Which 760? Or possibly a better option??

[Luke_Bowman]

Currently looking at the Gigabyte 760 WindForce 3x 4gb version as an upgrade for a friend.

He set his budget at the mark for the card which is £240 currently and he's looking at it to run Battlefield 4 which warrants the extra vram over the 2gb version.

He wants to overclock using default software but nothing major and it'll be run on air.

Could he be spending his money more wisely? Consulted my own knowledge but OcUk always seems to know best

 

[Drangueos]

If he really wants a nvidia card with 4gb of ram I would go for the 670, but I think a 7950/70 would be a better choice.

 

[kefan77]

HD7970

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-273-AS

 

[Gibbo]

4GB pointless unless your running some kind of specific application or photo/video rendering.

If you get a game which needs that amount of RAM, the GPU shall be falling behind to power such a resolution.

3GB and greater is only really any use on 770 and above or 79xx series.

 

[humbug]

Any objections going with a 7950? less than £200, has 3GB of vRam and is faster than the 760 in reality.

Or I think you can get a 7970 for £240...

you can http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-273-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938

And http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-311-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938

Much faster than the 760 ^^^

If its for BF4 you might be better off going AMD anyway, especially if Mantle lives up to what it should do.

 

[Cooper]

4GB pointless unless your running some kind of specific application or photo/video rendering.

..not really, a 4GB 760 will be a good card for all the PS4 and Xbox ports heading over to the PC in the next few years.

 

[kefan77]

also, it won't hurt if you mentioned the rest of his system.

..not really, a 4GB 760 will be a good card for all the PS4 and Xbox ports heading over to the PC in the next few years.

it won't be.

 

[Cooper]

it won't be.

..very informative

 

[Luke_Bowman]

Thanks for all the posts guys, I'll pass the information onto him. Jealous that you can snap up at 7970 for £240 now when I bought my 7950 at a very similar price though

 

[kefan77]

..very informative

you got the reasons why mentioned above. I didn't want to repeat them, but if you have trouble understanding those, I sure can.

 

[Gibbo]

..not really, a 4GB 760 will be a good card for all the PS4 and Xbox ports heading over to the PC in the next few years.

It won't.

As to use more than 2GB of VRAM you need resolutions such as 1440P or 1600P or even 4k with very high quality or large texture maps.

Unfortunately at these kind of resolutions with textures on high/ultra of that size the GPU would never be powerful enough to render that many pixels.

The most important aspect of a graphics card is GPU power, then VRAM.

Any console ports will take advantage of PC higher quality image ability, texture ability and resolution, which at 1440P/1600P and higher will require a lot more raw power than the 760 GPU can offer, remember a 760 is a little slower than a GTX 670.

This is why GTX 770 and HD79xx upwards should be 3GB minimum or more as their raw horsepower is greater, so 4GB 770 is just about worth it, though 7970 3GB is better value.

Example a GTX 780 with 2GB would be dumb, this is why NVIDIA made the move to more VRAM on their more powerful cards. NVIDIA never launched a 4GB 760, their add in board partners did.