- Sep 12, 2005
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Ok, am about to pull this trigger next week on a 680 or a 7970 in my gaming rig to upgrade from a 6950....used for dev work and gaming including 5-boxing WoW, which is where the question mostly comes into play.
Looking at the difference between a 2Gb 680 and a 3Gb 7970 (looking at direct cu2 for 6 monitors but can still run 5 on 2 monitors so that's not a major point) and got into a discussion on if the extra speed on the 680 is worth it over the extra framebuffer on the 7970.
It seems to me, that in essence while I'm only running WoW in 1920x1080 I am still running 5 of them at that res at the same time and so the memory usage and total pixel count will be a lot more than running a single client at 2560 or even running 1080p eyefinity/nvsurround so the extra memory would be of more benefit than a slightly faster card but I'm not sure, hence asking here for advice.
Looking at the difference between a 2Gb 680 and a 3Gb 7970 (looking at direct cu2 for 6 monitors but can still run 5 on 2 monitors so that's not a major point) and got into a discussion on if the extra speed on the 680 is worth it over the extra framebuffer on the 7970.
It seems to me, that in essence while I'm only running WoW in 1920x1080 I am still running 5 of them at that res at the same time and so the memory usage and total pixel count will be a lot more than running a single client at 2560 or even running 1080p eyefinity/nvsurround so the extra memory would be of more benefit than a slightly faster card but I'm not sure, hence asking here for advice.