Didn't even hit 8GB
Was using about 13.5Gb on mine last night.
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10GB vram enough for the 3080? Discuss..
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Was using about 13.5Gb on mine last night.
Were you running the game at native resolution and max setting on a GTX970? Surely you’d be getting like 10FPS? It might not even be texture scaling but just layers of texture missing.
Running at 1680x1050 with most things on LOW or disabled, except for view distance and textures on HIGH and AA (Temporal) on MID. TBH I'd just assumed it was a 970 thing due to the 3.5+0.5 VRAM debacle and debate whether Nvidia did any driver 'massaging'. Yes I'd get the occasional stutter and whatnot but nothing like the hitching, bordering on stalling really I used to get on my GTX470 back in the day when I turned things up too high.
Guess it’s a tough one to compare with such a performance leap, but I bet you’re loving the new card
And then came the 3060 with 16GB
Time for an upgrade to a 6800 XT, if we can find you some stock.
Oh I'd jump on one of those bad boys, it's not starved of vram, that's for sure!
3060 has 12GB.
The worst buy ever - 10GB GPU for only 1690 euros, in comparison the 16GB 6800 XT retails for just 1190 euros.
To cry or what...
Guess the GBP has soared as mine cost £720. If I needed more VRAM I'd have gone 3090, while keeping all the good things such as ray tracing and DLSS
The worst buy ever - 10GB GPU for only 1690 euros, in comparison the 16GB 6800 XT retails for just 1190 euros.
To cry or what...
Who's buying a 3080 for that price? I mean if, at the time of wanting to buy a card, those were your two options, I'd pick neither, they're both extortion.
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Silly comment. If you want one you just watch a bot alert and buy one at £649. At least they do come in stock at that price. Many of us here got one like that.
And it's only GDDR6 rather than 6X.
Nvidia are a bit all over the place with VRAM these days though.
The miners - and if you have 20, they will buy all 20
Yea, I guess if you're making money from it you can justify the cost, although it's going to take a while. Same situation with someone dropping 2k on a 3090 for work purposes; I can fully understand that.
I have been randomly checking Vram usage in Warzone and it has been around 8gb max but jumping into Zombie mode on Cold war tonight I noticed over 12gb, anyone else noticed this?
Everything on max settings with ray tracing on ultra.
Everything on max settings with ray tracing on ultra.
This supports what you are seeing. Although I understand consumer benchmark programs show allocated vram memory which might not be the actual amount in use, just what the program has asked to be made available for use if it wants it. This claims to show both usage and allocation
https://youtu.be/l2Ws3iARMkQ?t=496
As a side note the 6800 is much more power efficient than the 3070
https://youtu.be/l2Ws3iARMkQ?t=496
As a side note the 6800 is much more power efficient than the 3070
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No..
"Bottom line is that if you game at 4k and want to max most or all settings, then 10GB is not enough. V-RAM gets eaten up like it's nothing at high resolution with max settings. And thanks to the 450w BIOS for the FTW3, you can stay over 60 FPS in most games and are limited only by the 10GB's of V-RAM."
https://forums.evga.com/Has-anyone-...nd that is 10GB of,most or all settings maxed.
"Bottom line is that if you game at 4k and want to max most or all settings, then 10GB is not enough. V-RAM gets eaten up like it's nothing at high resolution with max settings. And thanks to the 450w BIOS for the FTW3, you can stay over 60 FPS in most games and are limited only by the 10GB's of V-RAM."
https://forums.evga.com/Has-anyone-...nd that is 10GB of,most or all settings maxed.
From the thread you posted, last comment:
"I've never felt that the amount of VRAM a card requires is a question of just matching X amount of memory to Y model GPU.
Because the missing part of the equation will always be your display. In my simple minded way of looking at hardware needs, faster display & games = prioritize faster GPU, larger resolution & eye candy = prioritize more memory.
If you put in front of me a 4k 75hz display, and a 1440p 144hz display on one side of my desk, and then laid out a 3060 Ti 8gb and the new 3060 12gb on the other, and asked me which card goes with which display, I would pair the 3060 non-Ti to the 4k display and expect it to be better for games like Red Dead and Cyberpunk, and the 3060 Ti with it's faster chip but shrimpy buffer size to the 1440p and expect it to be the better pick for BOps Cold War or Battlefield V.
Because one display needs pixels, and the other needs speed. Measuring between eye sugar and wrist twitch.
Now that I've had my 3080 long enough to truly wring it out, I feel that 90% of the time, yes 10gb is sufficient for 4k 144hz. Barely. It's just that last 10% of the time, oddities and high demand jobs, like interpolating 30 fps video up to 60, it is not. But that's a productivity function, not a gaming one. I'll not feign some sort of disappointment that it should've been both. Which is why I am disappointed that the 3080 Ti got pushed back outside of my Step Up window, because I now feel a need for double the memory. Just not for gaming. I've been playing BOps II at 4k 144hz with a middling-level of ray tracing eye candy active since I got it, and rarely will it dip below 120 fps, and certainly never below GSync thresholds."
Oof, you've gone and done it now. Well at least he's using a 3080.
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