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So 1-2 cards is not enough grunt for 4K and 3-4 cards is not enough VRAM for 4K? (AMD or Nvidia)
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Poll: Are You Going To Purchase a 4K Monitor?
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So 1-2 cards is not enough grunt for 4K and 3-4 cards is not enough VRAM for 4K? (AMD or Nvidia)
damn. Really want 4k to happen for me soon.
I used to be in the £100 gpu bracket. Have recently justified moving into the £200 bracket. Would move to the £300 bracket for 4k, but I dont see that being enough anytime soon
I used to be in the £100 gpu bracket. Have recently justified moving into the £200 bracket. Would move to the £300 bracket for 4k, but I dont see that being enough anytime soon
He didnt say that its not entirely true but a sweeping statement. It depends on your point of view and whether you are happy with SLI and 4k. I am.
+1, I would get one but even my xfire 290s would struggle with high end titles. I'll be waiting until 2 decent cards can mac most games at 4k, not counting AA of course.
For most games @4K using 3 or 4 cards 4gb is plenty but you do get some that could use more VRAM with that many cards.
Remember I bought 4 x 980s after I had a 4K monitor and don't have a problem with the 4gb on them.
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27" 1440p is fine for me until it breaks and tend to have a dual monitor setup due to PC used for work too. Anything > 27" and will feel monitors too far apart and 4k at 27" is probably not so great for text(?) (that's a question there for someone).
You know, Last night I played some counter strike for the first time in about 7 years,
And I had a weird dream that I had my old rig, x850xt, amd 3200 processor back and my old LG Flatron F700B 17" crt @ 1280x1024,
I wish I had that monitor still to hook up now and test to see what everything looked like! cause from what I remember it looked better than my monitor does now lol, but that's just a old memory I guess.
As to will I be going 4k, not for the next few years I don't think, 1080 is fine for me infact iv only recently gone 1080 from 1680x1050
And I had a weird dream that I had my old rig, x850xt, amd 3200 processor back and my old LG Flatron F700B 17" crt @ 1280x1024,
I wish I had that monitor still to hook up now and test to see what everything looked like! cause from what I remember it looked better than my monitor does now lol, but that's just a old memory I guess.
As to will I be going 4k, not for the next few years I don't think, 1080 is fine for me infact iv only recently gone 1080 from 1680x1050
im gonna get a small 4k for the hidpi effect later in the year, i have a mbp retina at work, and although i hate osx i love the hidpi screen, 4k at 24-27" will do me, ill just turn the games down to 1080 so im still within reach of single card gaming 
(only untill single cards catch up to 4k)
(only untill single cards catch up to 4k)
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I believe it was AMDMatt that said that 4GB was not enough for 4K (I sort of argued against the sweeping statement at the time, if I recall correctly) which is why Matt was going to do the comparison (not to prove me wrong, just to prove what he had been saying).
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Makes you wonder about the validity of any benchmarks if that the case.
If the 4GB rumours are true then I guess AMD are releasing their new card for benchmarkers rather than gamers then.
Still be interested to see the comparison.
No sweeping statements GM, just fact based on real world testing using maximum settings, four gpus and a 4K monitor. I said it's not enough if you like to use maximum settings and 3-4 graphics cards. Only in a couple of rare exceptions (Shadow Of Mordor/BF4 Mantle) could you use more than 4GB at 4k and possibly keep playable fps whilst using 1-2 gpu's.
This is correct. When you have four gpu's video memory becomes a concern because you have the physical gpu grunt to drive higher presets and aa settings which in turn consumes more memory. When using one or two cards, this is much less of a problem as the grunt is not available.
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The sweeping statement was that "4GB is not enough for 4K". I've got games I can max out at 4K that don't need more than 4GB or more than 1 card (as mentioned before). I'm sure there are some cases where it's not enough, but currently they are the exception rather the the rule (I'd guess).
I'd imagine the list of games that do use more than 4GB @ 4K makes up less than 1% of games.
4gb is not enough in the games i listed, but as said you need 3-4 gpus to be able to have the grunt to use that much memory. For most other games though 4gb is fine, as previously said. The original conversation though was debating the merits of 8gb at 4K gaming and if it was even needed as no game would use that much memory.