4GB 250 vs 1GB 750

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Swartz55

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Just curious which of these two cards would be better. I'm looking at a R7 250 (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-r7250aelf4), which isn't very powerful, but has 4GB VRAM. Just curious if that would give it an advantage over the average 750, which has 1GB VRAM. The 270 is $109, the 750 is $117. Thanks.
 
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1GB is more than plenty for what a 750 can push. Even in a high-VRAM game like Bioshock Infinite, the 750 doesn't slow down AT ALL from any kind of lack of VRAM.

A 4GB 250 even in Crossfire is pointless. That card is made to get people to pay more who don't know what they're doing.

And a 750 Ti is about $40 more expensive than the $117 750 he's looking at.
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Danbuscus25

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if you have more than 1 monitor, then more vram is good. if you only use 1 monitor, then even the newest games on max settings 1600p will only use ~3gb, the cards with more vram than the card itself could possibly use are meant for crossfire/sli, like the 4gb 250. i would suggest the 750 Ti, 2gb of vram and a little faster than the 750.
 
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lowriderflow

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more VRAM is only good on high res if you can use it.
yes 1440p and 1600p can use up to 3gb if you have anti aliasing turned up... but two 250's at 1440p with anti aliasing on would get about 10 fps and not even be playable... so it's a pointless card basically.

go 750ti!
 
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HiTechObsessed

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1GB is more than plenty for what a 750 can push. Even in a high-VRAM game like Bioshock Infinite, the 750 doesn't slow down AT ALL from any kind of lack of VRAM.

A 4GB 250 even in Crossfire is pointless. That card is made to get people to pay more who don't know what they're doing.

And a 750 Ti is about $40 more expensive than the $117 750 he's looking at.
 
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The higher amount of vram like the 250 is not meant for cf or to trick people. Lower end cards like that with lots of vram are meant for multiple monitor configs for things like trading, not gaming, so don't need a lot of power. In the case for gaming, as other have stated, the extra vram is useless and the 750 is better.
 
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cst1992

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You know what, the VRAM on the 250 isn't the real problem either. The real deal killer here is the DDR3 RAM on the 250.
This goes to prove that the 4GB variants of such cards are purely meant to fool innocent buyers, or the DDR3 RAM makes no sense.

Go for GDDR5 ONLY, and go for 2GB RAM at the max.
 
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cst1992

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Why does a trading application require 4GB?
4GB is not a joke, and is more than even BF4 recommends.
 
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