Since the 20GB version got mentioned I've been looking around a bit and been seeing quite a back and forth between folks saying 10GB is fine, and others saying some games require 8GB atm (that's actually using, not just allotted) and so if you're not the type to upgrade often then you should wait for the 20GB ones as in the years to come you may need more than 10 and so then the performance would go to hell, or you'd have to play on low textures (like there was tweets from ID's lead tech engine guy saying 8GB will become the absolute minimum you'll need soon, and I pay a bit more attention to that kind of source)... but others saying that only few people will be over 10GB so games probably won't cater to that much so it'll be fine (or can use DLSS to avoid the issue if it's an option and maybe RTX I/O will be available in games to fill the cache faster by the time 10GB isn't enough)... there was threads on here about it too...
But, am I wrong in thinking that's just if you're gaming at 4K? So say you wanted to play at 3440x1440 @144Hz ... that's about 60% of the pixels of 4K, right ... so the 10GB vs 20GB concerns are much less, as you'd be using less VRAM for textures?... or am I totally missing something... the more I read all those back and forth arguments the more my brain got fried well and I didn't nearly make it through all 46 pages of it.
A 3080 I thought might already be overkill for that but I saw some comments saying a 3070 might not cut it as it is more than 1440p especially if you wanted high frame rates (though I thought that was more of a CPU thing), maybe a 16GB 3070(super or whatever) would be a better buy... I wonder when the chunkier ones would be out and how much more they'll cost, I guess maybe nVidia is waiting to see what AMD does... still need benchmarks for the regular 3070 when it's out so I'm getting quite a bit ahead of myself.
