vram.

[Michael Durrant]

is 12-16gb vram acceptable in 2025 for new cards or not. todays demanding hardware on aaa games most cards from nvidia is low vram. would like to see new cards with more than what they are at currently, especially seeing the 5080 being only 16gb

 

[Bidley]

I think it will be for 2025, beyond that who knows. PS5 only has 16gb (shared).

It's important to note that just because a game will use more than (say) 12gb VRAM, doesn't mean it needs it. Similar to how upping your power limit on your GPU will see it use that budget, but not gain much more performance.

I agree though, going from a gen where AMD's cards had 16, 20 and 24, and Nvidia's upper offerings having 16 and 24, it does seem stingy to not increase that for this gen. It looks more and more like the 5000 Super series will be what everyone wanted from this release.

As always though, 3rd party benchmarks will be revealing.

 

[Michael Durrant]

I think it will be for 2025, beyond that who knows. PS5 only has 16gb (shared).

It's important to note that just because a game will use more than (say) 12gb VRAM, doesn't mean it needs it. Similar to how upping your power limit on your GPU will see it use that budget, but not gain much more performance.

I agree though, going from a gen where AMD's cards had 16, 20 and 24, and Nvidia's upper offerings having 16 and 24, it does seem stingy to not increase that for this gen. It looks more and more like the 5000 Super series will be what everyone wanted from this release.

As always though, 3rd party benchmarks will be revealing.

im still running amd. i dont know if i want to go nvidia or stick with amd at this point, from this dlss, fg stuff i keep seeing. holding on to see these benchmarks in a few weeks (be interesting, especially the 5090 results)...

 

[humbug]

Yes tho 12GB is borderline for some games at 1440P, 16GB no problem...

 

[NZXT30]

16GB will be fine until the PS6.

 

[Bidley]

I actually think the 5090 benchmarks will be the least interesting. It's going to be the fastest card on the market. If it's less than 100% faster than the 5080 it'll be funny though!

 

[Grim5]

Here we go again, another "is my vram enough thread", like clockwork

 

[Michael Durrant]

Here we go again, another is my vram enough thread, like clockwork

i must have not seen the other threads!

 

[Gray2233]

i must have not seen the other threads!

It happens every generational launch, "how much VRAM is enough?" is a question as old as time at this point, I've seen back and forth over it since the 90's.

Fortunately there's actually a lot more relevance to the argument currently, whereas many moons ago it was largely fearmongering and upselling often useless products (double VRAM card variants that were usually too slow to utilise it anyway) to low information buyers.

@humbug I'd say 12gb is borderline in one or two instances at 1080P, it was for me when I was still running a 2560x1080 (ultrawide) monitor, but it is an acceptable amount for a 1080P card assuming the user will keep the thing for 2-3 + years.

The 5070 should have been the 5060 imo.