[Solved] Tri 6950, Tri 6970, 6990+6970 or 580 SLI

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Which would perform best dollar for dollar at 5760 x 1080?

 

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I would assume Tri 6950's...especially if they flash. Do the math.

$240 x 3 = $720
$350 x 3 = $1050
$710 + $350 = 1060

6950's will be the 'slowest' of the bunch, but 3 of them will handle 5760x1080.

 

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I haven't been able to find any that will flash at the 240 pricepoint.

 

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You probably wouldn't even need to flash them, those cards will perform pretty damned well at stock speeds in tri-fire I bet!

 

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I just saw the gtx 570 2.5GB cards. I'm going to have to do more research

 

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You wont need more than 2gb of memory... 1920 x 1080 for a game like cod black ops uses 800 mb of the onboard memory when in game with everything cranked...

 

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Tokae said:

You wont need more than 2gb of memory... 1920 x 1080 for a game like cod black ops uses 800 mb of the onboard memory when in game with everything cranked...

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Fair enough, but when you have 3 monitors at that resolution, won't it use more memory?

 

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Each card though as 2gb onboard... I am not well versed in how they will work, but I believe each card will use its own memory for each screen.. Hence 2gb per screen will be more than enough for each running 1920 x 1080..

 

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Each CARD has 2GB of memory, thats it. Each screen does not get 2GB, AFAIK. however I know little of how it would work with three monitors. With one monitor, 2GB is not 4GB, so Im not sure why with three monitors it would be all of a sudden.

 

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Each card has access to only its vRAM, so vRAM isn't added together when rendering frames.

 

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Thats what I was trying to explain.. I just n00bed it up.. I need to go home and shoot people on the Battlefield!