Which 2GB 6950 would you recommend?

[ManBearPig]

how much you gonna pay for it.

$245 ar

 

[happy medium]

Could you expand on this? In other words how does the GPU speed limit the amount of vram usage?

Sure.

Example:

Take a game like BF3.
A 6950 2gb at ultra settings will use 1.3gb of memory yes, but a 6950 2gb will be running at a non playable 27 fps.

A 6950 2gb running some high and some ultra settings will use 990mb of memory at a playable 40 fps.

But if you add the horsepower of another 6950 you can run the game the ultra settings , using 1.4gb of memory at a playable 40+ fps.

Simply a 5870, 6950, 6870, gtx560ti 384 core gpu does not have the power to give proper framerates when using setting that use more than 1gb of memory.

You need 2 cards to have payable framerates if the settings are turned up to use more than 1gb of memory.

 

[happy medium]

$245 ar

Wait till tomorrow and look at the gtx560 ti 448 core benchmarks if your paying that much for a 6950.

Unless you gonna crossfire or sli 2gb of memory means nothing, 1.25gb is plenty.
I think new cards will be out before you even consider crossfireing or sli.

 

[DrBoss]

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