5090 - is 32 GB necessary - is 24?

[Penfold101]

Number go up.

 

[JediFragger]

Number go up.

Along with pricing.

 

[eeii]

32GB for gaming is well over the top. However the AI developers in the company I work for say thanks very much. This is why if the 5090 comes out with 32GB It will be a kings ransom.

 

[Dicehunter]

For Nvidia, Memory is cheap as chips as they get deals in bulk, But more memory means they can put the price higher and higher.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

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

Not at all. There are many people using 4090s who are utilising all the vram, and want more.
As someone else mentioned, it's a card that can game but it many cases it's not the primary focus. They wouldn't be able to achieve overkill at this price bracket.

 

[Poneros]

If you mess around with 8K (kinda, still with DLSS) you can quickly run out of vram particularly with FG enabled since that actually gobbles up memory like crazy. You'd have playable fps otherwise. Let's not even mention adding mods.

f.ex.

 

[Mesai]

There was talk of a local LLM from Nvidia, which will need the VRAM. If it's true, they'll definitely add that as a "feature" for the 5090.

 

[JollyJamma]

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

I’d always want more VRAM even if it’s too much for current games as new games come out with increased VRAM requirements.

That being said, the 5090, 4090 and 3090 are all mostly cut down workstation GPUs with pro-sumer use cases and things like error checking removed.

Nvidia quickly figured out that people would be willing to buy very expensive graphics cards for gaming so they made another segment above the previously top of the range 80 series.

Anyone remember the 8800 Ultra or 480 or 780 being the top of the range and seen as really expensive? Seems affordable now compared to a £2000+ 4090 series.

 

[cosmogenesis]

I’d always want more VRAM even if it’s too much for current games as new games come out with increased VRAM requirements.

That being said, the 5090, 4090 and 3090 are all mostly cut down workstation GPUs with pro-sumer use cases and things like error checking removed.

Nvidia quickly figured out that people would be willing to buy very expensive graphics cards for gaming so they made another segment above the previously top of the range 80 series.

Anyone remember the 8800 Ultra or 480 or 780 being the top of the range and seen as really expensive? Seems affordable now compared to a £2000+ 4090 series.

It’s been said that the 5090 might be 2 to 2.5k

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I’ve seen plenty of games use the whole 24Gb on my 7900XTX. Doubt it’s all really needed, but a flagship card should be overkill imo.

 

[Mesai]

I’ve seen plenty of games use the whole 24Gb on my 7900XTX. Doubt it’s all really needed, but a flagship card should be overkill imo.

Use or allocate? Typically only modded games would ever use that much VRAM.

 

[gpuerrilla]

For Nvidia, Memory is cheap as chips as they get deals in bulk, But more memory means they can put the price higher and higher.

Think about it. The 4060Ti (was it?) came in both 8 and 16gb flavours. The initial gap between both was around $50. To add more on the model doesn't bump up the price exponentially as some seem to think. The end user will foot that $50, but it certainly doesn't cost nvidia that at the factory. It should only bump it up slightly.

If people think gaming doesn't need it then nvidia can quite easily just offer two flavours, most gens they seem to flip around doing so. They can improve compression so applications may deal with it better but it wont always bail out every scenario.

There is talk of 3GB chips on the way which can change the amount the sku's will have but maybe that will be at refresh time with super/Ti's.

 

[Phixsator]

Use or allocate? Typically only modded games would ever use that much VRAM.

Personally I don't care.. I want as much of a vram buffer as possible and for games to stuff as much of their assets into to it to further enhance the overall experience. Currently playing Diablo 4(UW1440p) a bit and that will eat up almost the entirety of my 16gb of vram but it is also ohh soo silky smooth.

 

[Howling]

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

Nothing will justify the £2.5k price tag unless it makes me eggs in a morning and gives me those 'special kisses' downstairs....

 

[Joxeon]

For Nvidia, Memory is cheap as chips as they get deals in bulk, But more memory means they can put the price higher and higher.

Adding $20 more VRAM to a 4060ti then proceeding to charge $100 extra, Nvidia knows what they’re doing.

 

[Mesai]

Personally I don't care.. I want as much of a vram buffer as possible and for games to stuff as much of their assets into to it to further enhance the overall experience. Currently playing Diablo 4(UW1440p) a bit and that will eat up almost the entirety of my 16gb of vram but it is also ohh soo silky smooth.

Obviously you want enough VRAM so that the game isn't swapping active textures, but looking at allocated isn't a measure of usage/that a game would run worse with less.

 

[G J]

Adding $20 more VRAM to a 4060ti then proceeding to charge $100 extra, Nvidia knows what they’re doing.

There're both at it as AMD did something simillar with the 7600XT 16GB which cost $60 more than a 7600 8GB.

 

[Mesai]

Adding $20 more VRAM to a 4060ti then proceeding to charge $100 extra, Nvidia knows what they’re doing.

Must be friends with Apple. $200 for 8GB of RAM.

 

[Grim5]

Along with pricing.

Along with my epeen

 

[Ollie83]

Along with my epeen

99% of the reason I'd buy tbf...