December 24, 201114 yr Check this card out...pfff...dual GPU card....6GB GDDR5, AMD raised the bar again...http://www.guru3d.com/news/amd-radeon-hd-7990-to-have-6gb-gddr5/
December 24, 201114 yr Now if they would spend as much time as Nvidia does on producing decent drivers... ___________________________________________________________________________________ Zachary Waddell -- Caravan Driver -- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/zwaddell Avsim ToS Avsim Screenshot Rules
December 25, 201114 yr who on earth running a standard setup with a few monitors needs 6 gigs of VRAM? Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
December 25, 201114 yr who on earth running a standard setup with a few monitors needs 6 gigs of VRAM?It's not really 6 GBy VRAM, it's 2 banks of 3 GBy (one bank per GPU.) The ATI/AMD 2 GPU cards are architected as 2 separate video adapters crossfired on a single card.Cheers,- jahman.
December 25, 201114 yr Author Exactly, like the GTX 590 advertised at 3GB but it's two banks of 1.5GB, still the 7990 is the first 3GB x 2.The kepler will be out next year (2nd quater maybe) and I can't wait to see what Nvidia will do to compete with the 7990....
December 26, 201114 yr It's not really 6 GBy VRAM, it's 2 banks of 3 GBy (one bank per GPU.) The ATI/AMD 2 GPU cards are architected as 2 separate video adapters crossfired on a single card.Cheers,- jahman.Yes, i should have included that part in my question, I am aware of that. But still, you have 2 GPU's each using 3 gigs, still a heap. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
December 26, 201114 yr Yes, i should have included that part in my question, I am aware of that. But still, you have 2 GPU's each using 3 gigs, still a heap.VRAM is mirrored between both cards in SLI, so it's 3GBOne of the reasons the GTX590 was a complete failure is that it only has 1.5GB x 2. At high resolutions in some games you can easily hit the 1.5GB limit, at least that's what they say in the interwebs.
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