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4GB VS 8GB

~>Dg<~ said:
tbh this is close to the truth.

why ?

games need to sell. so many on here keep falling for all the vram arguments.

if the vram is more than the masses posses then the game doesn't sell ;).

3.5-4gb will be fine for 99 percent for next 2 yrs.
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Was reading this thread and thought I would give my new Far Cry 4 game a spin. So I ran the game at 1080p first on my Msi Gaming R9 290 4Gb card, settings were all on high and vram peaked at 2876mb. I then ran the game at 3840X2160, again all settings on high and vram usage peaked at 3863mb, wow wait a minute that's getting pretty close to 4Gb. Now I havn't tried very high or ultra settings as my card was warming up very nicely, peaked at 77c @ 1080p and 80c (was surprised the difference was so close)@4K. Don't know how accurate these findings are, was recorded with gpu-z, gpu usage was 100%. All I can say is I need an 8Gb card and that will be my next purchase, when the newer cards come out. :eek:
 
rolypolyman said:
Was reading this thread and thought I would give my new Far Cry 4 game a spin. So I ran the game at 1080p first on my Msi Gaming R9 290 4Gb card, settings were all on high and vram peaked at 2876mb. I then ran the game at 3840X2160, again all settings on high and vram usage peaked at 3863mb, wow wait a minute that's getting pretty close to 4Gb. Now I havn't tried very high or ultra settings as my card was warming up very nicely, peaked at 77c @ 1080p and 80c (was surprised the difference was so close)@4K. Don't know how accurate these findings are, was recorded with gpu-z, gpu usage was 100%. All I can say is I need an 8Gb card and that will be my next purchase, when the newer cards come out. :eek:
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I had the same yesterday on Evolve 4048MB used on high settings, getting around 30 / 35 fps.

Dropped it to low settings and still got the same FPS and vram usage. No matter what settings i changed only teh resolution changed teh fps & Vram usage.

Apparently its from lazy console ports that aren't optimised for pc.
 
Hopefully, with dx12 and Mantle, we'll be able to use the combined amount of GPU vram.

That'd definitely give my trifire tahiti setup more of a lifespan, but I'm not counting on it.
 
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