Love how even in the most innocuous of places, Nvidia love to take pops at AMD.
Was just reading
this:
And had a little giggle when I read this part:
"Texture Quality: Adjusts the clarity and quality of textures game wide. With 2GB of Video RAM, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag should remain playable at 2560x1440 with every setting maxed out, and with 4x MSAA enabled. As Metro: Last Light and Assassin’s Creed IV show,
with the right coding an engine doesn’t have to consume massive amounts of VRAM to power a top-quality title."
Thats basically saying there is no need to buy a GPU with 3Gb of ram.
The reason why I believe this even less, is because Titanfall runs really well even on meagre hardware. It was made like that. So saying it can utilise over 2Gb of ram at 1080p I find hard to believe.
It still does not change the fact it is using all available RAM on the Nvidia card,just like with the UE4 based Daylight. Both the AMD and Nvidia 2GB cards perform fine in both games,as they are hardly pushing graphical boundaries.
Certain engines use all available VRAM,just because they can - so that Nvidia dig is rather silly if it is a dig in the first place. The first two are Nvidia sponsored games too.
Now lets look at AC4:
http://i.imgur.com/UDAQWRU.jpg
Lets look at the AMD sponsered Crysis3:
http://i.imgur.com/Jnfsrq1.jpg
Oh! Wait!!
According to GameGPU AC4 uses between 2.2GB to 2.4GB of VRAM at 2560X1600 at VH settings with MSAA and Crysis3 2.2GB to 2.5GB of VRAM at similar settings.
Even the GTX780 6GB shows the same performance as the standard 3GB version:
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/69713-palit-geforce-gtx-780-jetstream-6gb-sli/
But it is a funny statement especially since the high end Nvidia cards have 3GB of VRAM,which is the same as some of the AMD cards.
Maybe the companies should have made the GTX780 and R9 290,2GB cards so that we can all buy them cheaper!!
They could have as my GTX660 has 2GB of VRAM on a 192 bit bus(when it should be 1.5GB or 3GB),just like the GTX660TI.
But the thing is having more VRAM is more about the future,since PC games should get a kick up the back once more and more games target the PS4 and XBox One as the primary consoles. 8GB of RAM in both of them is a massive upgrade over the 512MB the main consoles have ATM,and many games are still coded with the PS3 and XBox360 in mind as the base spec.
However,2GB is fine unless you are running games at very high resolutions,with loads of AA and/or mods.
Don't worry,since if the GTX880 has 4GB of VRAM as standard and the AMD R10 380X has 3GB,I am sure Nvidia PR will say AMD is suxxors since they have less VRAM,just like AMD PR is probably doing too ATM.