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Have been reading through dozens of forums about this. And I got most of the pointers people said, but a few exceptions I can't seem to find answers for.
These are the two cards I am deciding between:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ENZRQ5U/ - EVGA GeForce GTX 770 Dual Superclocked 2GB 02G-P4-2776-KR
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EIG47JC/ - EVGA GeForce GTX 770 Dual FTW 4GB 02G-P4-2776-KR
The general consensus seems to be that 4GB is useless if you are only going to be doing 1080p at most. Fine, fair enough. But I ran into some exceptions I cant seem to find an answer to:
Many said to go with 4GB if you are going to use SLI. Which the system will.... eventually. However, I don't know if most people are saying this because they expect you to be running the game past 1080p when doing SLI. Even in SLI the system will probably not be run beyond 1080p, it will just be for increased framerates at 1080p in active 3D or just for more demanding games on Ultra... still at 1080p.
There was a lot of back-and-fourth about Battlefield 4 using more than 2GB even at 1080p. And even with this being a popular search topic on Google, I just kept getting mixed speculation. Some said that is not true, some said it is true but that it only just barely uses above 2GB, some said it definitely uses more than 2GB.
And finally, some said that while it doesn't matter now, future games will start using more than 2GB, while others said it will never be effective since the GPU itself will never be fast enough to run such games as a playable framerate if they use that much memory anyway.
So, if the system will start out as a single GTX 770 doing 2D and 3D 1080p (Preferably at Ultra with all settings maxed), and then be upgraded to a SLI setup still doing 2D and 3D at 1080p, would there be any reason to go with 4GB instead of 2GB?
These are the two cards I am deciding between:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ENZRQ5U/ - EVGA GeForce GTX 770 Dual Superclocked 2GB 02G-P4-2776-KR
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EIG47JC/ - EVGA GeForce GTX 770 Dual FTW 4GB 02G-P4-2776-KR
The general consensus seems to be that 4GB is useless if you are only going to be doing 1080p at most. Fine, fair enough. But I ran into some exceptions I cant seem to find an answer to:
Many said to go with 4GB if you are going to use SLI. Which the system will.... eventually. However, I don't know if most people are saying this because they expect you to be running the game past 1080p when doing SLI. Even in SLI the system will probably not be run beyond 1080p, it will just be for increased framerates at 1080p in active 3D or just for more demanding games on Ultra... still at 1080p.
There was a lot of back-and-fourth about Battlefield 4 using more than 2GB even at 1080p. And even with this being a popular search topic on Google, I just kept getting mixed speculation. Some said that is not true, some said it is true but that it only just barely uses above 2GB, some said it definitely uses more than 2GB.
And finally, some said that while it doesn't matter now, future games will start using more than 2GB, while others said it will never be effective since the GPU itself will never be fast enough to run such games as a playable framerate if they use that much memory anyway.
So, if the system will start out as a single GTX 770 doing 2D and 3D 1080p (Preferably at Ultra with all settings maxed), and then be upgraded to a SLI setup still doing 2D and 3D at 1080p, would there be any reason to go with 4GB instead of 2GB?
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