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768mb VRAM enough?

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

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I'm looking into a new video card and one option is a cracking deal on a 460, but t's the 768mb version. I don't intend to play games like BF3 (which from what I understand use more than 1gb VRAM). Currently only on a 1280 x 1024 monitor, but I'm looking to get a nice 1920 x 1080 soonish if that makes any difference.

I don't really bother with a lot of newer PC games to be honest, the newest I have is Skyrim.

With the 768mb 460 I could be ordering straight away, then selling my current card on to fund a new monitor for example. Where-as, if I went for the 1GB 460, I'd have to sell it, wait for someone to buy it and have no graphics for however long.

Will I regret only having 768mb of VRAM later?
 
Yes, you will regret it, as soon as you move to 1920x1080.

My advice would be to get hold of a 2gb card now, forget the monitor till you can afford it, the AMD 7850 would be a good choice in regards to moving on to a 1920x1080 at a later date.
 
I personally would sell your current card (what ever it is) and go without a GPU for a bit. 768 is low and Skyrim will show how low it is when you upgrade your monitor.
 
well i just ordered a 6850 1gb .. i think i all depends on how much teh quality is ramped up. i dont spend £400 on cards these days . i think this si still good value
 
Currently the the GTX 550 Ti (not too bad, didn't pay much for it).

The 7850 does seem nice, but at a smidge over £190 it's out of my price range for now. I have about £50 right now to spend on the computer (with a bit of borrowing I'd have had that GTX 460 768mb from the clearance section), or around £125 if I can sell my current card (assuming I got that for it).

Guess I better save some more money and get a card and monitor together?
 
768Mb on a graphics card is such a huge bottleneck. I barely get 21FPS on Uniengine 3.0 @ 1080P, 4x AA/AF, Normal Tesselation. A 7850 can get over 60FPS OC'd with the same settings, essentially 3x faster (in comparing benchmarks myself). It's not just due to being significantly faster, it's the amount of available RAM and the 256bit bus speed.
 
to be fair to the op he has stated he doesn't play cuttign edge gaming to much .. he rough;y in my boat , but slightly ahead .... the new monitor he will buy will last a lot longer than his graphics card will . so a cheap upgrade will do for him for now , and if he wants to he can improve further if he wants in time
 
Skyrim will need much more Vram if you mod it. If you run it without mods 768 Mb will be plenty.

Unmodded skyrim, Diablo 3, Guildwars 2, Torchlight 2 won't need more than 768 Mb vram, its all dependant on what you use your PC for. You wouldn't tell someone who only plays farmville that they need a 7970.

IMO the only price that a 768 Mb GTX 460 is worth now is £50. Any more than that an a 6850 is too much better.
 
I use the PC mainly for gaming and general browsing, my Steam library (or rather games I play semi regularly) currently consists of Skyrim, Mount & Blade Collection, TF2, Mafia II, Magicka, MS Flight, Oddboxx and Portal One.

Out of the "recent" games I'm only really interested in Mass Effect 3, Risen 2, Guild Wars 2.

I've had a quick google and found this http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2529413 High pre-set with AA down to 2x seems ok, especially with the HD textures installed. That sounds good to me?

I spend a fair bit of time playing MMO's, so if the card couldn't handle a game I could just play the MMO's until I got a new card.

Edit: Card is gone from Clearance, just my luck that. Guess I'll save for something else.
 
I've had my GTX 460 768MB for a while now, and running @ 850/2000 since I've had it it's still fine at 1980 x 1080 resolution in games like Battlefield 3 at more than playable frame rates at a mix of medium/high settings without stuttering from lack of VRAM. It's not perfect but totally playable with decent graphics!

I also play Fifa 12 which is fine maxed out on everything, and World of Warcraft which is on a mix of High/Ultra settings it only really hits 30 FPS or so in 25 player raids with masses of spell graphics flying over the screen, otherwise it stays between 50 - 60 fps at most times.

I wouldn't personally buy that card if I was buying now, but I guess it depends just how cheap it was and if I was on a really tight budget.
 
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