Gtx 770 2gb vs 4gb 1 card and SLI

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Chris Wilson

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I will soon be purchasing some type of Gtx 770. I know there is not a big differnce between 2gb and 4gb gtx 770 in single cards--

- I am curious how big is the difference in SLI between 2gb and 4gb--- is it enough to warrant a 50-70 dollar difference per card-

also Please note I have an i7-4770k stock speeds (for now) , and a Gigabyter Z87-UD3H- and that motherboard has 1 PCIe 3.0 x16 and 1 PCIe 3.0 x8 not 2 x16 --- I am pretty sure that makes like only a 1 percent differnce---

I am sure that my cpu will not be bottlenecked by sli 770's but I would like to hear it again because I just bought this cpu and I am proud of it
 
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If your gonna SLI it's better to get the 4gb card. Because you want the setup to last you as long as possible.

GPU-wise it's a beast, but like Cons29 said new games are going to start using more vram. Did you know the new consoles have 8gb of ram? That's scary alright.
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No problems with a bottleneck there , you can always overclock the cpu anyway to get more juice out of it.

If you are on a single 1080 monitor a 2GB card will do, but if you plan on upgrading to 1440 or go multi monitor I would suggest you get the 4GB model as you will need that extra vram for it and also its better for future proofing.
 
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cant games like bf4 suck all 2gb? bf3 on ultra was just less than 2gb, if it's up to me ill get 4gb. Note that i have 2gb 670, wish i bought the higher one. yes, very few (if any) will use more than 2gb, so it depends on what you play i guess
 
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If your gonna SLI it's better to get the 4gb card. Because you want the setup to last you as long as possible.

GPU-wise it's a beast, but like Cons29 said new games are going to start using more vram. Did you know the new consoles have 8gb of ram? That's scary alright.
 
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Are you entierly sure about this?

Here's a picture of a test performed by nodichardware.se, note these are the result from 4k solution and not 1080p. The thing is that you won't need more than 3GB in your GPU for the highest demanded games if you're playing at 1080p - and you probaly will not have to worry for a long time.

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If you want to keep everything on top while gaming in 4k there will be large additional costs too, a 4k monitor as example.

Please correct me if I'm wrong and please do answer my post.
Best regards.
 
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huilun02

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The ordinary GTX 770 comes with 2GB of VRAM. The chart you posted shows that at 4k, two of those three games are exceeding 2GB usage, and Alien using 1800MB which is pretty close. It is entirely possible the OP might one day move to 4k and would be a lot more comfortable if he went with 4GB cards.

In fact even at 1080p you'd be surprised VRAM usage can still get pretty high. Running supersampling or lots of AA and post processing will also eat away at VRAM.

Anyway this thread is nearly a year old and the OP would have bought the stuff already.
 
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