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[Artoris]

thats it

 

[kanjobazooie]

You need at least 1 gigatera.

Hardware - Daniel Owen: How bad is 8GB of VRAM in 2024?

Daniel Owen created excellent video comparing the same GPU with 2 different vram versions: DLSS Frame Generation is basically unusable on 8GB GPUs, many games can be played on higher settings on 16GB version but are unplayable on 8GB one. I bet Nvidia will release 5060 with 8GB of Vram for...

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[E-Cat]

It ought to be enough for anybody.

 

[spons]

it depends

 

[Thaedolus]

Incredibly subjective question. The thing is- you don’t need to turn everything on ultra. Often it’s a very costly thing to do in terms of performance, with negligible improvement in terms of what you see.

It’s nice that I had the money to play Cyberpunk with full path tracing and shit, but my buddy played it like 3 times through on PS5 and bought a giant poster to hang in his house and is considering another tattoo, themed on the game. I think it’s fair to say that despite my rig’s extra teraflops and gigabytes, he had a lot of fun with that game

 

[Bojji]

If you play at 1080p and don't chase max textures and RT then it's enough.

 

[West Texas CEO]

you don't really need more than 640K, to be honest.

Remember what Bill Gates said:

 

[EverydayBeast]

People are really aggressive with ram these days in that regard 4GB of ram was fine for me I dominated BF3, MOH but that was 2011.

 

[nkarafo]

Only for the lowest end, sub 250$ cards and 1080p gaming.

 

[FateTrap]

Here you can see that even if I open an image viewer and a terminal, my VRAM usage is only 138 MB.
If I close the image viewer then the VRAM usage lowers to 135 MB. These seem like pretty good values for the Radeon RX 7600.

If I open a 3D shooter with outdated but decent graphics then I see 4xx MB of VRAM.
So I can play a fun 3D shooter with less than half of the typical windows10/11 users VRAM usage.

The most popular GPUs according to the steam hardware survey:
#1 RTX 3060 (has 8GB models)
#2 GTX 1650 (4GB VRAM)
#3 RTX 3060 Ti (has 8GB models)
#4 RTX 3070 (has 8GB models)
#5 RTX 4060 (has 8GB models)
#6 RTX 2060 (has 6GB models)
#7 RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
#8 GTX 1060 (has 6GB and 3GB models)
#9 RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

For 1080p gaming, 8GB is usually going to be enough for several more years.
Game developers can't even sell their game to the largest group of gamers otherwise.

Even 1080p gaming on 4GB VRAM GPUs still goes reasonably well if you are willing to tweak some settings or skip some games.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I’d consider going for 12GB or more to future-proof a bit.

 

[winjer]

you don't really need more than 640K, to be honest.

Remember what Bill Gates said:

Sorry to disappoint, but this is a myth.
There is no record of Bill Gates ever saying this.

 

[RagnarokIV]

you don't really need more than 640K, to be honest.

Remember what Bill Gates said:

Gates himself has strenuously denied making the comment. In a newspaper column that he wrote in the mid-1990s, Gates responded to a student’s question about the quote: “I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.” Later in the column, he added, “I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There’s never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.”

“Do you realize the pain the industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640K? The machine was going to be 512K at one point, and we kept pushing it up,” he told the magazine. “I never said that statement — I said the opposite of that.”

 

[jason10mm]

you don't really need more than 640K, to be honest.

Remember what Bill Gates said:

Goddamn those were the days. Nothing EVER worked without tweaking, had to constantly futz with autoexec.bat and config.sys to get shit going, modems were slow as hell and you had to enforce RIGID telephone discipline on the rest of the family if you wanted a clean window to download something, and RADIO SHACK was our mecca along with Electronics Boutique.

 

[Mobius 1]

Editing autoexec.bat to optimize system memory made me the person I am today.