Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
I never said that you could derive speed from the amount of memory placed on higher end cards. However, both memory speeds and the amount of memory associated with each controller has an effect on stress levels.

If the card uses lower-end GDDR5, it is likely due to TDP and price issues rather than a design flaw IMO. Especially considering the GT 240 already uses higher binned modules in some cases.
tdp? i find it hard to believe that the memories power consumption is an issue

its possible that since its 320bit, they dont need high clocks, more bw barely scales... so they go for the cheapest low clocked stuff... makes sense, thats kinda what they did with gt200, very wide interface and then use cheaper gddr3.