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Old 2012-05-01, 12:05 AM   [Ignore Me] #96
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Re: Tweet hints at FPS numbers


Originally Posted by kaffis View Post
Namely, if what you mean to say is "for single-card setups, the manufacturers of the graphics cards generally don't saddle a GPU with less RAM than it needs to keep up," I tend to agree.
Pretty much.

More video RAM means that, say, a mid-range card could use higher texture resolutions than an equally fast card with less RAM.
But if the GPU does not have the horsepower to render those textures at a smooth 30+ fps, then loading them into RAM is a wasted effort.
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