Nividia or ATI, Intel or AMD

[ICDP]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Just picking up on what ICDP mentioned regarding the 570GTX, he is right!

I fly nicely at 3072x resolution SLI with 70+ fps no problems as long as my VRAM is not full.
e.g. REPKA server islands with all options grass, shadows, roads etc etc.

If I fly on a heavier map (REPKA server channel island), the moment my VRAM is filled up above 1240Mb, I have 30fps.
If I lower the eye candy (roads, shadows, grass=OFF) the my VRAM will go up to 1140Mb and I continue enjoying my 70fps.

So, no matter what kind of card you are going to choose, make sure you have 1,5Gb and more if you want to enjoy.

My next card(s) will have 3Gb VRAM for sure (I only need a rig to fly IL2 and CoD so this is the only requirement), I bet it will be available by next year.

~S~

PS: thanks for mentioning ICDP, it made go back and start testing....

I had a single GTX460 for a while and it is a great card at 1920x1080. I bought two more monitors and an extra GTX460 but at 6048x1080 they just could not handle the hit due to lack of VRAM. So I traded them in when the HD6970 came out and bought two of them. Two GTX580s were an option but I felt for the extra 10% performance at that resolution it was silly to spend and extra £240.

I always look at price/performance/features when making a graphics card purchase. When the GTX460 was released it was the best bang for buck so I bought one, then another. This time it was 2X HD6970s that got my vote.