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Will need 6GB vRAM for new games coming out?

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October 1, 2014 12:45:51 AM

I just looked at the new Mordor titled game. It wants each card to have 6GB or it won't load the top textures (If you run SLI, each card needs that much -- that's the local cache area for textures, shaders, etc. So if there isn't 6GB load-room, you'll have to step down the graphics.).

Checking a bit more, I found that several other titles are coming out soon that want 4GB of vRAM so this isn't a "one off" but a trend that is not going to go away.

My current EVGA GTX 780 is a couple months old. I replaced a GTX 760 that burned out after about 8 months (a mutter but the local computer shop said it's a very solid card and I went from 2GB to 3GB vRAM).

Now I find that the 3GB vRAM on it will not be able to provide the best graphics and that cards with 6GB are all between the $1k and $3.4k range but this was *NOT* the case a couple months ago.

The GTX 780 actually had some way to get it to 6GB for a time but all those cards are now gone - having been pulled from the market and even the manufacturer's are not showing them as available to be sold -- but more expensive models? Yup - those can be bought!

This is going to be a very a deal to a lot of gamers as they find their rigs, no matter how much they spent for the video systems, are going to be unable to even load the top looks for games coming out across the next year.

2GB and 3 GB cards will be "junk" to a vast number of gamers no matter the GPU on them if they won't even load the top effects and textures.

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October 1, 2014 1:46:45 AM

It is just a case of the game devs being lazy with the textures, as there is no way that a game should need that much vRAM, besides, that means that so many people with top tier rigs wouldn't be able to max out the settings because their GPU's don't have enough vRAM, this just seems unlikely
October 1, 2014 6:38:47 AM

It doesn't appear that simple.

This one game wants you to have 6GB but I found 3 other titles coming out that also want a minimum of 4GB to load the best graphics.

When something like this starts, it doesn't go away. So you either have that much vRAM per card or you will not be loading the best graphics those games offer - and that tends to be why people do what they do for games.

So, again, if it were just this 1 game I might go "ok... it's a freak incident" but when more are coming out over the next few months, from different vendors, that shows a trend and such a trend puts the onus on gamers to have the hardware.

The kicker: Cards are coming off the market with sufficient vRAM at "somewhat" affordable prices, leaving only the most expensive of cards capable of meeting the new memory limit. They *WERE* for sale but are being pulled from the market... That's not good for gamers, only card/chip-set manufacturers.
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