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Old 04-20-2011, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by phoenix1963 View Post
I get the impression from the people posting decent framerates that maybe ATI cards are doing better than NVidia - much as I hate to say it as a long time NVidia user.

So if my upgrade choice is between, say, a 6950 2048MB and a 560Ti 2046MB, I'm minded for the former. I only run a 1280x1024 monitor.

56RAF_phoenix aka phoenix1963
If you run a smaller monitor, you'd probably not be able to use 2 gigs of VRAAM. The card which would give you better performance at 1280 X 1024 would not necessarily be the best at higher resolutions, which is where you need more video memory. Clock speeds may be more important at lower res.
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