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I play at 1080p and interested in 120hz, any game with an additional screen for browsing. Does 2gb graphics card limit me? 4gb offer anythin?
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2gb or 4gb vram?
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So bf3 + an additional screen for browsing wont use over 2gb vram? Im looking at fps and guild wars 2, so there is no need for 4gb ?
Right now for 1080p 2gb.
On Nvidia cards (by their own admission) BF3 uses up to 1.5gb vram.
BF4? could prove to be a whole different entity, but I suppose it depends what you are looking for. If you want a very fast card and don't care about a year/eighteen months from now? 2gb is more than enough for right now.
If, however, you expected a five year life out of a 2gb 680 for your hard earned beans? you may end up disappointed.
On Nvidia cards (by their own admission) BF3 uses up to 1.5gb vram.
BF4? could prove to be a whole different entity, but I suppose it depends what you are looking for. If you want a very fast card and don't care about a year/eighteen months from now? 2gb is more than enough for right now.
If, however, you expected a five year life out of a 2gb 680 for your hard earned beans? you may end up disappointed.
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Ask yourself a few questions...
1. Cards may report high VRAM useage - how efficiently are they being used, are they releasing memory when they should?
2. How long have developers had cards with >2GB VRAM, how long will it take before games are out of development that make full use of it?
3. When most games are developed for PC and console together in the main, will this speed up or slow down the need to move to higher VRAM on cards?
4. Will publishers really want to stop you playing a game, albeit at lower quality, purely because you don't have the latest card with the maximum amount of memory.
A lot of scaremongering on this subject...
1. Cards may report high VRAM useage - how efficiently are they being used, are they releasing memory when they should?
2. How long have developers had cards with >2GB VRAM, how long will it take before games are out of development that make full use of it?
3. When most games are developed for PC and console together in the main, will this speed up or slow down the need to move to higher VRAM on cards?
4. Will publishers really want to stop you playing a game, albeit at lower quality, purely because you don't have the latest card with the maximum amount of memory.
A lot of scaremongering on this subject...
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Most ppl have about 1GB. So if devs want to sell games, those games have to work on those cards. 2GB is plenty.
They do work but it means lowering settings. The game industry moves along slowly enough as it is without taking mid and low end cards into account.
But when you spend £440 or so you don't want to have to lower any settings.
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Its still not much clearer lol. How much extra vram does an extra screen for browsing use?
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120hz require more vram also?
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practically nothing
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Put the extra £125 (assuming it's a GTX680- and that's over approx 25% towards another top line card) in to a fund for a new card for when you really do need it, and get a more powerful GPU then.
And the GPU will still struggle miles before the VRAM.