"Why 10 GB is enough" - written in September 2020 and aimed at 4K gaming.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vram-in-2020-2024-why-10gb-is-enough.280976/
I also remember having a GTX 970 4 GB (3.5 GB) and it took a LOT of settings - textures, resolution, and AA - to overload its VRAM at 3440x1440 in GTA V, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (I think that's the last title I tried it on, can't quite remember if I already had a 1070 Ti at that time, which I then dropped for an RX 5700 XT).
So is it true? Is going beyond the current standard 'almost high-end' VRAM (8GB-10GB) as useless as the increasingly bloated enthusiast uptake of system RAM to 32GB? Or will it be absolutely essential beyond 2020?
Is it like Hardware Unboxed says, that VRAM will be bigger than ray tracing when it comes to future proofing your card beyond 1-2 years (with the obvious annoying proviso you can never future proof anything beyond this exact minute).
Or are they dribbling words like industry hype morons who think they've hit the formula of enriching themselves with views/subs, whilst at all times being useless amateur mouth breathers with the combined knowledge of 'what they managed to google'?
Or is it like said in the original link at the top of this page - that breaching VRAM usage is a paranoid illusion caused by Afterburner and the such misreporting, showing allocated VRAM rather than true VRAM usage, like apparently Special K can report?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vram-in-2020-2024-why-10gb-is-enough.280976/
I also remember having a GTX 970 4 GB (3.5 GB) and it took a LOT of settings - textures, resolution, and AA - to overload its VRAM at 3440x1440 in GTA V, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (I think that's the last title I tried it on, can't quite remember if I already had a 1070 Ti at that time, which I then dropped for an RX 5700 XT).
So is it true? Is going beyond the current standard 'almost high-end' VRAM (8GB-10GB) as useless as the increasingly bloated enthusiast uptake of system RAM to 32GB? Or will it be absolutely essential beyond 2020?
Is it like Hardware Unboxed says, that VRAM will be bigger than ray tracing when it comes to future proofing your card beyond 1-2 years (with the obvious annoying proviso you can never future proof anything beyond this exact minute).
Or are they dribbling words like industry hype morons who think they've hit the formula of enriching themselves with views/subs, whilst at all times being useless amateur mouth breathers with the combined knowledge of 'what they managed to google'?
Or is it like said in the original link at the top of this page - that breaching VRAM usage is a paranoid illusion caused by Afterburner and the such misreporting, showing allocated VRAM rather than true VRAM usage, like apparently Special K can report?