RM1260 discounted price

I'm using humble HD 7870 2GB non Over clocked version

Mine one is Sapphire HD 7870 non OC card...

This is what I found, just rerun the test to get the screenshot. Leftmost picture are High setting while next to it are in ultra setting.

Two settings tried, namely High and ultra setting. both utilises similar amount of GPU which are 30-33% and VRAM was maxed out by using 1.9GB out of 2GB. But I found that ultra setting uses 1.5GB of system memory, i guess this is the sign of bottleneck, while High settings wew use only about 500MB System memory.

My experience: High: very playable altho FPS are not that great.
Ultra: stuttering like hell...

Detail :
Ultra setting: everything max out with AA set to MSAA 8x
High setting: everything set to high with AA set to FXAA.

I hope you all are willing to share your view, your precious view enable me to learn about different point of view. For those who interested, I'm using microsoft process explorer, i hope to see your experience, TQ

This post has been edited by wongkoewei: Jan 28 2015, 10:16 PM


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HD 7870 2GB i am using

what do you think? lightning 4GB vs 8GB Vapor x (400ringgit difference )

Thanks for your advice, give you a thumb up

Quite an interesting pricing, beside that lightning priced at 1299, sapphire triX also priced 1249 and 1359 for non OC and OC version respectively

again... my only computer part shopping heaven. Lowyat plaza~~ I prefer viewnet, other shop might do as well.

same for me, just my pocket telling me other wise, i can afford both, but my conscience telling me to save money XD!!!

another thought, RM 400 can do many things, buy 1 256GB SSD, or one month of meal, car installment...

do you think just buy 4GB lightning will be wiser?

I see... too many different opinions around... making me really blurred out~

I want to know soooo badly!!!!!!!!!!!!

If there are any confirmed news of new GPU arriving before GST, I will definitely go for it. I'm concentrating for 290X just following the reason of their dirt cheap pricing now. With similar pricing as GTX 980, I can make it with a 290X plus one decent PSU, may be plus one SSD. If the PSU will not be needed, this option may even offer me much less cost compared with coming gen, which i think it wont be cheap especially for GTX 980 rivalling model~

I think I shoud apologize for that. that statement just state my rationale for my choice. Hopefully it won't bother much

even with the price now, which are (1299 for 4GB and 1699 for 8GB) making me care really less for its 'old' age)

u becom guinea pig 1st LOL!!! btw, i might go next week...

This post has been edited by wongkoewei: Jan 30 2015, 09:43 AM

If can get this price, i really want to get two of them n CF kaw kaw~~

Frankly now only a very few case that 4GB will be bottlenecked.

For CF, the effective VRAM will not be increased as both cards will be provided with identical info, mean if a game that will use 3.5GB in single card, it will use up 7GB in total or 3.5GB per card if u go for CF.