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As our games continue to become even more robust, it would seem likely that having more memory available to the GPU would prove useful, but are we soon to see 2GB cards become commonplace? After many completed tests with Sapphire's Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X 2GB, we're having a hard time settling on that.
You can read our full review here and discuss it here!
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very nice review man!
Sapphire's Vapor-X is headon with HIS's iCooler!
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Your first table has an error. The Eyefinity version has 2 GB of memory.
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No, that was a typo, doh. Fixed, thanks for pointing out
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