I'm building my own P.C. and i've run into a hitch at which video card i should get. I found that i can get a 2GB ATI (i prefer ati) 5570 or a 1GB ATI 5670 for the same price, i know the 5670 is a better card usually but the GBs have me thinking otherwise in this case... help me out.|||Definitely get the 5670. Or better yet, spend $10 more for a 4850 (if you have a good 450W or higher power supply). As previous posters have explained, 512mb and 1gb cards perform exactly the same at resolutions of 1680x1050 or lower. The GPU makes a much bigger difference than amount of video RAM.
The additional memory on 1gb cards only gets used at 1900x1200 or higher, and $85 cards like the 5570 and 5670 aren't powerful enough to game at resolutions that high anyway.
Same story for DX11.... currently it's a non-factor and cards like the 5570 and 5670 aren't powerful enough to crank up the detail to levels where DX11 would matter.
http://www.techspot.com/review/240-ati-r…
Anyway, with free shipping the 1gb Radeon 4850 only costs $3 more than the 512mb version.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…|||Get the 5670 CPU is more important then memory.
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