Report: Sapphire Building 8GB Radeon R9 290X 'Toxic' Card

[heero yuy]

Even with one 1600 monitor, the right mods can bring current 6G cards to their knees in terms of memory on the card used. However those examples are extremely few right now. So there is a need for it, but a niche. Plus then modded other resolutions, 2-3 monitor setups, etc. More memory is not a bad thing in any regard accept cost.

6GB with "The right mods"? Don't you mean "a mish-mash of conflicting and abominably under-optimised mods made by amateurs who weren't talking to each other"? Because if those things were properly managed and synchronised, they would probably take up about half that space

sorry but how does bigger/higher resolution textures and meshes with more polygons (to make things smoother) get optimised? make the textures smaller and less polygons? defeats the entire point of it

 

[Gin Fushicho]

It's all about bragging rights. Little rich kids playing WoW @ 1080P "I need this card because I'm a hardcore gamer and I can pwn you newbs with only 4GB...and Twilight Sparkle IS awesome."

It's all about Pinkie Pie anyway.

 

[Raheel Hasan]

lol 8gb

lol 8gb

 

[Raheel Hasan]

lol 8gb

 

[spat55]

Two of these in crossfire for 1440p eyefinity I just want a single card to be able to do that but this means 4K needs to come out then I will want those in eyefinity 🙁

 

[kryojenix]

Things are not "based off of", they are "based on".

 

[giovanni86]

I always believe that more is better no matter what! Price means nothing to me.

 

[nottorp]

@nottorp I was responding to the article. My point is that they promise big content updates, which is what GW2 does now while not requiring a subscription... If what you say is true, then it is in direct opposition to their claims of content equality (another race for money)...

If what i say is true? Open their site and marvel at the way they push the (more expensive) Imperial Edition

 

[jasonelmore]

what ppl dont realize is, the next gen of consoles have 8GB of unified memory. Some of the first games that have came out for both the Xbox One, and PC, have used large amounts of Video Memory instead of using local RAM.Basicly, all of the new pc games coming out will start using more video memory because thats how they were coded for next gen consoles.

 

[chicofehr]

My soon to be 3x30" setup would really like this. Wish there was a dual GPU card with 8GB per GPU.

 

[g00ey]

Gaming? Let's mine some coin, I'll take 5!

 

[onur_v]

Use Mantle as the api in bf4 @ 1920x1080, open gpu-z in the background, set everything ulta, 2x MSAA and see 3.4GB VRAM usage.

 

[rbarnhart]

I have received confirmation from Sapphire via facebook that the 8GB cards Toxic and Vapor x, are not going to be put into production.