4850 2GB!

[PeterStoba]

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7943.html

Would you ever use that 2GB? unless you ran games on a 4foot screen :lol:

[wonderlust]

it's probably the same as http://techreport.com/articles.x/14230/1

[marsey99]

its to hype n00b into buying it, its got more ram it must be good.

[Audigex]

Essentially, I think it doesn't matter with current games... but it might extend the life of the card by a few games. The real question is how well the memory matches the processing power. There's no point having 32gb of memory, if the GPU can't process the pixels fast enough.

I personally think 1GB is enough for current cards - as shown, there's very little difference between 512MB and 1GB cards atm. At most, I think 1GB will be needed before we need more powerful processors on the cards.

[marsey99]

its to do with the mem bandwidth, if they doubled that too it would make a difference.

[Mul.]

Now that, I don't really see the point of. What I am looking forward to seeing is a 1GB GDDR5 version of the Radeon HD 4870.

[marsey99]

thats it, faster speed thru the narrow bandwidth beats more total space.

[Sean]

Why buy a massive fridge if you live alone? :)

You're right, it's to "trick" lesser technical people into buying them.

[Lynx]

What about the problem of ram being addressed to the card, unless youve got 4GB your going to struggle, even then your losing half your ram.

[marsey99]

thats only a problem if your on 32bit os.

the 4870 is saved by gddr5 to get the most speed thru its 256 bus, imagine what it would be like if the stuck a gig or 2 on the 280 with its 512 bus :eek:

[Lynx]

1gb of gddr5 on 280 would be insane and a waste as theres not enough data for the bandwidth.

[marsey99]

so it wont be idle on the 4870?