Would 256mb of vid ram justify the price difference?

[Luminescent]

Aside from core and memory clock speeds, for upcoming games between now and Ati/Nvidias next processor, how would amount of memory make a difference? I know it means less agp bus and hard-drive access, but what would require such a load of memory?

 

[Althornin]

high res FSAA

 

[JD]

Vertex and index buffers for static meshes, mipmapped texture levels, cubemaps, offscreen render targets, etc.

 

[dominikbehr]

it helps a lot when you want to play at high res and 6x aa, there is much less texture trashing

and it is a cool thing for people who use lot of 128bit floating point rendertargets

 

[Luminescent]

Is everyone up reading reviews? It is late where I'm at (actually early, 1:39 AM) and this thread has recieved 4 replies in around 4 minutes. I'll get some rest, interesting as conversation might be. You guys should get some rest too.

 

[Ante P]

high res FSAA

no, the limit would still be 1600x1200

or perhaps you just meant it would be more playable, if so: sorry

 

[Ante P]

Is everyone up reading reviews? It is late where I'm at (actually early, 1:39 AM) and this thread has recieved 4 replies in around 4 minutes. I'll get some rest, interesting as conversation might be. You guys should get some rest too.

it's 8 AM over here

haven't slept since yesterday

got a job interview in a few hours, hehe they'll probably think I'm on crack or something lol