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rx 580 8GB is good. the 4GB version is lagging behind a little -- VRAM spills into system RAM regularly. I assume the 1060 3GB has a similar problem. source:

rx 580 8GB is good. the 4GB version is lagging behind a little -- VRAM spills into system RAM regularly. I assume the 1060 3GB has a similar problem. source: I have a 4GB and am currently saving up to upgrade. edit: also, the rx 580 4GB generally runs at a lower clock than the 8GB counterpart, which affects performance, as well.

skohan 8y ago
Which titles are using more than 4GB these days?
- dragontamer 8y ago
  https://techreport.com/r.x/2019_02_06_AMD_s_Radeon_VII_graphics_card_reviewed/memory.jpg https://techreport.com/r.x/2019_02_06_AMD_s_Radeon_VII_graph... Seems to be a VRAM-based calculation. There have been some youtubers looking into the "pop in" effect on GPUs with less VRAM. Basically, GPUs will render images at a lower texture level if the texture wasn't fitting in VRAM. So the failure case is pretty smooth these days and hard to notice. Basically, the mountain range in the background may only be a 2k texture, but may pop into a 4k texture after a bit. Because the 2k texture is a mipmap of the 4k texture, its actually hard to notice. So you can stretch lower VRAM Settings these days better than you'd expect. Another thing: just because VRam is allocated doesn't necessarily mean that the VRAM is being used. If you look at a wall in any video game, all the textures are going unused. Taken to the extreme: there are people and objects "behind" a lot of geometries that you'll never see in the game, but will be allocated to VRAM. As such, a game may allocate 9GB total, but not really need the last 2 or 3 GB. So even if a game reports 9GB or 10GB of usage, you may get by with a 8GB card. ------------- In any case, we're long past the 4GB of RAM mark. Practically speaking, games require 6GB at least and may break 8GB in the near future IMO. 8GB seems to be sufficient for now though (thanks to pop-in, VRAM overallocation, etc. etc.)
- holtalanm 8y ago
  destiny 2, for one, will run over 4GB VRAM on high settings. the new resident evil easily runs over 4GB VRAM on high settings. Apex Legends recommends an 8GB card because on max textures it will use more than 4GB. there are a lot of modern titles that will allocate/use more than 4GB VRAM.
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skohan 8y ago

Which titles are using more than 4GB these days?

dragontamer 8y ago
https://techreport.com/r.x/2019_02_06_AMD_s_Radeon_VII_graphics_card_reviewed/memory.jpg https://techreport.com/r.x/2019_02_06_AMD_s_Radeon_VII_graph... Seems to be a VRAM-based calculation. There have been some youtubers looking into the "pop in" effect on GPUs with less VRAM. Basically, GPUs will render images at a lower texture level if the texture wasn't fitting in VRAM. So the failure case is pretty smooth these days and hard to notice. Basically, the mountain range in the background may only be a 2k texture, but may pop into a 4k texture after a bit. Because the 2k texture is a mipmap of the 4k texture, its actually hard to notice. So you can stretch lower VRAM Settings these days better than you'd expect. Another thing: just because VRam is allocated doesn't necessarily mean that the VRAM is being used. If you look at a wall in any video game, all the textures are going unused. Taken to the extreme: there are people and objects "behind" a lot of geometries that you'll never see in the game, but will be allocated to VRAM. As such, a game may allocate 9GB total, but not really need the last 2 or 3 GB. So even if a game reports 9GB or 10GB of usage, you may get by with a 8GB card. ------------- In any case, we're long past the 4GB of RAM mark. Practically speaking, games require 6GB at least and may break 8GB in the near future IMO. 8GB seems to be sufficient for now though (thanks to pop-in, VRAM overallocation, etc. etc.)
holtalanm 8y ago
destiny 2, for one, will run over 4GB VRAM on high settings. the new resident evil easily runs over 4GB VRAM on high settings. Apex Legends recommends an 8GB card because on max textures it will use more than 4GB. there are a lot of modern titles that will allocate/use more than 4GB VRAM.

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