worth a DX11 card?

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S~! Rgrt, Flanker35M. I'll check about and see what I can find per that info. I hope it's sooner rather than later. I'd hate to think I'd have to wait one more year for a memory-capable card to run SoW without stutters.
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edit: found this: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...on-review.html

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oh, btw, if you follow the link to hardwarecanucks' review of the 2gb ATI 5870 jump straight to the conclusion for the bottom line on performance. SPOILER ALERT!!!!!

There is not much benefit to just adding another gig of memory to this card. That seems to be the essential truth of other reviews I've read of video cards that added that extra gig of memory. If nothing else in the architecture changes, then the results are minor at best. Now if the memory bus was opened to 348mb or 512mb we might see that extra memory put to good use, otherwise it seems a bit of a gimmick. I was hoping this time it would be different. Maybe it will be different in SoW, at least to possibly limit stutters.
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It counts when you use FSAA. And RoF uses a lot of GPU memory so it could help there. But as said, before refreshes hard to tell And my bet is that SoW will not use that much tesselation anyway, quite useless feature eating FPS and resources IMO in a flight sim. Those RPG etc. are another issue though, there it might be of more use.

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point taken Flanker35m. Going slightly OT, have you seen this interview of Oleg?
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...7371056558/p/2
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Flyby, worth reading this review here: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews.php?reviewid=965 Very interesting read. The GFX competition will for sure heat up this year

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Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Flyby, worth reading this review here: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews.php?reviewid=965 Very interesting read. The GFX competition will for sure heat up this year

That review seems to bear out what I've read about adding an extra gb of memory to a card. But the person who wrote that review seems to be an ATI fanboy. He seems to think that 2gb 5870 was superior to the GTX480 in spite of the evidence otherwise in most of the games tested. Specifically, the 2GB 5870 card performed better than the GTX 480 at the higher resolution of 25x16 where the extra memory helps out, but at the lower resolution of 19x12 the ATI card loses every time. The moral of the story thereby holds true for me: a single GPU card with 2gb of memory is superior in performance to a single GPU with less memory only at the higher 25x16 resolution. But it's a moot point for me. I can't afford an LCD monitor that runs at that resolution, and I suspect most people here on these forums don't play at that resolution either. Now open up the bus on that ATI 5870 2gb card to that of the GTX 480 and you'd probably have a real monster able to devour the Nvidia card at all resolutions, imo.
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[Flanker35M]

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I read all reviews with a grain of salt But interesting to see that the 2Gb ATI did get a boost. With the upcoming refresh with fixed tesselation performance I bet ATI will be at the same ballpark again. But I think that review really summed it up at the end: hard to choose between the 2, boils down to if you use PhysX/CUDA or not which one to get. Anyways, good to see we have options