Given we have yet to learn what SLI will bring, I'd be inclined to wait. Possibly one super-whopper mega-RAMmed card will be the way to go, or it could be that the inbound optimisations suddenly make two lesser (cheaper) cards the dogs-doodads.
We just don't know, so advice right here, right now, is speculation not information.
No door is closed to an open mind.
Cats open doors...
Thank you gents, I've 3x 27' 1900x1200 screens at the moment and intend to see about a 4k large TV at some point in the future if a) it is acceptable quality and b) the rate at which they become more affordable :p I do wish double Titan blacks were affordable right now but sadly not, one would be the best my budget would stretch to...
Agreed on the speculation Simon, just given the output of some of the beta testers (Robains springs to mind!) I wondered whether it would be possible to get a heads up on whether 3+Gb VRAM would be likely to make much difference at all. My trusty old 7950 easily used all its 3 Gb quite often under 2.1 even on only one display but will have to limp onwards I guess until the mists of hardware uncertainty begin to evaporate.
Your 7950 should be ok when 2.2 releases. They reduced the trees memory consumption by 17%, meaning memory won't be as big of an issue come 2.2 release. I would wait and see how your card works come 2.2
Your 7950 should be ok when 2.2 releases. They reduced the trees memory consumption by 17%, meaning memory won't be as big of an issue come 2.2 release. I would wait and see how your card works come 2.2
Your 7950 should be ok when 2.2 releases. They reduced the trees memory consumption by 17%, meaning memory won't be as big of an issue come 2.2 release. I would wait and see how your card works come 2.2
I am actually considering a new graphics card and I am looking into this problem. For the time being I started to monitor the vram usage with GPU-Z, and with my flying habits, using photoscenery without autogen, my vram usage goes not beyond 1,6 GB! Consequently there is at least for me no reason to go for a 6GB card like titan! The clockspeed is far more important, and in this view obviously the 780ti and its variants is faster and to be preferred to the titan:
If I'm not mistaken, the attached snapshot shows that, although with low CPU utilization rate (i5 3570K), the frames are limited by the GPU because I have a midrange video card (GTX570). It seems that now the Vegetation is being processed more intensely on GPU.
