New 512mb Card By Ati No False Info

[SoloCamo]

http://gear.ign.com/articles/590/590276p1.html
they are showing it and giving it one away to a lucky attendee

im not guaranteeing its an r520 but its a new 512 card. that ati has quoted themselves.

[Friedchicken100]

what stopped gfx card companies from making cards with 512 and above?

[SoloCamo]

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Originally Posted by Friedchicken100

what stopped gfx card companies from making cards with 512 and above?

what do you mean "what stopped them", it costs more money to make and isnt truly needed for any game ATM

[SoloCamo]

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Originally Posted by SoloCamo

http://gear.ign.com/articles/590/590276p1.html
they are showing it and giving one away to a lucky attendee

im not guaranteeing its an r520 but its a new 512 card. that ati has quoted themselves.

bah i quoted my self like an idiot

[Friedchicken100]

I thought more vram would have faster and smoother performance. I thought its just like sys RAM, the more you have, the better.

[RobRich]

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I thought its just like sys RAM, the more you have, the better.

As with any type of memory, there is a threshold when more primary storage no longer leads to easily detectable performance gains. Case in point, most games require no more than 256MB of memory for texture storage, and I doubt that will be changing anytime soon, especially with the superb texture compression offered by DXTC and S3TC technologies.

The only reason for a 512MB gaming card would be for uncompressed texture storage, meaning Doom 3 is probably the only current game that can effectively utilize a graphics accelerator with so much memory. Synthetic benchmarks are another issue altogether, but most gamers honestly care less about 3DMark scores.

On the flip side, 512MB (and more!) of local memory is common for professional 3D cards. In addition to a gaming card, I suspect a new ATI FireGL 512MB model will soon be announced.

Robert Richmond

[nwo75200]

From what I've heard, it's gonna be an x850 with 512MB RAM. There has been some talk about XDR RAM, but I doubt that it will make it's debut on the current series.

[Whos Theo?]

That's a nice card, but I don't think anyone would really need it right now.