Well for editing and content creation its not a surprise 8gb is not enough...Thought I'd add my two cents.
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Is 8GB of Vram enough for the 3070
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Its not by me, I asked a youtuber to do benchmarks by using the new msi beta... I don't have any of these cards sadly..Can you run Final Fantasy benchmark in this setting? See how it compares to mine?
How has the 3070 been treating you though
How did you get it so fast lol
I failed to get a 3090 on launch and out of curiosity added a 3070 FE to cart and somehow managed to buy it, thought why not keep it lol. 2080 Ti perf for 1/3 is a win.Its not by me, I asked a youtuber to do benchmarks by using the new msi beta... I don't have any of these cards sadly..
How has the 3070 been treating you though
How did you get it so fast lol
True, what res are you at?
At 1080p it should last 4+ years easily no issues for 90% of the games.
at 1440p it should still last 4 years but maybe you will have to downgrade textures on some games that come out as true next gen in 2 years+
I use an LG OLED 48CX for gaming, which it does fine at however I record video at 8K & 4K.
Oh okay
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Huh. So the 8gb 3070 is ripping through Doom Eternal at 4k with ultra nightmare settings, fancy that. I was told repeatedly that the 10Gb 3080 couldnt do it. hmm...
Allocation doesn't = used
Performance should also get better as driver optimisations progress.
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Not me you need to be saying that to
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Glad what I've been saying has been verified by another 3rd party. vRAM usage is almost always lower than what is allocated. The panic over vRAM being a limitation for Ultra settings and high resolution is unfounded.
Yeah, it is Dave he should be telling it to, poor guy went 16gb radeon last gen to make sure he had enough and now cards like the 3070 are spanking his Radeon VII in every game with a measly 8GbNot me you need to be saying that to
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A very subjective question... As you didn't state the use case I guess it could be more than enough if you're playing minesweeper or solitaire
Hey that's not fair! That was before RDNA2Yeah, it is Dave he should be telling it to, poor guy went 16gb radeon last gen to make sure he had enough and now cards like the 3070 are spanking his Radeon VII in every game with a measly 8Gb
Lol
Yea the game allocates upto 9gb vram and creates a memory pool of 9 gigs.. Actual usage is 7.5gb and that too at ULTRA NIGHTMARE settings lol.
If you have to go down a notch in a future game 2 years from now, it won't hurt your game visuals at all, just will reduce the vram usage.
It won't be in 2 years - AMD releases the new consoles this month and new games for them will be released soon. Let's hope the games need 14-15 GB of VRAM to fully utilise the available on the RX 6000 series.
I really doubt games will be allocating that much, but let's see..
for current gen at 4k the standard vram usage is like 6gb-8gb at ultra, next gen seems like it will be 8gb-12gb.
I don't think 16gb will be utilised in any game for atleast another 6 years. That's just me looking at history and speculating, anything could happen...
Games barely touch 8gb now and its the end of this console era where consoles had 8gb of shared ram.
Consoles have 16gb this time, so i don't think 16gb will be used until 2025+