Best mid price ranged SLI cards?

arekgreenman888 · 14 Apr 2012 at 03:57

olivier renault said:
I'd get a 7850 / 7870, single. Note that your VRAM doesn't double with SLI / XFire. All in all, I would get a 2GB single card.

Why does 2x7850 does not double to 4gb ram?

IvanDobskey · 14 Apr 2012 at 08:05

arekgreenman888 said:
Why does 2x7850 does not double to 4gb ram?

Because both cards need a copy of the same data in VRAM. So effectively you only have 2Gb.

Ollie1132 · 14 Apr 2012 at 09:10

It's the way graphics processing works, or rather one of the methods of graphics processing at least.

arekgreenman888 · 14 Apr 2012 at 16:34

IvanDobskey said:
Because both cards need a copy of the same data in VRAM. So effectively you only have 2Gb.

so how come if you have 2x480 with 1280 each then both = 2500gb memory?

Stinger53 · 14 Apr 2012 at 16:35

the memory doesnt double if u xfire/sli cards

so how come if you have 2x480 with 1280 each then both = 2500gb memory?

the memory with the two cards is still 1280.

newbieclocker · 14 Apr 2012 at 16:39

People forget that if you choose SLI the lifespan of the cards will be longer as it spreads the stress between two cards.