"

False again, same gameplay with 1.5gb and 3gb let me test again on some maps with 64 players

 

[Jakus]

i will make screens on crysis 2 dx11 with 1.5gb and a 3gb, same performance, same graphics, same gameplay, the game uses more vram that it needs why people don't want to understand?

"Ive seen bf3 use 1800mb on caspian 64 player... i was getting a stutter with a 1.5 and now i have a 3gb its gone, completely smooth on ultra"

False again, same gameplay with 1.5gb and 3gb let me test again on some maps with 64 players

Screens of the crysis 2 benchmark with both cards would be interesting, I assume You have the benchmark tool ?

 

[Final8y]

i will make screens on crysis 2 dx11 with 1.5gb and a 3gb, same performance, same graphics, same gameplay, the game uses more vram that it needs why people don't want to understand?

"Ive seen bf3 use 1800mb on caspian 64 player... i was getting a stutter with a 1.5 and now i have a 3gb its gone, completely smooth on ultra"

False again, same gameplay with 1.5gb and 3gb let me test again on some maps with 64 players

If he was saying he was getting stutter with 1.5 and now i have a 3gb its gone, completely smooth on ultra" doses not mean its false because its not stuttering with 1.5 on your setup.

This is PCs not Consoles.

 

[James J]

I should not have mentioned anything about v-sync, I don't have the benchmarks to hand but min fps was down to 9 or so, you are technically correct it does appear very slightly smoother but my point is for the massive cost the gains are essentially insignificant and still not nicely playable.

Sure if you take cost into consideration, even I'd say its not worth it at a small res, yet if you don't, why not

 

[oweneades]

Ive seen bf3 use 1800mb on caspian 64 player... i was getting a stutter with a 1.5 and now i have a 3gb its gone, completely smooth on ultra

So have I.... at 3560x1920....

It is well known that BF3 caches every bit of information it can to Vram therefore making the actual Vram usage hard to calculate.

In my case it really was using 1800+MB of Vram because I run such a large resolution. In your case it *could* have been actually using that much - which would cause stuttering on a 1.5GB GTX580 OR it could have just been caching a certain amount meaning it was actually using less than 1800MB meaning game play was perfectly smooth on a 1.5GB GTX580.

There are so many variables in play here you can't simply say the stutter was just caused by Vram.

 

[Final8y]

So have I.... at 3560x1920....

It is well known that BF3 caches every bit of information it can to Vram therefore making the actual Vram usage hard to calculate.

In my case it really was using 1800+MB of Vram because I run such a large resolution. In your case it *could* have been actually using that much - which would cause stuttering on a 1.5GB GTX580 OR it could have just been caching a certain amount meaning it was actually using less than 1800MB meaning game play was perfectly smooth on a 1.5GB GTX580.

There are so many variables in play here you can't simply say the stutter was just caused by Vram.

Well he can say that in his case because if that's the only thing he changed was the same version of a card from 1.5GB to 3GB and it played smoother, it does not matter what the extra 300MB usage contained, in his case having it in Vram instead of system ram made it smoother on his setup.


When i was using 4 and 8 GB of ram on my system before, 8GB was more responsive (more in superfetch and less paging out)and snapper than using 4GB, now that i have SSD the responsiveness between 4GB and 8GB is less noticeable on some things.