R9 270X Sapphire Dual-X 4GB OC Edition or R9 270X MSI Gaming 2GB Edition

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Other than the VRAM the above mentioned cards have the same specs, except the MSI card has 10MHz more on the core clock. I want to know whether the Extra 2GB VRAM with the Sapphire Card would help run recent and upcoming games better at 1920x1080p.

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Nope the extra 2gb of vram will only be useful if you intend on crossfire or multimonitors otherwise 2gb is more than enough for 1080p
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I have read that Crysis 3 uses a lil over 2GB of VRAM at max settings. Battlefield 4 uses around 1.8GB of VRAM at 1920x1080p with MSAA 4X. That makes me wonder whether the MSI card will do fine with next-gen games like Watch Dogs and The Division on max settings.
 
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There will be no performance difference because the card is too weak to even handle 4gb of VRAM. So essentially you will start losing performance well before you run out of VRAM
 
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I have decided to go with the 2GB variant because I saw a GTX 760 2GB vs 4GB benchmark where the extra VRAM did not make much of a difference at 1920x1080p. Thanks for your help!
 
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I intend to use 3 monitors for gaming@1080p which will be better for me the msi or the 4gb sapphire
 
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