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So you thought 6gb VRAM was overkill? Enter Sapphire Vapor-X R9-290x

Avenged7Fold said:
The same as before. It is interesting for benching high res but the extra vram is deadweight for overclocking . The price premium it will come with will be hard to justify.
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I would say at least 8GHZ up from 7GHZ does not seem poor on a Titan which is not made for benching or primary gaming BTW.

I know there is a certain person here who thinks cards should have 1-2GB of VRam Max so he can bench all day but that is not real life use.

As for price for the Titan well its a lot cheaper for a person using it for pro use than a full priced Tesla/Quadro.
 
3GB is pretty much the sweetspot for this gen. It is only triple screens and 4K that could do with more and even then, you will need a couple or more GPU's to power the big resolutions.
 
Gregster said:
3GB is pretty much the sweetspot for this gen. It is only triple screens and 4K that could do with more and even then, you will need a couple or more GPU's to power the big resolutions.
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I hope there will be waterblocks for the card as it will take 3 or 4 up in CF to get the most out of 4K.
 
Sounds like a pointless card to me, by the time a 4GB vram limit is making a material difference to framerates at 4k people will be on new cards anyway.
 
8GB is a brick load of VRAM. It's a monster card but as someone has rightfully pointed out on the last page it is a dead weight. I would only consider these for 4K or 4K surround. On the other hand if you're not a keen bencher and don't want to flex FPS scores this card may just well make Titan Black look a little out of place if it comes in at the right price. I have a feeling it won't though.
 
MjFrosty said:
8GB is a brick load of VRAM. It's a monster card but as someone has rightfully pointed out on the last page it is a dead weight. I would only consider these for 4K or 4K surround. On the other hand if you're not a keen bencher and don't want to flex FPS scores this card may just well make Titan Black look a little out of place if it comes in at the right price. I have a feeling it won't though.
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I think pricewise we could be looking at £650

Performance wise comparing it to a Titan Black would be much the same as comparing a 4gb 290X to a 780ti.

So it would be the same question is the extra performance on the Titan Black worth the extra £150.
 
Sounds like a fair bet on price. 8GB is just an astonishing amount of VRAM though. I was literally hours before that got posted talking with someone about 4K and saying a 290X with 8GBVRAM and Hynx at over 1700 would be the ultimate card :D

You know, if it worked ;)
 
Kaapstad said:
I have not tried it yet but with mantle @1600p maxed I should be getting quite close going on how they run in DirectX.
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It would be good to see. I am wondering what it will take to get as close to 200fps as a minimum.

With SLI, gaming makes very little use of the 4th card by all accounts and wondering if Mantle lets all 4 work well.
 
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