VRAM Usage - 6970 (2 GB) vs. GTX 580 (1,5 GB) vs. GTX 580 (3 GB)

[Kankkis]

Originally Posted by Slechtvalk

But why as you see on picture I posted his memory usage is only 51% (with his 5970 card) while my 1 gig card with same settings is using over 100% video memory?

That s good question, i don't know, i think because windows see it 2gb that's the reason, but im sure games uses only 1gb memory, i mean they uses 2gb but there is both memorys with same data, working likely somehow that RAID hdd's, so if faster that way.

Kankkis