Radeon 5990

squall leonhart said:

Zen00 said:

That's the main purpose for the high memory. It allows for multi-monitor use.

eh... no, the purpose of more memory is higher Resolutions without hitting the framebuffer limits and getting dragged to 10fps.

Well not just resolutions. Higher graphical settings in games as well for the textures.

Though it will help with eyefinity when you have a resolution of 2560x1600.

Personally I wouldn't set monitors up in that kind of way to make 1 big monitor as the edges of each monitor would annoy me with how it breaks up the overall image.

its still going to be faster than anything else by a good country mile

squall leonhart said:

Zen00 said:

That's the main purpose for the high memory. It allows for multi-monitor use.

eh... no, the purpose of more memory is higher Resolutions without hitting the framebuffer limits and getting dragged to 10fps.

That's what I mean, having multiple monitors gives higher resolutions, thus the increase in RAM allows for more monitors.

Heroxoot said:

while a huge amount of money, I concur no man would need another gfx card for the next 3 years. This card feels like its being made to support crysis 2. Crysis was so high power it was used for benching after all, this could be a counter attack for crysis 2.

Well, Crysis 2 is heading to consoles as well, so unless they screw up the PC optimizations and eye candy features, it probably will run better than the original.


Then again, Metro 2033 made it to consoles but still brings a high-end PC to it's knees...


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