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Nvidia planned obsolescence VRAM thread

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faceman123 said:
Ironically was in the process of helping a change over from 3070 to 6700xt.

Hwunboxed just dropped a video an hour ago

IMHO any cards with 8GB VRAM are now DOA

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Yep, 8GB is obsolete now, this has been coming for a while and plenty of people have been offering advice against spending a lot on a 8GB card for the last two years. And here we are...
 
Can someone with more free time than I key up the 100s of recent "8GB is plenty" posts? Anyone who's been in this hobby for longer than yesterday knew this was coming considering the consistantly growing textures over the past few years.

Moreover, looks like cards with 12GB will even struggle at 4k.
 
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harmattan said:
Can someone with more free time than I key up the 100s of recent "8GB is plenty" posts? Anyone who's been in this hobby for longer than yesterday knew this was coming considering the consistantly growing textures over the past few years.

Moreover, looks like cards with 12GB will even struggle at 4k.
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According to HUB even the 6GB on the 2060 was supposed to be good for years to come, now he says that he has been warning about low VRAM for years, https://youtu.be/pfnzHA3-MhM?t=700
 
Soon to be over for 10gb users as well then?

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ASMB said:
According to HUB even the 6GB on the 2060 was supposed to be good for years to come, now he says that he has been warning about low VRAM for years, https://youtu.be/pfnzHA3-MhM?t=700
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Same as it ever was. Reminds me of years ago when reviewers of release version 4870 were stating "512mb is just fine" -- and 512mb was solidly outmoded just a few months later forcing AMD/ATI to release the staple 1gb version. Lesson is: don't listen to reviewers or posters, listen to hard data.
 
faceman123 said:
Ironically was in the process of helping a change over from 3070 to 6700xt.

Hwunboxed just dropped a video an hour ago

IMHO any cards with 8GB VRAM are now DOA

Thoughts?
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Unsuitable for Ultra settings = DOA?

The gpu makers will be racing to equip every card they sell with 16GB+ I'm sure.
 
hyperseven said:
If only games had options that allow you tune settings for various setups. Maybe one day, maybe....
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But should users need to do this for cards which are yet to be released. Maybe the game settings aren't the problem - if the VRAM was there the cards would run it perfectly, I recall a 290x 8gb version in 2013,
 
A 4090 doesn't have great performance with THe LAst of US, so 24GB cards are on their way out too.

The Last of Us, means to some, that they'll definitely be getting a 5090 which hopefully has 48GB or VRAM. This game means you need to spend £1k+ from now on. This conditioniong seems to work well on OCUK members.
 
faceman123 said:
But should users need to do this for cards which are yet to be released. Maybe the game settings aren't the problem - if the VRAM was there the cards would run it perfectly, I recall a 290x 8gb version in 2013,
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4090 doesn't run it perfectly, stutters like Arkright, and runs at <60% gpu utilisation from what I've seen. In fact a 4090 struggled with 1440p

Like you say, everyone needs a 24GB card- top advice.

I have seen someone mention that some 522 NV drivers are having better results.

Really this thread should be closed, as it's another VRAM merry go round.
 
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