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

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
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Could you tell me what 3GB@384bit cards are available at 7870's price point, and what to do if a 7870 is at the top end of a person's budget?
 
Tonester0011 said:
The 2GB AMD cards aint as powerful as the Nvidia counterparts :D

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::p
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spoffle said:
Ah more sperging.

Could you tell me what 3GB@384bit cards are available at 7870's price point, and what to do if a 7870 is at the top end of a person's budget?
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You can not have it both ways

Spoffle you are busted for bias

You will be pointing out to anyone looking to xfire HD 7870s what you think the vram pitfalls of this are, you will won't you?

Spoffle you are busted for bias.
 
No he's not Kap, he never mentioned anything about AMD's/Nvidia's lesser cards, only 256/384bit cards in direct comparison/pricepoints was the discussion at hand.

Can we change the record now?:)
 
tommybhoy said:
No he's not Kap, he never mentioned anything about AMD's/Nvidia's lesser cards, only 256/384bit cards in direct comparison/pricepoints was the discussion at hand.

Can we change the record now?:)
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The important question is, is 2gb/256bit enough or not. It is not about brands or particular cards.
 
Ill take a few fps for Windows 7 thanks! Unless there is some awesome graphical feature or you are running 120fps and getting 115 i would not even bat an eyelid at this.

Windows XP is still faster and has less microstutter for god sake.And they want more money from me over Windows 7?



PS Will Battlefield 4 be truly next gen and feature bind able side mouse buttons? I spent £60 on BF3 Premium and was shocked to find that to this day you still cannot bind a side mouse button.Thats the last time EA get a penny from me!
 
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Kaapstad said:
The important question is, is 2gb/256bit enough or not. It is not about brands or particular cards.
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Are you suggesting that he should tell people on a midrange budget not to buy any card at all, given there are none available at that spec (3GB/384bit) below £200? :)
 
teppic said:
Are you suggesting that he should tell people on a midrange budget not to buy any card at all, given there are none available at that spec (3GB/384bit) below £200? :)
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He is the one saying 2gb is not enough, so for anyone using xfire (if he thinks he is right) he should be giving the same advice to as he does about NVidia cards.

Fortunately I don't think he is correct and as far as I am concerned people can carry on buying 2gb AMD cards (or NVidia) for use on a single monitor without worry.:)
 
Kaapstad said:
The important question is, is 2gb/256bit enough or not. It is not about brands or particular cards.
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Kaapstad said:
He is the one saying 2gb is not enough, so for anyone using xfire (if he thinks he is right) he should be giving the same advice to as he does about NVidia cards.

Fortunately I don't think he is correct and as far as I am concerned people can carry on buying 2gb AMD cards (or NVidia) for use on a single monitor without worry.:)
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It's not enough regardless it be red or green gpus, the difference being, someone using 7850's 2GB/256bit is going for the most fps their monies can get- that's a far differing scenario than a direct comparison between 79's and 67/80/770's- which has been discussed from the off.

Security with peace of mind on a higher specced card(should I choose to hold onto them and skip the next wave)were what kept me on team red again-not to mention 2x7950's costing way less than a single 680 at time of purchase.

They 100% won't run out of ram before the considerably more expensive 6 series will and give me higher playable settings on my multi gpu setup.

If the 780 is anything to go by with what performance AMD will put on the table for ~£450-550, then I won't be forced to have to change gpu's as titles become more demanding in the tic-toc style of things:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18344284&page=10
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I've been gaming on PC's too long now to be stung by the 'here's just enough for today approach', biggest example was when BF3 released, folks with 1 GB 560's SLI setup which had more than ample gpu grunt couldn't cut it and were given a massive slap in the face as they needed to upgrade them to play max AA@1080p-which the comparable 2GB 6950 CrossFire setup could-despite the exact same argument then as there is now ....


From my point of view, I don't need to change my 7950's this round just for the sake of it, I only change them out should I choose to-not out of necessity.

I purchase with an eye on tomorrow and purchase wisely.




But regardless what anyone thinks is enough/not enough, bottom line push the slider to suit, you should be able to play BF4 in some capacity as long as you don't have a right minger of a gpu.:D
 
i dont get why you all are getting so worked up its just a shiney bf3.

so if you can play bf3 comfortably now you fine.
 
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