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Old 07-03-09   #1 (permalink)
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Default [TPU] Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X Gets 2 GB Variant
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Major ATI partner Sapphire is releasing a variant of the HD 4890 Vapor-X accelerator, with double the amount of memory: 2 GB. Being a variant, it retains the rest of the feature-set, with a blue non-reference PCB, Sapphire Vapor-X GPU cooler, and separate heatsinks over the VRM and memory areas. The card comes with clock speeds of 870/4200 MHz (core/memory), and provides output from DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. It is expected to retail in Europe for as low as 226 EUR.
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Seems like overkill to me...for now, at least.
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Yeah, maybe with a wider bus it would be more conceivable. Otherwise it just seems silly to pile the memory on like that. Also, why not give it a more aggressive overclock? Silly Sapphire!

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Why put more memory but lower clocks?
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Besides GTA4 and 2560x1200 resolutions (Minorly), what benefits from this much vram?
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Yeah, maybe with a wider bus it would be more conceivable.
Why is it that so many people seem to not know the relationship between bus size and effective memory frequency?
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Depending on how much extra it costs overkill VRAM is better then insufficient VRAM...

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Why is it that so many people seem to not know the relationship between bus size and effective memory frequency?
ATI/nVidia can't increase bus size because it's limited to the physical pin-outs and layout of the chip, correct? They can disable/reduce bus-size and memory chips to cut costs, but they can't add it on. Right? That has been my understanding.
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Why is it that so many people seem to not know the relationship between bus size and effective memory frequency?
Why don't you inform us please. I would like to know, since at this point I don't exactly know.
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Yeah, maybe with a wider bus it would be more conceivable. Otherwise it just seems silly to pile the memory on like that. Also, why not give it a more aggressive overclock? Silly Sapphire!
more memory is better ?? But i don't know if it really gives more real-world performance.

They seems to put alot of memory , even on cheap product. But you must consider that new games uses high-resolution textures and the poly counts never go down...

unless it's like puting 12gb of memory on a 486, i think more memory is good - but I don't like it when it's used just to keep the price high. !

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