Poll: How much VRAM would you want on your next GPU purchase

[Gregster]

Hopefully a mod will add a poll for this and it would be interesting to see what people think and want on their next purchase.

 

[Gregster]

8GB would be plenty for me as well. Even if I go back to 4K, I would still say 8GB would be fine.

Cheers Setter, I asked for less than 2GB - 2GB - 4GB - 8GB - more than 8GB, so if 6GB could be added as well (I missed that ) that would be cool

 

[Gregster]

Thanks for adding the poll DJ

 

[Gregster]

Have you ran 4k yet? or, more specifically, ran it on £1400 worth of video cards only to get 38 FPS as your min and hovering around 60 as your average?

LOL, you need a lot of power for it, so dreaming of 8k is, well, dreaming.

Come back down to earth Woman

Fixed

 

[Gregster]

How much VRAM would you want on your next GPU?

Pretty obvious which way this was going to go. People will always want more than what they currently have whether they need it or not.

Well I would have been happy if the TX had 6GB in truth but it is nice to have a little future proofing in the VRAM department, that way you can throw more cards at it without worrying about hitting the VRAM limit.

 

[Gregster]

Right, who voted for less than 2GB?

 

[Gregster]

32GB minimum.

I bet you clicked the "under 2GB" option....

 

[Gregster]

Pretty much "want on your next purchase" is how I intended it. For reference, I voted for 6GB, purely on the basis of what I feel I will need over the next year or so. If it comes with more, a bonus but if it comes with less, meh! But I would want 6GB ideally as a minimum.

I tried to keep it simple

 

[Gregster]

Very surprised at the stats...63% of peeps want 8GB or more

Shows what way most generally think when it comes to future VRAM demands

 

[Gregster]

Personally I see 8 as a good amount for the ‘non-titan enthusiast’, a single £500 – 600 card should have enough grunt to at least make use of 8gb by itself and in sli/crossfire enough vram to cope with the higher resolutions the extra processing power should let you reach.


Which is exactly the sort of card I am looking for and sort of what I wanted the 980 to be from the start.

I was tempted to jump on a couple of 980s but the 4GB was a non starter for me and grabbed another Titan in place of. Very fast cards but I would feel slightly limited on resolution choices.