Any suggestions , I started playing Far Cry II again and want to start playing some of the newer games coming out.
Its for the Intel rig below.
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Prestige Worldwide wrote:Wait a month, see if new AMD cards are worth it... otherwise get a GTX 760 or wait until Maxwell 1H 2014.
Airmantharp wrote:My only advice is to avoid cards with less than 6GB of RAM, and shoot for the 8GB-12GB range, as these incoming consoles will have 4GB-6GB of RAM to play with on their own, and much of that will be free for graphics; if you extrapolate that up to PC-release levels of detail, you can expect 6GB to be the new 2GB in the near future, with 6GB likely not being enough for the highest detail levels in the top-end games (and I'm not talking AA, but actual pre-rendered game assets).
puppetworx wrote:Airmantharp wrote:My only advice is to avoid cards with less than 6GB of RAM, and shoot for the 8GB-12GB range, as these incoming consoles will have 4GB-6GB of RAM to play with on their own, and much of that will be free for graphics; if you extrapolate that up to PC-release levels of detail, you can expect 6GB to be the new 2GB in the near future, with 6GB likely not being enough for the highest detail levels in the top-end games (and I'm not talking AA, but actual pre-rendered game assets).
Consoles are much more likely to be utilizing 2-3 GB for graphics than 4-6 GB. The Xbone OS uses 3 GB alone and run of the mill pc games use 2 GB of RAM these days leaving 2-3 GB for texture buffer. This rumor of consoles having 6 GB texture buffer needs to stop.
puppetworx wrote:Personally I'd wait to see what the 760 Ti and AMD's 8 series looks like. The 570 isn't all that decrepit yet.
Airmantharp wrote:We could have 8GB HD7870's and GTX770's, and 12GB HD7970's and GTX780's tomorrow
Airmantharp wrote:I think you'd be foolish to accept anything less than 6GB for a PC card.
End User wrote:Airmantharp wrote:We could have 8GB HD7870's and GTX770's, and 12GB HD7970's and GTX780's tomorrow
I'm sure we'll get there soon but current games don't come close to using 6GB of memory usage even when maxed out at 2560x1600.
JohnC wrote:End User wrote:Airmantharp wrote:We could have 8GB HD7870's and GTX770's, and 12GB HD7970's and GTX780's tomorrow
I'm sure we'll get there soon but current games don't come close to using 6GB of memory usage even when maxed out at 2560x1600.
Have you tried playing Skyrim at very high resolution with a few HD texture mods? This is, of course, an exception but "current games" can actually come "close to using 6GB of memory usage"
JustAnEngineer wrote:2 or 3 GiB is going to be sufficient for 1920x1080 (and other low resolutions) for quite some time.