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128 vs 256?
farmuse wrote:
tod wrote: To help keep costs down, the card with 256MBs of memory might be using slower memory. Or memory that is less overclockable. wrote in message ups.com... What kind of performance difference will I see if I get a 6600GT with 256 as opposed to 128? no, they use DDR3, I would get a 256 MB card esp for EQ II and FarCry where the texures are more detailed and the draw distance is huge. I would actually recommend a 6800GT if you can afford it. Increased draw distance usually has a more severe impact on geometry performance than texel memory. Extra mipmaps and reduced LOD beyond a certain level don't have that great a cost, but vertex shaders or legacy vertex transforms do. Especially on lower end cards with less VS units. Although games that force a high negative LOD will always have a memory performance hit. |
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