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12GB vram enough for 4K? Discuss..

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TNA said:
Victim of what? I have a 12GB card and not had a single game need more.

You and Therealdeal going on about how important vram is and you both rocking 8GB :cry:
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you keep replying to posts directed at someone else, I never even said 12gb was or wasnt enough for anything, you need to start reading and stop posting!
or maybe you are nexus as well :cry:
 
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Bill Turnip said:
I'm not sure it's about extending the life of a card, that wouldn't really be in the interest of the manufacturer. It's a selling point which is the main reason, and a good thing to have, but it seems that the main gain for the manufacturer is for producing bar charts on otherwise impossible to run games with huge comparisons promising up to 3x performance, when the reality is 98% of games see a small uplift at best.
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You think dlss gives a small uplift in most games? That's just not true. I have a 3060ti on my 2nd pc with an ultra wide 1440p, the 60ti drives it easily thanks to dlss. If dlss did not exist, that 60ti would be in need of replacement asap.

Now regarding whether 12gb is enough, i have to say this. Lets take the extreme scenario of 4k native + RT, how many games are not playable with the 4070ti because of the vram limitation? Maybe 1 or 2? Now how many games arent playable on the vastly more expensive XTX because of the rt being 2 years behind?
 
K1LaW8tt5 said:
you keep replying to posts directed at someone else, I never even said 12gb was or wasnt enough for anything, you need to starting reading and stop posting!
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Nah, my reading is fine. You just can't answer simple questions ;)

Don't like my posts? There is a ignore button you can use :D
 
K1LaW8tt5 said:
or maybe you are nexus as well
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Bencher said:
That would make sense, if you could only use dlss with RT. But that is not the case, you can use it without RT, so why would they work so hard on extending the lifetime of the card?
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Killing it for non-RT scenarios will be bad for business now. Having it on, also is a nice features set to be ticked on the box.

For me, the difference in performance for RT + DLSS is worth about 20% extra money on top of the competition when competition has last gen RT performance and a lesser upscaling solution - even now with FSR 3 still missing. So you could say at the same money (7900xt vs 4070ti or 7900xtx vs 4080) and relatively close raster performance, going nvidia (again, to me), is a no brainer. 20gb or 24gb of vram is pure and utter waste and nothing more than a big rock in the customer's pockets.
 
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muon said:
It's easy to forget that FC6 required 12GB when fully loaded.

You can see how the 3070 Ti with 8GB struggles. Way behind the 6800 and 6800 XT.


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It is easy for a reason. The game is crap.

But honestly, the amount of times I read about FC6 from the AMD boys in the 10GB is not enough thread, it will take a very long to forget that game :cry:
 
TNA said:
Yep. That's what gpuerrilla did. He paid an extra £750 got himself a 3090. Money well spent :cry:




Wi have to agree to disagree. I mean if vram is such an issue, how the hell are you still coping on 8GB?




You must love it as you keep coming back for more ;)
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I am coping because War Thunder and Rl can be played at highfps on a potato. The minute i go to a recent game settings have to go. 8gb was overkill compared to Vega's grunt. Thats not the case for a 3080 10gb or 4070ti 12gb. You already know this though.
 
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