GPU 256mb VS 512MB

[kayhesse]

Hello,

Sorry for the second topic but its not totally clear to me.

Some ppl say:

The higher texture resolution, the more texture ram is needed.

If you want to play tommorows games, 512 is needed. AT LEAST.

Is this true?

Because im doubting between a 8600gt 512 and a 2600xt 256 :p

The 2600xt get 700 more points @ 3dmark but i got a feeling that the 8600gt is gonna be faster in a year when games come like maybe cod5 and far cry 2 and much other demanding games.

Or is 256 really enough for the net 2 years to defeat the 8600GT, because i had a x1600 with 128 and I see its much slower then the 256 version.

(in 2 years ATI would also have better drivers)


So what shoud i take
The 2600xt 512
or the 8600gt 256 wich is 50euro cheaper in a laptop

Thx in front,

[Klaus Hinum]

the question is, if the forthcoming games will run fluently on a 512mb 2600 xt in high details. if not, it the 256 mb version wont be much slower in medium details. still this remains speculative.

i would take the better laptop (in overall points). currently i (personally) would think that the 2600 xt is faster and would, therefore, prefer it.

[Pit-69]

IF one of the books has GDDR3 this book should have more power than the GDDR2 books, independent of the memorysize 256 or 512MB!

[slava]

That´s the point...
the 8600GT has 512MB DDR2 Ram and its a bit slowlier than the 256MB GDDR3 Ram of the 2600XT... but if you want to play with big resolution, 512 MB DDR2 might be better than the faster 256 GDDR3...  Otherway 2600xt is faster and is quite better than 8600 gt on usual settings, like 1024x768 or something else...
the result you can see on the 3Dmark benches, where the 8600 GT is clearly behind the XT

[kayhesse]

Thx for the reply's,

But you said if you wanna play on high resolutions the 512 will be better cause it can load bigger tetures right?

But whats big

i mostly play 1280x800

1600x10xx isnt needed in a 15,4 screen

So the 2600xt is better as we already thought But now im sure of it

And its togerther with a t7500 so cod4 gaming will be easy on 1280 (settings low, textures high)

THX

[kayhesse]

But now i read

Cod4 uses maxed out 600mb on video ram
Crysis uses 720 mb on video ram
They say cod2 and cod4 are high texture demanding games like doom and uses lots of video ram
and cod4 is the one i play @ most

Now i wont max out it but will i keep it up with a 2600xt
1280x800 All settings low and texture settings extra high

Or would the 8600gt 512 be better?

I had a x1600 128mb with 512hypermemory
I had 30fps on that settings but will it come couse of the hypermemory or just 128mb?

because the 2600xt 256 has no hypermemory as my notebook before.

And if i minimized cod4 and looked up in taskmanager it uses 1.2Gb of memory but i only had 1gb.
So maybe the hypermemory took half of my ram and was very usefull indeed with cod4.

Sorry if its to complicated but what card is better for cod4 In combi with t7500 2.2Ghz 800fsb
8600gt 512gddr2
2600xt 256gddr3

Who can take the efford to read all this sorry its so long,