Can games use more than 6gb VRAM? Also AMD 8 core question.

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Batguerra

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I have 2 HD 7970's 6gb each and I wonder if games on the future will be able to make use of all that VRAM, even on 4k resolution.

And btw, in benchmarks fx 8350 with it's 8 core proves to be slower than the i7 4770k, 3960x etc. I wonder if it's because games now a days are not really optimized for the cpu, I mean, if they really use all of it's 8 cores, that I know BF4 with mantle will make use of it, and that's the only game at the moment that actually will be able to make use of it.
 
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1. yes, in future, it is very possible for the games to use more than 6gb of VRAM, but by then your GPU's will be out of date.
2. FX8350 is not a real 8 core CPU. 8 Cores 4 Modules, it's really a quad core and it's per core performance is significantly slower than intels. Right now games are still being catered around dual core CPUs and really, its only just starting to cater towards quad cores.
3. I wouldn't get too excited for Mantle, seeing that it's already heavily delayed and the demos have been extremely underwhelming. Don't expect mantle to give AMD users any form of significant boost, especially for high end GPU's.
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firo40

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Its not really an 8 core CPU look it up. It only has four logical cores. So no doubt the 3960x with 6 actual physical cores and 12 threads out preforms it as for the 4770k its way stronger core per core and also has 8 threads which is why it outperforms. Even in bf4 which is optimized for amd intel CPUs outperform from raw power
 
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ProWilma

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1. yes, in future, it is very possible for the games to use more than 6gb of VRAM, but by then your GPU's will be out of date.
2. FX8350 is not a real 8 core CPU. 8 Cores 4 Modules, it's really a quad core and it's per core performance is significantly slower than intels. Right now games are still being catered around dual core CPUs and really, its only just starting to cater towards quad cores.
3. I wouldn't get too excited for Mantle, seeing that it's already heavily delayed and the demos have been extremely underwhelming. Don't expect mantle to give AMD users any form of significant boost, especially for high end GPU's.
 
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Even the i5 that has 4 cores is stronger than the fx 8000 series. It's just that the intel's cpu's are stronger per core. About your question in the future of gaming, we don't know for sure. AMD says their CPUs are better for future games which will use more cores etc..

As for the 6gb VRAM in 4k resolution, I believe so. You need that much memory to power up all those pixels.
 
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