what type GPU is better for SoW_BoB?

[KG26_Alpha]

IMHO

Why worry about BoB specs ?????

Even when its released your hardware will be out of date a few months later , the hardware market is there for one reason only ...........to take your money.

We will all have to wait and see what we get BoB wise, personally I never trust min specs on program boxes they can be optomistic.

I'm sure by the time it's released we will have a much clearer idea whats needed to "max" it out , but don't forget the old engine would eat up processing power so I would think more CPU than GPU on the new engine.

[Flyby]

guys, I'm not meaning to sound argumentative. I know new stuff will be out. I'm really only asking a technical question about which might be more important for SoW, gpu-wise. Regardless of what card it's run on, I just want to know (if it's a legitimate tech question) if the SoW rendering engine is more inclined towards being shader intensive, or memory-capacity sensitive. Maybe I misunderstand the article I read, and linked in my first post, but that's all I'm asking. I had the impression that one way might favor ATi, and the other might favor Nvidia. That's all, really. Nothing to do with when a gpu or the sim comes out.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by 99th_Flyby

I had the impression that one way might favor ATi, and the other might favor Nvidia.

I suspect that impression is incorrect. The GTX 260 reviewed, like the HD 4780 1GB, has a lot of memory. It was the HD 4870 512MB which was comparatively short on RAM. As they said, there's probably no point in getting a new HD 4870 512MB as a single card at this point. If you need a new card now, get either the new version of the GTX 260, a HD 4870 1GB, a pair of HD 4850s in Crossfire, or a GTX 280, but not a HD 4870 512MB. If you don't absolutely need to buy a new card right now, and BoB SoW is your main use, you might want to wait a bit.

I'm personally expecting an HD 4870 512MB to be quite adequate for BoB SoW, though if through some hideous mischance it comes out in 2012 (not that I think it will, that is just intended as an extreme example), then by that time a HD 4870 of any sort may be getting old and not quite up to the required specification.