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Originally Posted by Hecke
Thank you for these links. What would you go for? I never had ATI but this time I would maybe go for them because I think that more VRAM could make a bigger difference due to the fact that the textures in BoB have high resolution.
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If I can afford it, the 6970 for its performance over the 6950. If there is a choice between 1Gb and 2Gb then I might be tempted to go 6950 2Gb because I am guessing a 6970 2Gb might be up there near the 580GTX price, currently costing £400-500, which is beyond my budget. That's really the point, I could twist my own arm to spend £350 and the 68xx's were much cheaper to manufacture than the 58xx's bang for bang. AMD have made a lot of the 69xx performance and placed the 6950 just above the 5870 and the 6970 below the 5890 (ok the sheets were leaked). The 5870 is currently around £300-£350 on scan.co.uk. If the 6950 technology is cheaper but I'm getting more performance I'd expect it to hit around the same price, possibly a little less. if the 6970 price should happen to drop in near that I might twist my arm a little harder! (but not for a 580GTX)
The 5890 and 6990 are both dual cards and beyond my wallet.
12-10-2010, 08:48 PM
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