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

[madrebel]

Originally Posted by louisv

SLI stands for Scan Line Interleaving...

no this is what sli used to stand for. sli now = scalable link interface.

[Ataros]

I can not find any program to monitor vram usage of an ATI card. MSI Afterburner, GPU-Z do not show it for an ATI. Any suggestions?

[adonys]

try AIDA64, as the others did in the other thread.

[jimbop]

Originally Posted by Ataros

I can not find any program to monitor vram usage of an ATI card. MSI Afterburner, GPU-Z do not show it for an ATI. Any suggestions?

Edit: beaten to it!

[madrebel]

yes it does you just have to setup realtime monitoring.

evga precision and msi afterburner are just different versions of rivatuner.

here is a link
http://www.vgaforum.com/showthread.p...nitoring-Guide

or just google rivatuner monitoring guide and figure it out from there. it isn't terribly difficult.

if you want to get real fancy then you can setup a profile that sets the clocks to default when no 3d apps are running and another profile to apply an overclocked profile when a 3d app is running and have them apply automagically.

*edit* the pics i posted on page 2 show in the upper right hand what real time monitoring looks like. it puts an overlay on the screen when a game is running. you can change that position around too if you like. you can also change the color too.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by madrebel

yes it does you just have to setup realtime monitoring.

evga precision and msi afterburner are just different versions of rivatuner.

As far as I know rivatuner is supposed to be used with nVidia cards. Do you manage to use it to monitor ATI memory usage?

[madrebel]

it can be used with ati GPUs as of the 8500 series. i would recommend using evga's precision. you dont need an evga card to use it. i like it over the MSI version ... its just a UI thing they are both functionally equivelent.