Why GFX card with more RAM?

[Liz Lemon]

Originally Posted by icarus

Except I have not ever seen any games use over 2 gb vram even at 2650 x 1600 res with AA at 16x super and I have seen Cod use well over 2 Gb with no AA or AF. That seems exceptional to me.

So what? That doesn't change the fact that there are games that use over 2gb of vram - and cod is one of those titles.

Also keep in mind that the game is using a deferred rendering pipeline. That means that the game is rendering to multiple buffers - all of which take up space that is directly tied to resolution.