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alright the extra memory will help the x1800XT in fear and call of duty 2 but the memory is not the only thing pushing it ahead of the 7800gtx. As you can see it beats gtx in painkiller by almost 20% and as we can see form xbitlab's review the extra mem doesnt do squat there. Same thing with far cry.... The core itself has to be significantly improved to pull away from gtx in those games
And HL2.
Never said it wasn't improved, I did say the x1800xt was faster. I merely said that those percentage bars were heavily misleading, and that F.E.A.R. was mainly due to the 512mb of videoram. That simple.
Not trying to pick a fight or nothing.
The comparison was how cr@%#& the x850xt was compared to the 7800 GTX on FEAR, and then how ATi's new x1800xt has a huge advantage in the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Turok
EDIT: the games of the past didnt need 512mb, but today's enthusiast want 1600x1200 resolutions with the highest testure quality, shaders, HDR, bumpmapping, lighting, 4x to 16x AA, 16x AF, etc. and all that takes up video ram. CoD2 has a lot of high resolution multytexturing bumpmapping, and FEAR has dinamic lighting, and most (not all) shadows render in real time (like the Doom3 engine) with some nice high res. bumpmapping textures.
512mb, HDR, SM3 / DX9 and latter on SM4 / DX10 will be the way of the future, and we are probably close to filling up the 8x AGP bandwith.
agp, bandwidth? People still dont get it that beyond a certain point agp/pci bandwidth for video cards just doesnt matter... :/
Yet it still means nothing if you can't buy the figgin card...