Will the Vram difference between the GTX 1080 and Titan X be a future issue?

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Flyingsparrow101

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My brother and I have been arguing about the two cards of late....his issue however was Vram. He argues that the GPU of the GTX 1080 is faster but that the 8 gigs of Vram is 'inadequate'. He says that the card will loose it's edge sooner than compared to a titan x which has 12 gigs of Vram.....he was playing rise of the tomb raider at max settings on a 1080p Samsung HD 3D TV and says the Vram usage was at around 7+gigs with 40-50fps on his titan x. So basically he's implying that a game requiring more than 8 gigs of Vram will run better on the titan x than on the 1080...I honestly at first thought that by then the GPU on the titan x won't be fast enough to take advantage of the massive Vram....but also consider rise of the tomb raider is already consuming 7+ gigs of Vram. I don't think Nvidia were dumb in putting only 8 gigs of vram on their latest high end card, but nothing makes sense now...so what do you guys think?
 
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All he needs to understand is that the Titan X is a flagship product, whereas the 1080 is not, so of course Nvidia wouldn't put more VRAM on a 1-generation-new midrange product compared to the previous $1000 top-end card. After all, they need to leave some room for improvement when they release the next one...
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All he needs to understand is that the Titan X is a flagship product, whereas the 1080 is not, so of course Nvidia wouldn't put more VRAM on a 1-generation-new midrange product compared to the previous $1000 top-end card. After all, they need to leave some room for improvement when they release the next one...
 
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By the time 8GB of VRAM will be inadequate for gaming upto and including 4k both those cards will be outdated and underpowered. Your brother is suffering from what is commonly reffered to as buyer's stockholm syndrome :)
 
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The problem here is more and more games start using excessive amount of VRAM. but titan x not necessarily more future proof than 1080. Because raw power wise titan x still behind 1080. And in most ganes raw power still the most important metric to have. Go to tech power up and look for TPU review of GTX970 or GTX980. then look at their assassin creed unity numbers. The game is very well know to be very VRAM hungry. look at 4k result. Did the 6GB VRAM on the original titan give the card the edge vs 4GB card like 980/970/290X?
 
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Yup totally agree.....especially the last part!
 
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True....we've both put this into perspective and agreed that this is the issue

 
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The color compression should help reducing the bandwidth need for the game. that's why nvidia was able to get away with 128bit memory interface on 960. Some people say that narrow memory interface on 960 kill the card on high resolution. Until you see the comparison between 680 and 960 on 4k resolution. Performance wise 960 have around 95% of 680 performance at 1080p res. And that numbers are consistent through high resolution until 4k (you can check TPU performance summary on each resolution of 960 review if you're interested to see the actual data).

But that's it. It will not going to affect on how much VRAM the game going to need. How much VRAM the game use usually controlled by the game itself and driver.
 
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