Quote Originally Posted by GoldenTiger View Post
While many games will allocate more, they do not *need* more to run at full performance. BF3 and Crysis 2 especially are well-known to do so.
I used to have a 6950CF with 2GB VRAM and pretty much all of these games run better on my 7970OC. It's hard to say how much the extra VRAM helped in each case, but it's not reserved just for the heck of it.