Buying new VGA to play CoD

[zanzark]

Hi guys,
I'm buying a new VGA to be able to better play CoD.

Is the sim running best on ATI or NVIDIA cards?

Does it make any difference to have 1 or 2GB of VRAM?
(as in most games it doesnt, according to benchmarks)

Thanks.

[Ze-Jamz]

Plenty of posts on that subject m8..did you try a search first?:rolleyes:

Anyway at this moment in time Im not sure the make of card makes much difference now though before the ATI users had the blue horizon line syndrome though im sure its fixed now..

1 or 2 Gig? 2gig cards are running better here as a whole..the more VRam seems the better choice but this game is being optimized still so wait untill the next official release (this friday?) comes out and see what people are saying in terms of what card they have and what performance gains they have with the new patch

[zanzark]

I did search, but in other threads there are lots of opinions, and no real tests to find out the differences.

I was wondering if someone benchmarked the sim using different VGA in the same system.

[335th_GRAthos]

NVIDIA and at least 2Gb VRAM

RGDS

[JG52Krupi]

I did search, but in other threads there are lots of opinions, and no real tests to find out the differences.

I was wondering if someone benchmarked the sim using different VGA in the same system.

Yes lots of opinions, I buy which ever I think is best at the time be it either AMD or nvdiia.

For il2 I would say nvidia cards would give you more bang for buck, regarding the benefits of vram the more the merrier but I would try and find some info on 2gb vs 3 gb.... you want at least 2.

If you have the money then I would go for the 580 3GB, stay away from the 590/6990 atm bad sli/xfire.

[zanzark]

Thanks!

[CWMV]

Im using the 580sc 1.5gb, and the game runs slick like buttered glass.
smoother than I ever thought it would run, ever, to be honest. Last patch was a hell of a big deal.

[NedLynch]

Just fyi, there is as far as I know one video card manufacturer who makes a 570 with over 2 gb of vram: EVGA gtx570.

They make the "normal" models as well, with 1280 mb vram, but they have one model with more vram, might be an alternative to the more expensive 580.

[zanzark]

I agree with you NedLynch, I don't intend to buy a very expensive card, as my 6850 runs the game ok.
It seems that the GPU is enough, but the VRAM is insuficient, as I can see in GPU-Z where it shows the VRAM Full, and another 800MB of "dynamical memory" allocated.

I think for those that can't afford a really expensive card, a 560,570,68xx,6950 with 2GB is ok.

[NedLynch]

Well, the thing is gtx560's normally come with 1gb vram, 570's with 1280gb vram.
I just had a quick look around and as I said the only manufacturer to make 2gb models of the 560 and 570 is EVGA and they have one model for each.

580's normally come with 2gb of vram, but there are a couple more brands that offer a 3gb model of the 580.

[tintifaxl]

Well, the thing is gtx560's normally come with 1gb vram, 570's with 1280gb vram.
I just had a quick look around and as I said the only manufacturer to make 2gb models of the 560 and 570 is EVGA and they have one model for each.

580's normally come with 2gb of vram, but there are a couple more brands that offer a 3gb model of the 580.

Wrong and wrong. ;)

580s come with 1.5 GB or 3 GB of ram (never 2 GB, because of memory bus width) and here in Europe you can buy a 2.5 GB GTX 570 from Point of View, too. http://geizhals.at/653866

I would definatly recommend the GTX 580 with 3 GB for CloD.

[Igo kyu]

definatly
Def-I-knIghtly. :grin:

[LoBiSoMeM]

TODAY I can run the sim with a GTX 560Ti with textures in "Original" without stutters.

It's now near a "normal" game regards textures. No need to 3GB VRAM to run in "not so big" resolutions with decent textures.

This issue is much improved in last patches.

[NedLynch]

Wrong and wrong. ;)

580s come with 1.5 GB or 3 GB of ram (never 2 GB, because of memory bus width) and here in Europe you can buy a 2.5 GB GTX 570 from Point of View, too. http://geizhals.at/653866

I would definatly recommend the GTX 580 with 3 GB for CloD.

Sorry, I was wrong with the 2gb 580, of course it's 1.5gb and yes the EVGA gtx570 has 2560mb of vram.

However, I would recommend a gtx580 with 3gb of vram as well........right now if money isn't an issue.......in a year or so when the 580s are second best. I do never buy the best out on the market, since after a relatively short time something better will come out, and the state of the art card I just bought drops dramatically in price.
If you buy "second best" you should always be in good shape and save quite a substantial amount of money. Still got some bills to pay and a family to feed. I have told the power company so many times already, power my house for free, I need a new video card, but they just don't want to listen :rolleyes:

[SPUDLEY1977]

Zan,
I have the GTX570 1.3 GB RAM, and I would spend the extra $20-30 to own the 2.5GB ram 570.

Would you like a chart showing GPU RAM usage?

[Lozmy]

Hi guys,

I would like to ask you for an opinion.

Im planning to do this kind of upgrade:
-Intel Core i7 960 3.2GHz BOX
-ASUS Sabertooth X58 "Gaming Series" Motherboard
-CORSAIR DDR3 3x4096MB CMP12GX3M3A1600C9 DHX

And now the question:

I am going to upgrade my rig as described above but I am a bit undecided regarding VGA choice. Yes I know that the finest choice would be something like GTX580 3078MB GDDR5 but guys what do you think about an Nvidia GTX480 1536MB GDDR5?

Would It be acceptable to use the GTX480(which I currently own) together with the new PCU, memory, etc.?

Thanks

Best regards ;)