Different Question: 2GB GTX 460, or 1GB GTX 560 Ti?

[Bollwerk]

Unless I'm misunderstanding the way things work, if all 5 toons are in the same location, then the textures should only need to be loaded once in vram.

Surround gaming is definitely a different story though. In those cases, you need to add up the resolution of all the monitors to get your effective resolution, as you said.

For us multiboxers, we are far more limited by CPU and GPU horsepower than VRAM.

I wonder if there is a tool out there to measure VRAM usage...
Edit - Turns out GPU-Z can measure VRAM usage for Nvidia cards, but not ATI. Something about sensors.

P.S. Using AA will also increase VRAM usage.

[daanji]

I recently upgraded to a nvidia 560 ti. When I x5 box at good settings, gpu-z will measure about 900/1024 MB used with the gpu almost maxed out.. I have not tried it at higher settings.