[QUOTE=jfunk;283940]If you want to stay south of $200, I’d probably look for a 460GTX (NOT SE). If you’re willing to reach a little bit higher than $200, I’d look at the 6950.
Of course the moment you look at the 6950 1GB for that extra couple bucks, you’re quickly going to be asking yourself if you can reach just a little bit more for the 2GB version (which I absolutely would do, cash permitting).[/QUOTE]
until you had weak[under 600W]PSU i suggest you NV560 instead of 6850. cuz its already had same prices as GTX460 stocks. if you search market more careful )
except if you addicted to AMD/ATi GPU’s Image Quality benefits, like me :[
othrwise, if you had cash&PSU, pick 570 and 580 - they WAY faster. and noiser :[
maybe 32nm/28nm next-gen forks be better ?
yeah, latest GPU’s had bottlenecked by onboard memory bandwitch more than gpu speed itself or bus speed/latency.
until more heavier/GFX-rich projects appear on horisont[present ones was slow, but uglier than most yearlier ones], more realtime content synthesis employed[no pre-rendered textures/models in projects, just RT-made. and probably stored in short-term buffer in slow-speed GPU cases].
except ATi GPU’s, probably, keen to SIMD workload only, lack L1/L2 and units interconnect caps[bandwith and latency]and rendering back-end more sucks too :[
i guess temporal solution would be increase of bus width without[like on NV boards] increasing RAM chipcount, ie switching from 8x64 chips toward 32x16 chips for example as well as boasting chip/card bus-es caps too[not only L1/L2 boasting as NV does. but its works for shot-time].
