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Depends on the resolution, anything below 4K sure I agree. I have yet to play a game since getting the 3080 Ti that utilises more than 9GB of VRAM, I've played many new games (3440x1440) since Jan!
Using more vRAM mostly happens only when people slap on some very texture heavy mods, with true 4k or even 8k textures, etc. With these applied, I've seen GPU usage come up considerably over 12GB of vRAM but this is rare and user induced.
irrelevant, you have no right telling people what to do. It's their money. If they want it no one has a right to stop them. I too think the 4080 is terrible value and should be avoided. but for other people they may be able to justify it. Maybe they had roughly 1200 to spend, cant go up to 4090 but dont want to go 30 series. Not really any of our business
Always good to have headroom left over for future demands as well as other system tasks.
Guys I think some of you have completely missed a step here and have misinterpreted what I have said. Can we not just enjoy a bit of light-heartedness without the reddit-style high horse attitudes that is seen on a daily nowadays because people take things way too seriously?
Well my Zotac 4090 Airo that was over £2k at launch died shortly after 30 days of use, or should I say it started dying after 5 minutes of use in games that pushed it over about 400w, even with a brand new 1300w Antec (Seasonic) PSU and 13700K CPU. Overclockers sent it back to Zotac for REPAIR over a week ago and I still havent heard anything yet. **** poor service in my opinion.
I had a Zotac and the card was good with a very good core ( nice oc ) and no coil whine at all , unfortunately mine did have faulty fans so i rma it . i was lucky to be able to get an FE on the 2nd drop we had but had i not got that i would have happily got another zotac when i rma mine
This is often a real problem. These days, "GPU accelerated apps" is almost everything. Chrome, Discord, Steam, DWM/Windows, basically any Eletron app, etc. These all eat VRAM in the background.
Firefox - thought that didn't exist anymore! Across all devices, the browser has slid to less than 4 percent of the marketTrue, I tested this out to check something earlier and noted Firefox using the GPU, even though at 0% whilst minimised, the allocation was there inc VRAM:
Whilst minimised, VRAM was reading allocated at 1.4GB for the entire system inc Firefox. Closing Firefox resulted in 0.6GB VRAM allocated for the entire system, so DWM isn't really a factor in this scenario on Windows 11 22H2 at least. Keep in mind that on 22H2 Windows will suspend background processes as long as they comply with the UWP/Power status groups - So effectively many apps could be completely suspended by Windows 11 if they comply with those requirements for Windows to be able to do that. You will see yellow/green icons under the Status column in task manager showing what apps were suspended to improve performance.
Normally when I game I never close Firefox down purely because at this res and all max settings I only see 9GB of VRAM use in RTSS, that's %process% use so only the game using up to 9GB VRAM, so if I had 1.4GB VRAM being used by the rest of the system inc minimised Firefox, then I'd still be under the 12GB of my card.
realistically I would want at least 16GB on my next card because games will get bigger, but I am also keeping an eye on what happens with DirectStorage/RTXIO. There'd be less strain on VRAM if textures are streaming direct to the GPU in realtime going forwards so having to worry about system VRAM use etc should not be a worry if future games are making use of this API I think.
I still use Napster and it works so well!
Ask for your money back and buy something else
I have a Zotac 4090 Airo but used to have a Aorus Master 4090. The Zotac card is slightly faster on benchmarks for whatever reason even though it can only go up to 110% power rather than 133% (maybe a better sample). The design of the Zotac card is pretty ugly in my opinion because I’m a brand snob and don’t like seeing Zotac in big letters on the card lol. One annoying thing is that the performance bios option has a red light that permanently stays on which I find off putting and as a quick fix I just turned the rgb settings to all red. It’s not a bad card at all but I would have preferred to get an Msi or Asus card just out of brand preference. The 5 year warranty on Zotac looks decent though but no idea if they will actually honour the warranty if the card dies. Also the Zotac card was £390 cheaper which was a good result
FWIW, I've mainly used MSI cards over the years, but did buy a Palit card a few years back. Worked perfectly for many years until I eventually sold it on. I was quite impressed, as it was the cheapest card I could find at the time (unlike my Gainward Phantom card where the fans failed..)
I did ask for my money back, but the guy on the phone told me I couldn't because I'd had it more than 30 days. I even offered to pay more for another brand.
