Battlefield 4 Running DirectX 11.1 Could Give Radeon HD 7000 an Edge

RetrogamerX · 28 Jul 2013 at 07:46

Kaapstad said:
So a AMD card with a 256bit bus and 2gb of vram in xfire is ok but a NVidia card is not.

Spoffle are you going to carry on recommending those 256bit/2gb vram AMD cards ?

Funny stuff

LtMatt · 28 Jul 2013 at 09:14

Kaapstad said:
So a AMD card with a 256bit bus and 2gb of vram in xfire is ok but a NVidia card is not.

Spoffle are you going to carry on recommending those 256bit/2gb vram AMD cards ?

I don't think he's ever said this. Think its time to stop now Kaap.

Kaapstad · 28 Jul 2013 at 14:48

Kaapstad said:
So a AMD card with a 256bit bus and 2gb of vram in xfire is ok but a NVidia card is not.

Spoffle are you going to carry on recommending those 256bit/2gb vram AMD cards ?

I think this is a very fair question

Do you have an answer

Rroff · 28 Jul 2013 at 14:51

Feel like I'm missing something here - how did the whole 256bit/2gb topic come up in the first place?

spoffle · 28 Jul 2013 at 14:53

Kaapstad said:
I think this is a very fair question

Do you have an answer

*yawn*

RetrogamerX · 28 Jul 2013 at 15:02

Rroff said:
Feel like I'm missing something here - how did the whole 256bit/2gb topic come up in the first place?

To make a long story short. spoffle was whining about Nv 256bit/2gb being limited in the future, Kaap was like what about amd 256bit/2gb cards? then bla, bla, bla spoffle had no answer though.

That was short

spoffle · 28 Jul 2013 at 15:08

RetrogamerX said:
To make a long story short. spoffle was whining about Nv 256bit/2gb being limited in the future, Kaap was like what about amd 256bit/2gb cards? then bla, bla, bla spoffle had no answer though.

That was short

It's bizarre how what card people have influences how they perceive things.

On what planet are AMD's 2GB@256bit cards comparable to nVidia's?

They're in completely different price brackets.

Kaapstad knows what he's doing, he's just resorting to strawman tactics yet again.

Martini1991 · 28 Jul 2013 at 15:19

I must have derped all over the floor because the 7870's and 760's aren't really in a different price bracket, there's between 0-30 pound difference between them, and they're both 256 bit.

scotsdragon · 28 Jul 2013 at 15:21

Retro whats your lightning like on BF3?

RetrogamerX · 28 Jul 2013 at 15:23

scotsdragon said:
Retro whats your lightning like on BF3?

I don't play BF3 any more. Bored of it. I play more action 3rd person games or driving mostly. Frame rates are crazy!

scotsdragon · 28 Jul 2013 at 15:27

*thumbs up* well all have to get a game and blow each others heads off lol i vote BF4

spoffle · 28 Jul 2013 at 15:29

Martini1991 said:
I must have derped all over the floor because the 7870's and 760's aren't really in a different price bracket, there's between 0-30 pound difference between them, and they're both 256 bit.

AMD's 2GB@256bit cards are in a completely different price bracket to their 3GB@384bit cards, and the argument from the beginning was "with all things being equal except memory bus and memory quantity, why would you choose the card with lesser memory and a smaller memory bus" in reference to a 770 versus a 7970.

A 760 and 7870 are in completely different price brackets, as the point was AMD's top end 256bit cards versus nVidia's top end 256bit ones.

RetrogamerX · 28 Jul 2013 at 15:35

scotsdragon said:
*thumbs up* well all have to get a game and blow each others heads off lol i vote BF4

Sounds like a plan

I'm really excited about the new splinter cell.

Kaapstad · 28 Jul 2013 at 17:20

spoffle said:
AMD's 2GB@256bit cards are in a completely different price bracket to their 3GB@384bit cards, and the argument from the beginning was "with all things being equal except memory bus and memory quantity, why would you choose the card with lesser memory and a smaller memory bus" in reference to a 770 versus a 7970.

A 760 and 7870 are in completely different price brackets, as the point was AMD's top end 256bit cards versus nVidia's top end 256bit ones.

So are you saying it is ok to xfire 2 HD 7870s and they will not have a problem

Spoffle you are busted for bias.

Final8y · 28 Jul 2013 at 17:36

Kaapstad said:
So are you saying it is ok to xfire 2 HD 7870s and they will not have a problem

Spoffle you are busted for bias.

Yes he is bias but that does not mean its ok to continually put words into his mouth, he never claimed it is ok to xfire 2 HD 7870s or any of the AMD 256 bit/2GB card and there would not be a potential issue.
Its a question you asked because if he had made that claim then there would be no need for you to ask the question, because you could quote him saying it.

spoffle · 28 Jul 2013 at 17:42

Kaapstad said:
So are you saying it is ok to xfire 2 HD 7870s and they will not have a problem

Spoffle you are busted for bias.

When did I say this? :confused:

What the hell are you on about?

Kaapstad · 28 Jul 2013 at 17:53

spoffle said:
When did I say this?

What the hell are you on about?

Whenever you recommend an AMD 2gb card do you ever point out what you think are the limitations with 2gb, the same as you do with NVidia cards.

No you don't

Spoffle you are busted for bias

Tonester0011 · 28 Jul 2013 at 18:00

Kaapstad said:
Whenever you recommend an AMD 2gb card do you ever point out what you think are the limitations with 2gb, the same as you do with NVidia cards.

No you don't

Spoffle you are busted for bias

The 2GB AMD cards aint as powerful as the Nvidia counterparts

Wait, he can't possible use that as a reason?? We've been told more times than my poor little fingers can count GPU grunt and VRAM are not linked and causation doesn't mean correlation. I'm confused :rolleyes:

OptimaLnrg · 28 Jul 2013 at 18:04

Battlefield 3 got boring fast

teppic · 28 Jul 2013 at 18:05

But why would he recommend a 2GB/192bit GTX 660 over a 2GB/256bit 7850?