Poll: How much memory would you like your next GPU purchase to have ?

[Kaapstad]

Perhaps a Don could put a poll in this thread.

With all this talk about memory usage on GPUs how much memory would you want your next card to have (4gb, 6gb, 8gb, 12gb, 16gb or 32gb) ?

 

[Kaapstad]

Your question is skewed to favour higher VRAM amounts because of course everyone would "like" as much VRAM as possible on their next GPU.

If a poll is created the question would need to be far more descriptive. Such as how much VRAM do you think enthusiast level Polaris/Pascal GPUs will need to have.

The question is not skewed at all.

If you buy a card with more memory it will cost you more.

The amount of memory on the card also depends on what I would want to use it for. For benching less is better, for SLI/CF more is better, for single card usage somewhere between the two.

The question leaves it entirely up to the individual to decide.

I have also not given a figure in the OP for what I would like to see on my next cards as I did not want to influence the results.

 

[Kaapstad]

If the next Titan is a monster with 16GB then I may plump for a couple

With cards like the Titan or the Polaris equivalent it is best to get them near launch time. Doing this means you get the maximum use out of them before you have to upgrade which in the long run makes them reasonable value for money.

Taking the Pascal Titan for example it is likely to launch before the Ti card and because it has more memory will still be in use after people have stopped using the Ti versions.

 

[Kaapstad]

Well if that's true how can my 980Ti run ROTTR fine at 1440p at ultra settings. Only thing that isn't max is ambient occlusion which is HBAO+ not the max one. And it runs fine at 60FPS only dips under 60 FPS occasionally. To me that suggests that actual memory usage Kaap is seeing is not an actual representation of what the game requires to run at 1080p. It's just because he has 12GB memory buffer and it isnt flushing it because it has memory to spare.

If your card has like 12gb of VRAM games will use more of it for caching, it doesn't mean it requires that to run optimally. There's no way ROTTR needs over 7gb at 1080p...

I agree with the above.

If I had to guess ROTTR needs about 4gb @1080p, 6gb @1440p and 7gb @2160p to run optimally.

The reason I say this is with my Kingpin 980 Ti and TitanX going up against each other the Ti just edges it @1080p and 1440p but the TitanX edges it @2160p.

 

[Kaapstad]

I'm sure it is down to caching, I'm just quoting the amount mentioned.



It requires more than 4 gb's at 1080p otherwise I'd be able to run it with my Fury. Plus you said that when you tested it with a 4gb card it pushed an additional 3 odd gb's through system memory.

And presumably that's why it's a mess with very high textures at 1080p. Unplayable with a Fury.

I am loading it onto my GTX 980 system at the moment to see how NVidia cards run it.

I have seen one 980 result posted and there are a couple of 290X results as well so it can run on 4gb cards but not very well on Fiji cards.

 

[Kaapstad]

I wondered about them too, For me I had stuttering that resulted in minus minimums and many on screen textures missing, One run through had the whole floor texture missing and it's not much better in game, Or at least it wan't when I did my playthrough (2nd patch included). Some maps where unplayable even though the fps was good the stutter was constant. With high texture settings it was smooth as ice.

I suspect the problem with the Fiji cards is more to do with the game devs rather than the fact that they have 4gb of memory.

I will find out how my 4gb 980s go on the bench in a minute.

 

[Kaapstad]

Just tried my GTX 980 on ROTTR bench.

@1080p DX11 it managed just.

@1080p DX12 it struggled a bit.

@1440p Not good at all.

@2160p It ran but so slowly that I got bored and ended the bench early.

 

[Kaapstad]

Was it juddering at 1080 and 1440?

DX11 @1080p was ok.

Dx12 @1080p was about 10fps slower.

1440p was a stutterfest.

 

[Kaapstad]

The Titans are underpowered for a 12gb card. Presumably people are looking at their next cards being on a new node, with sufficient power at 4K to need 8 or 12gb.

No lack of power here, check out the ROTTR bench thread. I managed better than 60fps maxed @2160p.

The mid range Pascal/Polaris cards will be the ones found lacking as they will likely be limited to 8gb from day one.

 

[Kaapstad]

Those are the people you should actually listen to, they are the ones that know you will run out of grunt way way waaaaaaay before memory.

You should see what XCOM 2 does to a 4gb card, it's not pretty.