HIGHEST VRAM I ever saw was shadow of the tomb raider peaking at 7.2Gb if I recall correctly, 3440*1440. All other games have sat fair amount less than that. Even then mighty RDR2 system crusher.
My 2080S is poor value but a powerful card, still I can throw more power at nt 5Mp Res 120hz monitor and that is what I will be doing. It will be inevitable I'm the next two years I will need more horsepower whatever, hence selling my 2080S early. I'm going to get at least 70% back on what I bought it for on black Friday last year, not a bad 'rental' price for the second top GPU.
I'm actually ok to buy a 3080 with 10Gb, sure id take more for the same price why wouldn't I. But from past cards and games it'll give you at least three years without reliably coming up to the buffer, more like four years perhaps.
Refreshes happen in some form whatever the climate, supers or node tweaks, of course id rather buy the best finished product halfway into the lifespan but that's exactly that, halfway into things, life's short and I'm an enthusiast, I accept that and work hard for my hobby.
Having said that the GTX 1080 at launch was really expensive, then the Ti came out and it fell massively. I don't see the same situation happening with a product like the 3090 out of the gate at launch, ultimately we can all save money at some point but you gotta wait/not game/be obsessed reading/watching YT endlessly.
I'll let dust settle a bit for a month or two but as winter kicks in the Intel iGPU on my 8600k will suck for real games, currently I'm happy playing red alert remastered
My 2080S is poor value but a powerful card, still I can throw more power at nt 5Mp Res 120hz monitor and that is what I will be doing. It will be inevitable I'm the next two years I will need more horsepower whatever, hence selling my 2080S early. I'm going to get at least 70% back on what I bought it for on black Friday last year, not a bad 'rental' price for the second top GPU.
I'm actually ok to buy a 3080 with 10Gb, sure id take more for the same price why wouldn't I. But from past cards and games it'll give you at least three years without reliably coming up to the buffer, more like four years perhaps.
Refreshes happen in some form whatever the climate, supers or node tweaks, of course id rather buy the best finished product halfway into the lifespan but that's exactly that, halfway into things, life's short and I'm an enthusiast, I accept that and work hard for my hobby.
Having said that the GTX 1080 at launch was really expensive, then the Ti came out and it fell massively. I don't see the same situation happening with a product like the 3090 out of the gate at launch, ultimately we can all save money at some point but you gotta wait/not game/be obsessed reading/watching YT endlessly.
I'll let dust settle a bit for a month or two but as winter kicks in the Intel iGPU on my 8600k will suck for real games, currently I'm happy playing red alert remastered
VRAM requirements at higher resolutions will rise as fidelity and detail increases, especially with heavy use of RT.
