[Computerbase] - 3gb vs 4gb vs 6gb vs 8gb GDDR5 VRAM Frametime Testing

[Final8y]

With availability of consoles Xbox One and PlayStation 4 has also for PC gamers a lot done. This was foreseeable, set both consoles but also for the first time on classic PC components. Games for consoles and PCs are characterized moved closer together technically, the influence of the closed system of the PC has increased.

Consoles have plenty of space for textures

Particularly visible is in the use of games Textures: both have Xbox One and PlayStation 4 8GB of RAM, which is shared by the CPU and GPU. Developers use this space to provide games with high-resolution, detailed textures.

The consequence for the PC: While 4,096 MB and a half years ago, have been generally sufficient to play games in Full HD at maximum details smoothly, there are now a few titles that with only 4 GB of VRAM for security no longer offer the maximum level of detail in the textures menu. Others do it and make problems.

How much VRAM need a graphics card?

After the test the GeForce GTX 1060 with 3GB that in otherwise undemanding settings gets big problems in some games to Computer Base takes the theme VRAM in this article again in detail.

How much VRAM may already be for Full HD of distress today, Overclockers testing in four current games on graphics cards with 3, 4, 6 and 8 GB. All models are taken from the current middle class.

https://www.computerbase.de/2016-09...rne_spiele_brauchen_viel_grafikkartenspeicher

 

[Final8y]

spot the unoptimized games also out of those

oh thats right, all of them

4gb at 1080 is fine.

Unoptimized or not thats how much Vram they need.

 

[Final8y]

Not really it is just how much Vram they used, not how much was actually needed, or as the article puts it.

Semantics.

 

[Final8y]

well you may know or not that cod since mw2 has had the same vram bug in it.so whats that ten years ? same bug every year.black ops 3 has it.

so thats unoptimized.

new deus ex was same was mainly the drivers. so i not going to argue about buggy games causing the very issues people are using them to highlight vram issues.

Im not debating whether or not somthing is optimized or not, the point is games like this do exist and if a user wants to cover there self then get a card with more Vram, no one is forcing anyone to buy a card with more Vram, don't confuse informing people with forcing people.

 

[Final8y]

well i was just saying the games shown were unoptimized.with optimizing the vram limits wouldnt of been pushed.

cod doesnt use anywhere as much vram once they fix the issue after launch.they do it every year since mw2 .

true if you got more vram it helps if a game is unoptimized but what if a game is so unoptimized with a issue you cant buy a card with enough vram to play it ?

is that down to you not having enough vram or a poorly made game ?

when you playing cod and its using 12gb vram at 1080 you know its BS got nothing to do with having enough vram.

There are way too many IF in relation to an article with factual results whether you like the results or not or for whatever the reason for the results does not change the facts that if some one wants to play these games at a given setting and resolution in there current state then this is whats adviced whether we like it or not.