| I have a 3070 but i see new titles using 9 or 10 gb vram these days. Should i upgrade to 3080 ti or something similar or just wait for optimizations? I am using a 2k monitors by the way. |
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| If I were you, I'd wait at least for 50xx series unless you're very rich and care about even a small boost of performance. |
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| Even a 5 year old game like re2 remake is using %80 of my vram so that's why i'm concerned. |
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| I haven't felt bottlenecked by 8gb yet except for some areas with very instensive ray tracing (although that could be the fault of the RT acceleration and not VRAM) but I'm usually playing on a single 1080p monitor so higher resolutions will be more affected. I doubt I can use my card for higher resolutions + RT. |
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| depends on what games you intend to play, 99% of JRPGS barely need 4GB vram, other AAA western games might require from 8 to 16 gb ram to play at 1080p to 4K. |
| It depends on what your gaming needs are. If you're planning to play in 4k at 60 frames per second, then yes it would be very important. |
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| @Cnon A 3070 is more than fine for gaming at 1440p. Perhaps you'll have to turn down some settings in the most demanding games, but you should be doing that anyway to optimise your framerate. Might as well wait til the end of the year to see what new cards get released. Also if you absolutely need more vram, consider going with AMD unless you really need the features that Nvdia provides. Of course if money is no object, go ahead and upgrade to a 4090 lol |
| It's enough for casual gaming, and just about most free to play games like valorant/apex/genshin. But if you want to game in 1440p and 4k at high settings, definitely not. Game titles like alan wake and cyberpunk really push the boundaries of hardware. I'd say 10GB isn't future proof either. I think 12GB is the sweet spot right now for 1440p. I personally don't think you should go from a 3070 to a 3080 ti, not really a significant boost unless you just want the extra vram and it's not a crazy money sink. I think if you're desperate right now, you should probably get a 4070 or a rx 7800 xt. Otherwise I'd just wait for the new nvidia cards before upgrading your system. They should be coming out this year anyway. I'd say, for 1440p 12GB is the sweet spot. For 4k 16Gb is the sweet spot. So operate within those means. |
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It's enough for casual gaming, and just about most free to play games like valorant/apex/genshin. But if you want to game in 1440p and 4k at high settings, definitely not. Game titles like alan wake and cyberpunk really push the boundaries of hardware. I'd say 10GB isn't future proof either. I think 12GB is the sweet spot right now for 1440p. I personally don't think you should go from a 3070 to a 3080 ti, not really a significant boost unless you just want the extra vram and it's not a crazy money sink. I think if you're desperate right now, you should probably get a 4070 or a rx 7800 xt. Otherwise I'd just wait for the new nvidia cards before upgrading your system. They should be coming out this year anyway.
I'd say, for 1440p 12GB is the sweet spot. For 4k 16Gb is the sweet spot. So operate within those means.
I'd say, for 1440p 12GB is the sweet spot. For 4k 16Gb is the sweet spot. So operate within those means.
| @Senpapi-sama I think you are right i should just get a 4070 because it has the same power consumption and card length is almost same if i go with anything higher i need to swap my psu as well. I dont want to do that yet |
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| Bruh I have 4 gb vram and I still play nowadays games without a problem and I use gtx 970 which is already an antique... |
| Still sticking to 6GB 1080p, can play most of new or popular games 60+fps medium to ultra. |
| It should be enough, but not great. My advice is that at least give a look for the AMD VGAs, people often look down at them but for me I never had an issue with them. |
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| @Coaghim Brother, he means vram, not ram. They're two completely different things. VRAM is attached to your graphics card. Your 2080 has 8GB of vram for example. |
| It depends on what you are using your PC for. For web browsing, text/video editing and drawing that is more than enough. For PC gaming, that might not be good enough. |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| Works fine for me when I play CS2 and Overwatch. |
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| And people still play PC games in 2024? What a bunch of newbies. |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| radeon RX 580 8 GB DDR 5...is the best.hihihi |
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| I have RTX 2060 (6GB version) for 1080p gaming, and yep, it's still enough for all title. Last year's Alan Wake 2 ran at 60 fps with medium graphics. |
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| Using a PC for gaming is just an epic fail imo... |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
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@DesuMaiden why so?
| @PPL_CaLL_Me_DUDE because console games are better than PC games |
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@PPL_CaLL_Me_DUDE because console games are better than PC games
| @DesuMaiden Then have fun for 30 FPS games! |
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@DesuMaiden Then have fun for 30 FPS games!
| @Citrone39 why bother with PC games?? Especially when it is all based off of Windows??? |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
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you can use upscalers like dlss or fsr to lower memory usage too
| @deg and what good will that do?? |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| If you just watch anime or post on forums, then it is more than sufficient imo... |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
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@DesuMaiden lol he is playing video games genius besides 8gb vram is overkill for watching videos and posting on forums like 1gb vram is enough for that
| @deg pc games is for pansies imo... |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| it's not just vram amount they were stingy with watch this video entirely at 3:03 there is a graph that shows 3070 had 56% of cores compared to flagship and in 2025 with 5070 you only get 26% of cores compared to flagship. they steal our core counts as well. |
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| I don't play the latest AAA games or locally host AI so 8gb is plenty for me. I still have a 2070 which is the highest my 2015-era motherboard supports. |
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| all the buzz about ray tracing have dumbed down their capability. devs didn't optimize their game cause they hope powerful card will do the heavy lifting for them. i don't like the way they handle lighting now, under shade of a tree is dark as in you are inside a cave. recent games are so bad they force me to manually adjust my monitor's gamma. going in / out of a cave in real life is only during afternoon that is harsh on your eyes, but if you constantly experience this lighting effect in game, you'd probably be wearing glass before you hit middle age most likely. sorry if i didn't use proper vocabulary / miss the proper term. this means that lighting in video game issue that i saw on yt is actually a prevalent issue. |
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