Quote Originally Posted by Revv23 View Post
well the 9800xt and the 6800 512mb were actually better cards, so i undestood that, this just seems to be the same card with more ram. same performance. I see your point though. You may as well throw the 8800 ultra into that comparison too.
I didn't say 9800xt, the 9800xt was at higher clockspeeds than the 9800pro. If you took a 128mb 9800pro, flashed to 9800xt(assuming you had the right core) you'd match the 9800xt speeds and framerates... Generally speaking, in any situation where the memory mattered the card was too slow to be playable with either part. That's why I mentioned it.

Quote Originally Posted by bluep3ace View Post
the ram limitation of the 8800gts 320 is very apparent in comparisons with the 640 edition. ram does matter, unless you play at 1024x768, as long as the GPU itself is powerful.
Once you hit the vram needed for an application, the rest makes no difference what-so-ever. By the time 1gb of videoram is needed, we'll have moved on to better cards. Especially now that engines are starting to stream textures, which will further drop the amount of vram needed...