AMD 6970 Graphics Cards

[MayheM]

Just happened upon this and figured it was appropriate...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/28/rade ... x-east-20/

The GTX 590 sounds like it is going to be a freaking MONSTER!!! 1024 Cores, 3 GB onboard Ram!?! DAMN!

[Dr. Delta]

Just happened upon this and figured it was appropriate...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/28/rade ... x-east-20/

The GTX 590 sounds like it is going to be a freaking MONSTER!!! 1024 Cores, 3 GB onboard Ram!?! DAMN!

Putting more ram in it isn't going to make it faster, it's mainly the ram speed and just the core speed of the gpu which determines the overall performance of a videocard. I've 12GB of ram for my windows, but when i do normal stuff I only use 4-5GB max, so the other GB's are fun to stare at, but they do anything; same goes for the videocard. When you have like a triple monitor setup, with 3d, than those GB's count.

[Gary]

[...] I've 12GB of ram for my windows, but when i do normal stuff I only use 4-5GB max, so the other GB's are fun to stare at,[...].

You need to make 5-7GB RamDisk. Then you got a virtual drive that has insane read/write speed and cleans it's self out every reboot.

[dark0r]

Just happened upon this and figured it was appropriate...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/28/rade ... x-east-20/

The GTX 590 sounds like it is going to be a freaking MONSTER!!! 1024 Cores, 3 GB onboard Ram!?! DAMN!

Putting more ram in it isn't going to make it faster, it's mainly the ram speed and just the core speed of the gpu which determines the overall performance of a videocard. I've 12GB of ram for my windows, but when i do normal stuff I only use 4-5GB max, so the other GB's are fun to stare at, but they do anything; same goes for the videocard. When you have like a triple monitor setup, with 3d, than those GB's count.

Then those GBs count? No they dont :s the only thing related to screen resolution held in graphics memory is the back buffer and the depth buffer. Combined, when at massive resolutions, are no bigger than 10MB.

You could most likely play 3D on triple monitors and only use 1GB of VRAM max.. video memory really matters for storing high resolution textures like those in Crysis 2.

Also, how in God's name do you use 4-5GB of RAM in normal Windows usage?! I top out at 1 and I think that's a lot :s

[Dr. Delta]

[...] I've 12GB of ram for my windows, but when i do normal stuff I only use 4-5GB max, so the other GB's are fun to stare at,[...].

You need to make 5-7GB RamDisk. Then you got a virtual drive that has insane read/write speed and cleans it's self out every reboot.

Seems somewhat impractical (that it cleans stuff you store on it), instead I've a 90GB SSD.

Also, how in God's name do you use 4-5GB of RAM in normal Windows usage?! I top out at 1 and I think that's a lot :s

Normally I've 3ds max, photoshop, firefox and winamp open; and in the background i run several services (webserver/fileserver and some other stuff). Normally 4-5 GB max, kinda floats around 3-4GB usually