Friday, November 9th 2007
How Much Graphics Memory do You Really Need?
As monitors get bigger, run at higher resolutions, and video games require ridiculous amounts of graphics memory to run at respectable settings, both AMD and NVIDIA have shoved more and more graphics memory into their cards. However, how much is enough? The folks at YouGamers did some serious tests, and discovered some interesting facts about VRAM. While AMD and NVIDIA both want you to think that humongous amounts of VRAM will magically make your games run at 1920x1200, YouGamers discovered that quantity is not what really matters. If you want to run the most stressful games at the highest resolutions possible, you will see much more benefit from getting faster graphics card memory, or simply a faster graphics card. You can read the full investigative article here.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
30 Comments on How Much Graphics Memory do You Really Need?
It's a crazy idea, but in the GPU wars - crazy ideas seem to yield the best gain over your competition.
overall, it really depends on the card as to how much is really enough, i will say that the 1gb 2900xts will run 24x aa much better than the 512's, and the gtx and ultra have a bit of an advantage over the newer cards coming out (8800gt, gts rv2, etc) when it comes to an increase in details.