Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Card RAM
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Hope a quick question. I have searched around but have not found a reference to this. Maybe I have just missed it. | |
ID: 9982 | Rating: 0 | rate: / Reply Quote | |
Am I just a complete idiot or does no one know? | |
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As far as I know, it makes no difference. But, I am not the subject matter expert on the cards ... I have various cards and the only distinction I can see is on the speed of the base card itself. putting it another way, anything over 512M is good. | |
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Should be no difference. As an example, on my 9600 GSO cards the 384MB one runs about 8% faster than the 768MB one (but it's also factory clocked 8% higher). It seems the memory footprint is rather small. | |
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Thank you both for the inputs. That settles the battle for this application. Now off to figure out the others. | |
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Early WUs used about 70 MB of GPU memory. Since then the time steps did get larger due to "larger WUs" (=more atoms), but not by much more than a factor of 2. So I'd expect the current WUs to not use much more than 150 MB. One could check with RivaTuner, but I have limited access to my machine now. | |
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Well ended up finding a GTX285 1GB locally on sale for 290 and it seemed to good to pass up. Once the price comes down I will see about adding another one. | |
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Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Card RAM