Will this damage my video card life span?

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So im lately playing GTA V on my pc, but there is something that really worries me. There is a maximum memory usage for my GPU which is 2047mb, but when i optimize the game at nvidia geforce experience it goes like 300mb over that limit. So am i pushing my GPU too much by exceding this limit? or its okay?

I got a GTX 960 2GB with 8GB of ram.
 
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It's not damaging in any sense.
It just means your graphics card won't have enough space to store a scenes data in its highspeed GDDR5 memory.
It will have to be loaded into your system RAM for a bit and do some swapping.
Not damaging, but you may notice frame rate drops if the swapping becomes excessive.
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It's not damaging in any sense.
It just means your graphics card won't have enough space to store a scenes data in its highspeed GDDR5 memory.
It will have to be loaded into your system RAM for a bit and do some swapping.
Not damaging, but you may notice frame rate drops if the swapping becomes excessive.
 
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It won't damage your card but may affect performance. Though if the GForce experience is optimizing it for you, I would think nVidia has done the hard work.

Also, how are you measuring memory usage? Are you confusing system memory usage with VRAM?
 
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It says how much GPU memory you are using on the settings menu.
 
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