swifty_morgan :
Q9550@3.0/8gigDDR2-800/GTX260/896-1792/1680x1050 res............ Don't let anybody tell you that the card with 1792 memory is not needed or not necessary. I have that card and a couple of 896 cards. Taking Crysis for example........ With the 1792 you can play with no spit and sputter with 8AA@ 1680x1050 even in the snow scenes....and you CANNOT with the 896.......... even with AA turned off. These guys DON'T know what they are talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Crysis isn't the only game that takes advantage of more than 1gig of memory. Sorry guys.
lol, very high?
I played Crysis w/o sputter @ 1680x1050 with those resolutions with two 9800GTXs in SLi...which means 512mb per card.
1.7 gigs of RAM is totally wasted on a single GTX260. That's why the GTX295 (which performs equal to two GTX260s) have 2x896mb of VRAM total.
A 5850 is better than a GTX285, meaning it is about 60% better than a GTX260.
A 5870 is equal to a GTX295, meaning it is is roughly twice as powerful as a GTX260.
Both of those cards only have 1GB. Now the 5870 should definitely have a 2GB version in the near future, but the fact that ATI
released both of them with 1GB shows that cards currently don't really need more than 1GB.
Extremely powerful single GPU cards such as the 5850 or the 5870 are the only ones able to actually use more than 1GB of VRAM effectively.