Thread: crossfire & sli
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Old 05-19-2011, 11:04 PM
Thee_oddball Thee_oddball is offline
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Originally Posted by Codex View Post
The resolution actually has a very small part to play in VRAM usage. With a screen res of 1920x1200 and the standard Direct3D colour data type being 32bit you're only using roughly 9MB of Video Ram. Take into account frame buffers for page flipping and AA you'd be hard pressed to use more than 100MB

The biggest issue around VRAM usage is the games content: textures, 3D models etc.

so you saying that if i get rid of the textures and the 3D models i can go back to using my old FX5200 128MB card?
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