In all seriousness, there has been some really good discussion between at least 3 different threads. 3070/3080 and 6900XT in regards to VRAM usage and how important it is. Anyway for the mods to consolidate the discussion into a single topic?
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I am also concerned that all these VRAM threads have more to do with trying to bash the rival brand and hardly anything to do with games running out of memory.
Its nearly always select Nv supporters saddled with the more expensive lesser vram amount at a comparable performance trying to convince the world its not needed.
There was next to no argument to the Fury though...
Although Iv'e never seen a thread title around the line of:
Can't Amd Cards use less vram to make them even more cheaper than Nvidia?
Can't Amd Cards use less vram to make them even more cheaper than Nvidia?
I actually have unironically made this argument however. Way too many people seem to have this weird notion that somehow the price points of the cards are fixed and that adding more RAM would somehow cost Nvidia/AMD, or that less RAM would allow them to pocket greater profits. That's not how businesses work, if the product costs more to make then you sell it for more, if it costs less to make you sell it for less. What sensible people should want is enough RAM on your card so it's not a bottleneck, but no more.
Perfectly analagous to system RAM, people will avoid putting in 32Gb of RAM when 16Gb will do. Why? because 32Gb costs 2x more than 16Gb.
With cards like the RTX 3080, you may easily get over 60 in many titles, even if exceeding the VRAM capacity.
More GDDR6X is expensive and uses more power than GDDR6, NV is already using at least 320w of power for the RTX 3080, is it a good idea to increase the tdp further? This will just push up the heat and power supply requirements even more.
Although Iv'e never seen a thread title around the line of:
Can't Amd Cards use less vram to make them even more cheaper than Nvidia?
In all seriousness now, NVIDIA are doing their own customers an injustice when they allocate it less VRAM than it's performance equivalent launched with two years ago.
It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't the exact year where the new generation of graphics fidelity is launched.
Indeed and soon enough AMD will have their latest GPUs out which powerful enough to compare and expose any VRAM bottlenecks.