Fantaz wrote on Sep 4, 2014, 14:46:
this actually worries me... i bought two 2GB GTX 770's for SLI and i'm wondering if it will be enough to play future games at all.

Your use is legitimate, but it actually touches on one of my pet peeves: people who get more memory on a video card then they need and act like it was a good choice. Drives me nuts because not only does it waste memory (and thus energy and heat), but it also wears out the memory controller faster (and often won't overclock as well) and raises prices of memory for everybody else. Wake up, people...companies sell these thicker cards to make a bigger profit from you.

I say your use is legitimate because SLI/Crossfire is one of the few places you really need that extra memory. In most cases a GPU's core won't be able to keep up with the memory at the settings required to use enough memory to make a difference. Actually, HARDOCP did a review about the differences of 2GB and 4GB on the GTX 670 (equivalent to GTX 760). Their findings?

"To make the 4GB of VRAM on the GTX 670 work for you, you are going to need at least three of them for 3-way SLI, to give you the performance to back up the VRAM."

Yet I've seen people on this very site praise their (single) 4GB GTX 760...yeah, thanks for driving up GDDR5 prices.

This comment was edited on Sep 4, 2014, 17:38.