Quote Originally Posted by mcmeat51 View Post
looking at the benches, the only cards that are able to outperform it are (single or multi GPU) cards that have 1GB++. If I had the money to buy a 5870, I would wait and get one (or two ) that had 2GB mem as I was assuming that would be the case.
In multigpu cards, that 2GB is mostly just the same texture memory mirrored for each one, so it behaves more like a 1GB card, although it's possible there are some optimizations to reduce memory usage.

I've been told my card is shipping this morning, when I get it, if no one else has stepped up to the plate, I'll settle once and for all if the memory bandwidth is what's holding the card back.