is 2gb not enough?

[robertchalmers1]

Im trying to do some research for my next purchase and it looks like 2gb vram is no longer really enough. The cards I were looking at was the gtx 770 which mainly comes with 2gb vram and the occasional, highly priced 4gb ram. On closer reading it appears that the 770s dont have enough grunt to make use of the 4gb anyways.

Basically if the general consensus is 2gb is no longer enough why did nvidia release mid-high end cards with onky 2gb ram?

im trying to wisely choose my card that will hopefully last as long as possible but stuck now as what to do

any help or advice in the right direction really appreciatec

 

[Randomface74]

1 is not rly enough
2 is fine for 1920x1080
3 is fine for 2560x1440

eyefinity fits in there somewhere but not sure where

 

[Beerbaron]

Depends on what games you play but would start to struggle with new games.

 

[Rasch]

You just turn back some AA and its done and your fine.

 

[Gregster]

1 is not rly enough
2 is fine for 1920x1080
3 is fine for 2560x1440

eyefinity fits in there somewhere but not sure where

Agreed with this.

1080P and 2GB is fine. Any higher resolution and 3GB would be recommended

 

[almighty15]

This time next year 2Gb will be no where near enough for 1080p

 

[Uncle Petey]

 

[almighty15]

??

 

[Gregster]

This time next year 2Gb will be no where near enough for 1080p

What makes you say this?

 

[Uncle Petey]

??

Oh, come on

 

[whyscotty]

This time next year 2Gb will be no where near enough for 1080p

Maybe not for max settings on certain games, but still good enough for 1080

Spoiler

 

[almighty15]

What makes you say this?

Common sense..... Battlefield, Crysis, Thief.... All run on game engines that were with the 512Mb memory limit of PS3 and 360.

This time next time most if not all major game engine would have upgraded to take advantage of the 5-5.5Gb of memory PS4 and Xbone have.

Texture detail and memory consumption are going to increase rapidly over the next couple of years.

 

[Randomface74]

I expect that'll tie in to unified memory.

 

[Gregster]

Common sense..... Battlefield, Crysis, Thief.... All run on game engines that were with the 512Mb memory limit of PS3 and 360.

This time next time most if not all major game engine would have upgraded to take advantage of the 5-5.5Gb of memory PS4 and Xbone have.

Texture detail and memory consumption are going to increase rapidly over the next couple of years.

But these games that require more than 2GB at 1080P will also require more grunt than what we have. Sure you can stick loads of textures/lighting/tessellation that requires tons of VRAM but you will also need something more powerful than what is currently out.

I did some looking for games coming out in 2014 and the only games that have a chance of breaching the 2GB/1080P limit is The Witcher 3 - GTAV. I can't see anything else that remotely looks like it will but I am happy to be wrong.

 

[Kaapstad]

My GTX 690 is more than happy to take on any 4gb card at any resolution up to 1600p

Name your bench

Any challengers.

 

[Uncle Petey]

Kaapstad's 690 is the Bolo Yeung of GPU's.

Spoiler

 

[almighty15]

My GTX 690 is more than happy to take on any 4gb card at any resolution up to 1600p

Name your bench

Any challengers.

Crysis 1 at 1440p with 4xMSAA+4xTrSSAA

 

[Rusty0611]

Yeah because that's realistic .

Is TrSSAA even an option in game?

 

[robertchalmers1]

So best to stsy away from the nvidia 770 2gb cards and look at the 3gb amd cards?

 

[Kaapstad]

Crysis 1 at 1440p with 4xMSAA+4xTrSSAA

That is not a GPU benchmark, it is a CPU bench lol.

We are talking about modern games with lots of vram requirements, come on you can do better than that.