my HD5970 experience

smarteyeball said:

skunksmash said:

smarteyeball said:

Nice. At what settings are they? Highest/Very High etc?

ALL MAXED OUT on the quality settings..... :)

unfortunately though the game only detects 998mb of VRAM rather than the 2048mb that's on the card, its gotta be crossfire related, but if i could access that my draw distance & the others (cant remember what they are now) would be @ 100%

All I can say is w00t

Unfortunately is does answer the one niggling question about the 2GB of Vram on that card actually being usable.

I suspected it wouldn't be

that's is bloody stupid, so that other GB of RAM just sits there, doing nothing.......

A320 said:

Guy's & gal's referencing my current specs and the score you see below, am I being seriously bottle-necked by my MOBO & CPU? I expected better. I have a 5870.

there is a CPU bottleneck here, in order to fully open these cards we need PCIE 2.0 (which you have) & a 1366 or 1156 platform.

my Quad @ 3.6ghz is a serious bottleneck & i think my chip is slightly better than yours clock for clock... (no Ego involved)

raj1402 said:

so does this card beats 295 in performance

i saw this one beats 295 in cpubenchmarking site!!!

EDIT: just watched my post count of 777 :)

the HD5970 outperforms the GTX295 in ALL benchmarks

check this guy out, running Quad CFX (2x 5970s)

im sure this beat or come close to the previous world record, & this is on AIR!!

skunksmash said:

that's is bloody stupid, so that other GB of RAM just sits there, doing nothing.......

That's just how dual/multi cards work. Each 1GB of vram per 'card' is being shared between the two. 'Technically' it's doing something. But it doesn't add up to a 2GB usable



It looks like the 2GB is just a marketing gimmick.

smarteyeball said:

skunksmash said:

that's is bloody stupid, so that other GB of RAM just sits there, doing nothing.......

It looks like the 2GB is just a marketing gimmick.

no doubt, it wouldn't be the first time...lol

Yeah

I should have known by looking at the specs, but I lived in hope of some 'magic'. If it were truly 2Gb usable, that would have meant each 'card' has 2GB alone.

Then they would have marketed it as 4GB

smarteyeball said:

Yeah

I should have known by looking at the specs, but I lived in hope of some 'magic'. If it were truly 2Gb usable, that would have meant each 'card' has 2GB alone.

Then they would have marketed it as 4GB

lol...... & then the B/S just starts to spiral

it cant be that hard to implement, surly..??, or maybe it is being fully utilized but the apps weren't designed to show RAM split up on a single PCB.

i do hope the latter is the case..

anyway nice card i would hate to think of the bottleneck mine would have with a 5970

skunksmash said:

smarteyeball said:

Yeah

I should have known by looking at the specs, but I lived in hope of some 'magic'. If it were truly 2Gb usable, that would have meant each 'card' has 2GB alone.

Then they would have marketed it as 4GB

lol...... & then the B/S just starts to spiral

it cant be that hard to implement, surly..??, or maybe it is being fully utilized but the apps weren't designed to show RAM split up on a single PCB.

i do hope the latter is the case..

It's the same with any dual card setup in SLI/Crossfire. Look at GPU-Z when you're running the game, and both sets of memory should be being used, but it's only the same things being added afaik, so say you're staring at a wall in game, the wall texture will be loaded in to both sets of memory, I think... but like what SE said, for single PCB cards, it is more or less a marketing gimmick.