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Originally Posted by phantomphenom 
1) So theoretically having 2 x 4gb 680's in SLI mode will be able to play with the ultimate max settings including all AA types in the Nvidia control panel as well as the games options while maintaining a good amount of fps?
2) If i wasn't able to go ultra max on all graphics settings even with 1 4gb 680, if i had 2 of them, would that extra 4gb of memory allow me to take my settings higher than with only 1 card alone? How would this work? Would all of the data be split between the two 4gb cards?
3) Is the performance of 2 4gb 680s better than 3 2gb 680s?
I'm asking this question since I learn everything on this forum......so sorry for all the questions. Google search for these types of answers were kind of bias, so I trust your guys experience with graphics cards set ups ^.^'
1) So theoretically having 2 x 4gb 680's in SLI mode will be able to play with the ultimate max settings including all AA types in the Nvidia control panel as well as the games options while maintaining a good amount of fps?
2) If i wasn't able to go ultra max on all graphics settings even with 1 4gb 680, if i had 2 of them, would that extra 4gb of memory allow me to take my settings higher than with only 1 card alone? How would this work? Would all of the data be split between the two 4gb cards?
3) Is the performance of 2 4gb 680s better than 3 2gb 680s?
I'm asking this question since I learn everything on this forum......so sorry for all the questions. Google search for these types of answers were kind of bias, so I trust your guys experience with graphics cards set ups ^.^'
1) Almost ... there would be certain games where you might struggle to max out the Transparency Anti-Aliasing slider in the NVCP, but that's cause TRSSAA is brutally difficult (however not that many games support it anyways). Other than that one setting, you could max out damn near anything, with maybe a small handful of games where you'd struggle to completely max them out at 5760x1080p or above but could get very close to maxed. Memory would obviously not be the limiting factor in those cases, it would be GPU power.
2) Memory doesn't add in SLi, the same data must be mirrored into the memory of all cards. What you get by going SLi is more gpu processing power, not more memory capacity.
3) The only time having more memory has ANY advantage is when you're running a game that REQUIRES more than you HAVE, and 2GB is still A LOT of vram. So the answer to this question 99.5% of the time would be NO it would not. Even as high as 5760x1200 the 2GB cards have enough vram to max nearly every game and put a little AA on top of that. The 4GB cards will buy you, like, maybe being able to run 8xAA instead of 4xAA in a small handful of games at extremely high resolution ... or perhaps being able to install more high-res texture mods on a game like Skyrim ... and that's about it at this point in time.
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