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is 2GB VRAM enough eyefinity

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I remember 1-2years ago everyone saying 2gb 58xx was not worth 10-25usd extra.

one of my 5850 died, mostlikely I will sell the other and buy two 6870, then around march 2012 either buy cheap used 69xx or buy a expensive card with 3-4gb VRAM.

My intension is to make GPU upgrade around 1.5-2years.
 
Yes. Honestly 1GB is enough at 2x AA in the vast majority of games. 2GB is plenty for everything right now at high levels of AA.
 
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2 Gb is plenty at the moment, unless your running 2560x1600 X 3 you will be limited by the cards performance before memory.
 
Lets just say the flashed HD6950 2Gb to HD6970 2Gb card for me was an upgrade in Eyefinity over CX HD5850 1Gb cards..
 
DaFox said:
http://widescreengamingforum.com/article/palit-nvidia-gtx460-surround-1gb-vs-2gb-benchmarking

2GB is fine. 1.5GB would be more or less fine as well.
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But those are 1 year old games: "STALKER, Aliens vs. Predator and Crysis are really the only games tested here which I can honestly say a 2GB GTX460 SLI setup isn’t powerful enough to cope with at (near)-full details in Surround resolutions"
http://widescreengamingforum.com/article/palit-nvidia-gtx460-surround-1gb-vs-2gb-stalker-clear-sky

Basicaly that means that the next gen(now) games like AVP, stalker and Crysis(2?) propably go far beyond 2gb.
 
Do note that two 6870 1gb is not the same as a 6950 2gb in terms of vram performance. Or basically 1gb+1gb != 2gb. With that said you can get buy with either currently, although more vram on one card is better for higher resolutions for multi-monitor gaming.
 
Westernesse said:
Do note that two 6870 1gb is not the same as a 6950 2gb in terms of vram performance. Or basically 1gb+1gb != 2gb. With that said you can get buy with either currently, although more vram on one card is better for higher resolutions for multi-monitor gaming.
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yes I know, 5850x2 is almost same as 6870x2, in Dirt2 I was able get smooth gameplay 2AA at 5760*1080.

1GB is not enough for 4AA, I'm either considering one of these 3 options:

1: buying a used 5850 for 5850x2. cost: 130usd

2: Sell my 5850 and get new 2x XFX 6870 dualfan 2year warranty cost: 210usd.

3: sell my 5850 and get new 2x Sapphire 6950 Dirt3 ed 2year warr cost: 370usd
 
I've been using one 6950 2GB for eyefinity, it's been pretty good, the only game I couldn't max out was Crysis 2 with AA on.
 
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