Soldato
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See all the gaming benchmarks with those lovely on screen benchmarks and I can’t see why you’d need this much VRAM?
16 is enough isn’t it
16 is enough isn’t it
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As others have already said yes, overkill for games BUT not other appsDid a 3090 need 24? It’s an overkill product, with overkill specs. Somewhat helps them justify the crazy pricing.
As an aside - the last DCS update has improved the VRAM usage apparently.I would buy whichever card came with 24GB. Seems odd that there isn't a 24GB offering.
Running the 3080Ti at the moment, and DCS (flight sim) has been developed in a way that it wants more VRAM than the 12GB on the 3080Ti. So having been caught out once, I'm not prepared to take a chance on 16, so 24 is the minimum I'm considering for my next GPU card (4090 or 5090).
it has a bit, and it is nice to see ED making some small steps in the right direction after a nightmare 6 months.As an aside - the last DCS update has improved the VRAM usage apparently.
Nate
Aren't the xx90 series the Titan replacement? So they're kind of aimed at the prosumer market. There's definite uses for that much vram for people at home, but not for gaming.
He only skimps on low and midrange cards high on cards its full on overkill. Its more to do with marketing than usefulnessI'd rather see the 5090 come with 48GB of vram.
We shouldn't desire lower amounts of vram on the highest end cards. Jensen Huang is already going fully-Scrooge when it comes to skimping on vram.