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You're irony detector must be defective
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10GB vram enough for the 3080? Discuss..
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You're irony detector must be defective
It seems the lack of VRAM on the 3080 was so it could hit a price point which is stupid given current pricing but when it comes to the 3060 6GB VRAM isnt enough but 12 is.
I dont know why but years ago one had a choice of VRAM on the same model but this choice was taken away from the consumer.
Given current pricing? Maybe they should use their time machine to get the lottery numbers, or do you think it only works for GPU demand? More VRAM = higher cost + lower availability. They'd skip an entire market segment and only appeal to a niche, whereas the current 3080 is a well balanced card for its target market.
6GB of VRAM won't age well, even at 1080p, and they are limited by the interface so 12 was the better option.
You're irony detector must be defective
There are more than enough people on this forum who wouldn't say that ironically, so my comment still stands
Just start from the beginning.I've only played the benchmark so far Lol.
I can give it a go though and see what the video memory usage is. Is there any particular level or area to test or can i just start from the beginning?
I've never played these games before so have no idea what to do.
Doubt it's high as we would have heard about it by now.
It was more to see if AMD are 'demanding high vram usage' on all their titles or just that one game.
I already know the answer, but I will check just to see if there is anything nefarious going on.
It seems the lack of VRAM on the 3080 was so it could hit a price point which is stupid given current pricing but when it comes to the 3060 6GB VRAM isnt enough but 12 is.
I dont know why but years ago one had a choice of VRAM on the same model but this choice was taken away from the consumer.
The 3060 memory BUS dictates multiples of 6GB. 6GB would be too low with consoles targeting 10GB. It's also worth noting that the 3060 is using the lower cost/performing GDDR6 instead of GDDR6X.
I don't think many would buy a 20GB 3080 as those who would consider it should be waiting for the 3080Ti. There is also the 24GB 3090 available. I certainly wouldn't want to spend more than £750 on a one gen card.
So far I've played Metro Exodus, AC Valhalla, Control and Kingdom Come Deliverance at 4k with max settings, on my 3080. Highest I've seen it is about 8GB and I haven't experienced any weird lows, indicating VRAM bottlenecks. I don't know how these titles compare to others for VRAM usage, but so far so good.
Great find, that deserves its own thread to discuss performance rather than take this one off topic.
So 10GB should be fine until next year when the 4080 and AMD’s next gen offerings are out. Just as I thought
Same here, played many modern demanding games. All been perfectly fine.
Will be interesting to see when we will get the next gen game (worth playing) that will run 4K60fps but need more than 10GB vram. All the games I am waiting on to play before selling my 3080 later this year like Dying Light 2, Bloodlines 2, Resident Evil Village should run fine is my guess. There are no games coming out in 2022 that I look forward to, so will probably just end up with a 4070 next year.
Godfall also with the 3080 having 40% lower minimum FPS than the 3090 despite only 10% ish perf difference between the GPUs.@TNA You don’t have to wait. HZD already uses 13Gb and it effects the LOD if you don’t have enough.
Someone posted it up a couple of weeks ago I think.
Admittedly it’s the only one I’ve seen that makes a visible difference.
I could try it and see as I picked it up cheaply when bored one day. Lucky it was cheap or I’d have been pee’d!
Godawful more like.
@TNA You don’t have to wait. HZD already uses 13Gb and it effects the LOD if you don’t have enough.
Someone posted it up a couple of weeks ago I think.
Admittedly it’s the only one I’ve seen that makes a visible difference.
Except that was quickly proven wrong with someone else on a 8gb GPU posting the same area/pillar and it looked the same as the 6800xt GPU screenshot.....
Not to mention, a patch was released to address missing textures/textures no properly loading.
@TNA You don’t have to wait. HZD already uses 13Gb and it effects the LOD if you don’t have enough.
Someone posted it up a couple of weeks ago I think.
Admittedly it’s the only one I’ve seen that makes a visible difference.
Fake news and a game no one cares about, not to mention the graphics are nothing special anyway, so why the extra vram needed? Lol.
I did say a game worth playing after all
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