GTX 690 4gb good for modern games @1440p?

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Zerychon

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Hey,

Someone on r/hardwareswap is offering me a gtx 690 for a good price. Although it is quite an old card, I heard it beats the 970 I was previously going to buy by MILES. However, I have heard of VRAM issues and the like.

So, what do?
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I"ve got info that could be helpful. I just recently upgraded from a GTX 690 to 970 SLI. I was also using a 2560 X 1440p monitor. I play BF4, Metro, Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite, ect. These games ran fine w/ maxed out in-game settings w/ my 3930k and 690. However, all of these games had a common problem that was cropping up exiting games, I would have a Windows 7 dialog box informing me I'd run out of VRAM resources and Aero mode had to switch to Windows Basic theme. I could confirm this by recording a logfile in GPU-Z which would indicate basically all 2048MB of VRAM per GPU was being used in game, caused the Aero mode shutoff. Back to your question though, yes a 690 is going to be faster than a single 970 as shown in some 970...
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I"ve got info that could be helpful. I just recently upgraded from a GTX 690 to 970 SLI. I was also using a 2560 X 1440p monitor. I play BF4, Metro, Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite, ect. These games ran fine w/ maxed out in-game settings w/ my 3930k and 690. However, all of these games had a common problem that was cropping up exiting games, I would have a Windows 7 dialog box informing me I'd run out of VRAM resources and Aero mode had to switch to Windows Basic theme. I could confirm this by recording a logfile in GPU-Z which would indicate basically all 2048MB of VRAM per GPU was being used in game, caused the Aero mode shutoff. Back to your question though, yes a 690 is going to be faster than a single 970 as shown in some 970 reviews/current games. Going forward though, VRAM is going to be a bottleneck w/ upcoming titles.
 
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I actually did some research, and I will now just go with the GTX 970. The VRAM bottleneck will hinder my gameplay.

 
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