5090 - is 32 GB necessary - is 24?

[cosmogenesis]

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

 

[Captain_Bosh]

For gaming? No. But **90 series Nvidia cards have never been "necessary" for gaming either.

There are other use cases for GPU's though so expect it would be aimed at those users rather than your average gamer.

 

[Rroff]

4K with ultra graphics, especially if a game has an actual worthwhile ultra level, can exceed 16GB. Pretty much nothing needs 32GB now though.

 

[Blackbadger]

640KB of memory ought to be enough for anybody.

 

[Glanza]

Most I've seen my 4090 use is around 20GB VRAM, this is at 4k with max settings.

 

[Petrolhead]

Not for gaming but if your are a creative person it wouls held with Video Editing etc

 

[rare]

Did a 3090 need 24? It’s an overkill product, with overkill specs. Somewhat helps them justify the crazy pricing.

 

[Petrolhead]

Did a 3090 need 24? It’s an overkill product, with overkill specs. Somewhat helps them justify the crazy pricing.

As others have already said yes, overkill for games BUT not other apps

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

I'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.

 

[P.B]

These are a professional card that also games well so I would say yes if you use it for work, but it doesn't seem like there will be much option this time 32 or 16gb.

The gulf between 5090 and5080 is huge this gen it's basically like running sli

 

[Devious]

Don't think i have been near 16GB yet, but this is with 3440,1440 rather than 4K.

 

[benjii]

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.

 

[Littlenose]

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).

 

[tommybhoy]

I've used>21Gb in game@4K no mods.

IF there was~>16gb from 70 series up gaming would be soooooo much smoother.

However GPU companies make far higher profit from imposing software solutions (that impact gameplay in one form or other) rather than supply more vram on ever increasing hardware.

If you truly had 'plenty' of vram you are far less likely to upgrade gen on gen.

 

[Tetras]

Absolutely necessary, these cards cost mega bucks and are marketed to turn on all the shinies, so you'd expect it to last for years without compromise. What current games need is irrelevant to me.

 

[Nate--IRL--]

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).

As an aside - the last DCS update has improved the VRAM usage apparently.

Nate

 

[Littlenose]

As an aside - the last DCS update has improved the VRAM usage apparently.

Nate

it has a bit, and it is nice to see ED making some small steps in the right direction after a nightmare 6 months.

The VRAM has been improved, great in the likes of the Huey or even the Viper, but the Apache still struggles with 12GB, and I'm not even going to try the Phantom.

 

[rare]

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.

Of sorts. They are GeForce cards first and foremost. Titan cards had specific functions beyond additional vram.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

I'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.

He only skimps on low and midrange cards high on cards its full on overkill. Its more to do with marketing than usefulness

 

[Calin Banc]

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