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Why - "Is 'x' amount of VRAM enough" seems like a small problem in the long term for most gamers
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If it was anybofy else, I would have thought that they meant they figuratively threw them in the bin, but since it was Kaapstad it is possible that throwing them in the bin was meant literally.
Oh look, Wrinkly is going on about the utter crud that is CP2077 as if it is some PC Nirvana. How's is your 3770K handling that 3080 lol.
My 3080 plays 2x 4K in VR perfectly as well as can be expected and only 1 very limited scenario does the VRAM limits manifest. Let me guess your pathetic retort... something something RT something something CP2077 is like real life.
It's quite sad to see because sometimes you can engage with a reasonable debate but more often than not you post a one line troll post about how AMD suck and Nvidia = teh aswum. If you don't like being called a Nvidia shill don't act like one.
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When the Furyx was released all that was ever talked about on these forums was how 4Gb wasn't enough.
OK this is a good example of VRAM impacting the 3070, if it's the same benchmark I looked though it's not about 4k res (the 3070 is level pegging with the 2080ti at 4k), it's about 4k max settings and RTX at the same time. Would love to get my hands on these setup and do some tweaking of the settings to see if you can alleviate this. But to be fair the 208ti had a MRSP over £1k whereas the 3070 is below £500, these high end cards typically come with a fistful of VRAM. I think it's better to compare with the 3060 12GB, this beats the 3070 at 4k Max RTX, as does the 6700XT. I simply wouldn't use those settings though because the framerate is too low for my liking on all these cards, which is what I frequently come back to when assessing this, in order to create a VRAM bottleneck you have to crank the settings up so high you are dropping down to double-digit framerates anyway even if you had a TB of VRAM.
Yeah like I said above VRAM is a mega old argument, being had since at least 2002 if not before.
Here's an example: https://www.anandtech.com/show/934/2
At 1440p It coped surprisingly well, 45 - capped 60 FPS with everything maxed out
Why does this upset so many kids 'lol'?My point was a simple one, that you choose a 4k card to play in VR which used 2 4k panels. That's just simple arithmetic, a fail from the start. So how can I take anything seriously that you have to say regarding GPU performance or VRAM?
You have a problem discussing RT within a GPU forum and whether a GPU is future proofed with regard to said RT?
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I had a Ti4200 64MB, a former clanmate had 128MB and thought I was silly. I was happier having more memory bandwidth from a slightly cheaper card, given I expected to upgrade before it became a significant limitation anyway. Then went to 6800 which had 256MB, the 128MB ti4200 was rubbish in comparison by that point.
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I had one for a time and it was fine, I only got rid of it because I replaced with a 2080ti. Guess I must have been something wrong lol.
Yeah that's the normal cadence, upgrade every other generation (no need to worry about VRAM as you'll have a new card in 2 years time), but to be fair in more recent years you can get away with running cards a bit longer as the pace of progress has slowed.
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And the cost has gone up
Indeed, some of the people buying 3070s are doing so out of desperation I think. I wouldn't even bet on there being something available as an upgrade at a reasonable price in the near future let alone 1 or 2 years from now.
If it was for 4K gaming I would expect increasing issues.
If it was for 4K gaming I would expect increasing issues.
I can't believe you'd do that, Kaap.
It was a moral thing.
It was not just the lack of VRAM, there were problems with mGPU, drivers, fitting waterblocks etc.
I just could not justify selling or even giving them to someone else as it would have been immoral.
Having said all that for single card use at lower resolutions the cards were fine.
8GB is still plenty IMO for every game with appropriate settings at 4k 60hz likely for the next generation.
I mean unless you plan on running the game with maxed settings and 12fps like some like to complain with on Microsoft flight simulator vram isn’t much of an issue
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People also forget/don’t understand how hard it is to actually make a card max it’s vram.
I mean unless you plan on running the game with maxed settings and 12fps like some like to complain with on Microsoft flight simulator vram isn’t much of an issue
.People also forget/don’t understand how hard it is to actually make a card max it’s vram.
