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Battlefield 4 Recommended Requirements - 3GB Vram

ashmanuk67 said:
Well i'm worried :( just gone through an upgrade now this api, I always new AMD would bring out a good card for the money and thats a good thing but with this low level API reliant on game and what graphics card you go for well as a consumer i feel deflated.

But on the other hand i do see the sense in this approach and have to say if i had a 7000 AMD series card i would be very excited :cool:

So whats in store for BF4 with Nvidia hardware ? are we going to have very poor support from DICE?? this is the bit i hate the not knowing, I paid a lot of money to have good gaming experience, At least DirectX was uniform an impartial "well i think it is lol"
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Of course you won't, relax. Dice are not going to ditch support for Nvidia users who probably make up half or more of their player base. The only difference might be AMD users running mantle have a performance advantage. That's not to say it will run badly for Nvidia on DX11 API, it will run similar to Battlefield 3, but better optimised for all.
 
Darujhistan said:
And people were telling me 2GB would be good for years to come...
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The thing which concerns me is the unified memory on the next gen consoles.

The roles may be reversed - the consoles having more memory to store higher res textures, and the PC version may have to use lower-res, or compressed textures.
 
FoxEye said:
The thing which concerns me is the unified memory on the next gen consoles.

The roles may be reversed - the consoles having more memory to store higher res textures, and the PC version may have to use lower-res, or compressed textures.
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Isnt this something Maxwell is bringing to the table? Unified memory? I am sure i read that somewhere
 
The whole vram argument is mostly irrelevant anyway due to the fact that 99% of the time, you will run out of performance before you do vram and any enthusiast who wants to get the best performance will most likely upgrade every 1-2 years anyway.

I bought got 2x 2GB GTX 670's while they were £160 knowing full well 2gb might not cut the mustard in a year or two' time..in some titles...but i will be selling them for a 20nm single gpu anyway by late 2014 so... : /.

No point feeling smug about having 3gb ram and not 2gb. 3gb 7950 owners we will all be upgrading due to lack of performance before they hit a vram wall anyway....just like 2gb 670 owners.
 
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4GB will not be enough VRAM one day.

There I have said it on 28/9/2013 and I will refer back to this in a couple of years time and say I predicted this years ago :D

That is me out of any VRAM debates, as it only gets me in trouble :D
 
V3teran said:
I said at around 6 months ago or more that 2GB for Gpu's is going to be phased out because of new consoles and buying any gpu with 2GB is a bad move and bad advice as some people here advised in doing so.
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I was doing the same mate and being called an idiot for it...

;)

I advised everyone to do what they could to get a 3BG card, and I think the main reason why the last batch of NV was such a fail was that almost all their cards were still 2GB, they were selling £500 cards with 2GB of VRAM - what a joke!

Yoi could get 3GB on a £200 7950 at the same time.
 
Darujhistan said:
It's not enough already, it wasn't enough 6 months ago if you modded the **** of SKYRIM.
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I'm sure you could "mod the **** out Skyrim" and play it at 2560x 1600 and have 3gb be not enough.... in fact you could probably mod any game so that it uses silly amounts of vram. I don't think that is hugely relevant ...unless your primary gaming is playing heavily modded Skyrim.
 
Darujhistan said:
I was doing the same mate and being called an idiot for it...

;)

I advised everyone to do what they could to get a 3BG card, and I think the main reason why the last batch of NV was such a fail was that almost all their cards were still 2GB, they were selling £500 cards with 2GB of VRAM - what a joke!

Yoi could get 3GB on a £200 7950 at the same time.
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Well, AMD are still churning out 2GB mid-range and mid-high cards... the 280X (£250) is the first card in the R9 range to feature more than 2GB.

So must have us are going to have to continue with 2GB regardless (that's most in the real world, not most on this forum :p I expect results here would be a tad... skewed :p)
 
Good point Foxy bingo. If it was a worry, I wouldn't have thought AMD would be releasing their mid to high cards with only 2GB of ram. Only the 290 and 290X having more than 2GB does make you think that 2GB will be good for 1080P for quite a while :)
 
V3teran said:
I said at around 6 months ago or more that 2GB for Gpu's is going to be phased out because of new consoles and buying any gpu with 2GB is a bad move and bad advice as some people here advised in doing so.
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What a hero prediction. As years move on older technology will be phased out....wow...never saw that coming! :rolleyes:

2GB was fine 12 months ago, it's still fine now and I doubt very much anyone with 2GB will have any problems running titles at 1920x1080 for ANOTHER 12 months.

Hell, I played BF3 on a 1GB 285GTX with acceptable framerates at 1920x1080.

Plumping for a 2GB card was not bad advice at all, as stated TIME AND TIME AND TIME AND TIME again - You are going to run out of performance grunt before mythical VRAM limits is ever an issue. If you think a 3GB card over a 2GB card is going to last you much longer from a performance point of view you are just wrong. 1GB of extra VRAM is not going to bolster all out GPU grunt.
 
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omg one game uses lots of VRAM when running crazy settings, lets buy a new graphics card for just that game. Plays game, turns the ULTRA shadows to medium, Vram level is now acceptable :p
 
Gregster said:
Good point Foxy bingo. If it was a worry, I wouldn't have thought AMD would be releasing their mid to high cards with only 2GB of ram. Only the 290 and 290X having more than 2GB does make you think that 2GB will be good for 1080P for quite a while :)
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I am pretty sure the r9 280 series are 3gb cards as some are saying they are pretty much identical to the 7970/7950.
 
TheRealDeal said:
I am pretty sure the r9 280 series are 3gb cards as some are saying they are pretty much identical to the 7970/7950.
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Apparently the R280X (7970) and higher are 3GB.

The R270X (7950 lite) and below are 2GB.

It's odd that they'd cut the VRAM from the 7950, but apparently that's what they've done.

So the 7850,7870,7950 re-brands all get 2GB this time.
 
FoxEye said:
Apparently the R280X (7970) and higher are 3GB.

The R270X (7950 lite) and below are 2GB.

It's odd that they'd cut the VRAM from the 7950, but apparently that's what they've done.

So the 7850,7870,7950 re-brands all get 2GB this time.
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Such little difference between the 7950/7970 its hardly surprising. The 7970 is now at 7950 pricing abnd Gibbo hinted that will be its new long term price £240ish. Expecting to get 3gb vram on a new version 7950 costing £180 or less is asking a bit too much i think.
 
LtMatt said:
Such little difference between the 7950/7970 its hardly surprising. The 7970 is now at 7950 pricing abnd Gibbo hinted that will be its new long term price £240ish. Expecting to get 3gb vram on a new version 7950 costing £180 or less is asking a bit too much i think.
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Something I don't get is the R9 290X is billed as a 4K capable card yet 4gb of vram is not enough at that resolution.:eek:

There is more chance of BF4 running maxed on my GTX 690s @1080 than there ever will be of getting it to do the same even with 4 x R9 290X cards @4K.:eek:
 
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