How much vRAM does this use at 1080p in 2024 (after patches)?

[TechManMax]

Wondering if now is a good time to buy the game or not…I have a 4070 laptop (8GB) with i9 13900H and 32GB DDR5 5200MHz RAM with a 980 Pro 2TB M2 SSD. I don’t need ultra settings but I do want to be able to use high settings (either native or with DLSS on Quality…no lower) and achieve around 60fps (higher if possible). I can achieve this in other AAA titles like Jedi survivor, hogwarts legacy, avatar frontiers of Pandora, Starfield, etc now (post patches).

[Hartassen]

I'm having trouble keeping it under 8gb vram on high preset. Even on medium settings some areas can dip over 8. Honestly despite all the recent positive reviews the performance has been below expectations for me. I reach the recommended specs and the game still doesn't perform as advertised.

5600x
16gb 3200/16
6600xt
m2 ssd

Your experience could be different.

[Lazylobster_69]

for me i used nivida dlss to make my game run sharper but run at 720 p it lowered the vram a bit but i see you have a 6600. so maybe try and and turn on some fsr or something

[Pootang pie]

It runs fine on my comp heck I can even run it on max without any dips in framerate

Amd ryzen 5900x
GeForce rtx 3080 10gb
32 gb
Win 10

[Howard J. Spencer]

Using the high preset with the texture stream rate set to normal the game is reporting to around 6.9GBs of VRAM usage at native 1080p at least for me with a RTX 4070 Ti desktop.

HWINFO reports the GPU memory allocation to about the same amount although the amount of VRAM used, may vary depending on your hardware configuration also as Hartassen said sometimes it will spill over the 8GB VRAM buffer in some areas.

You could also use DLSS to slightly lower the usage as well.

[Shinigami]

Originally posted by Lazylobster_69:

for me i used nivida dlss to make my game run sharper but run at 720 p it lowered the vram a bit but i see you have a 6600. so maybe try and and turn on some fsr or something

When I ran the game at my full 7680x2160, upon launching the game, it told me I was using over 12GB of VRAM. When I enabled DLSS, it went down to around 10GB of VRAM (game is now upscaling from 5120x1440).
So in my case, that was a drop of 20% in VRAM use when my resolution nearly halved (from ~16.6 million pixels, to ~7.4 million pixels).
I'm guessing VRAM use goes up once additional levels and models (with their textures) finish loading (haven't tested with MSI Afterburner and Riva Tuner yet, nor have I tested at 1080p).

[JD]

I'm playing the game at 4K (native) ultra settings and the game is only using 11GB Vram, and I'm getting 82 fps. I don't use any upscaling or dlss features.

This is a huge improvement from when the game launched in March 2023. Back then it was using 17Gb vram and the performance was a lot worse back then.

[TechManMax]

Originally posted by Howard J. Spencer:

Using the high preset with the texture stream rate set to normal the game is reporting to around 6.9GBs of VRAM usage at native 1080p at least for me with a RTX 4070 Ti desktop.

HWINFO reports the GPU memory allocation to about the same amount although the amount of VRAM used, may vary depending on your hardware configuration also as Hartassen said sometimes it will spill over the 8GB VRAM buffer in some areas.

You could also use DLSS to slightly lower the usage as well.

That sounds more promising. I have a 4070 laptop (so only 8GB vRAM compared to the desktop version’s 12GB…why the mobile 4070 has the same 8GB vRAM as both the mobile/desktop 4060 we will never know!). In all fairness, though, I wasn’t planning on spending the price premium for a 4070 laptop given the limitations and the fact there’s only a modest 10-ish fps boost over the 4060 it’s just I got a really good deal (£1199) for a 4070 laptop with an i9 13900H (cheaper even than some desktop 4060s at the time). I think of my card as an overclocked 4060 really but nVidia advertise the 4060 as being a high end 1080p GPU (basically capable of high settings and 60+ FPS). So when I see 8GB vRAM not even being enough to run Full HD when an Xbox series S (which can only allocate up to 8GB of its 10GB unified memory to gaming) is capable of looking good at 1440p it does make me concerned. This game is on sale this weekend hence why I’m asking, but I really don’t want to spend money if it’s still an optimisation mess.

[sooshon]

You should be fine, the performance has been very smooth for me even with a Nvidia 3060 laptop edition which is only 6gb vram, minus some high res textures sometimes taking a little long to load. I'm sure you're sure for 1080p with 8vram

[TechManMax]

Originally posted by sooshon:

You should be fine, the performance has been very smooth for me even with a Nvidia 3060 laptop edition which is only 6gb vram, minus some high res textures sometimes taking a little long to load. I'm sure you're sure for 1080p with 8vram

The key here though is 1080p with “high” settings. I’m not willing to compromise on graphical fidelity when I have a 2023 modem GPU of the latest generation. The card itself has the computational power to achieve decent FPS even at 1440p lol, it’s just the vRAM. 8GB for a 4070 is a bit cheap of nVidia really but, with that said, it’s enough for high-ultra in most games at 1080p with high FPS. If I can’t run the game at high settings I’m not interested. I’m not one of those gamers who’s fine lowering graphics to medium or, worse low, just to achieve playable FPS. I don’t mind switching off ray tracing in games as that’s particularly demanding but I want to be able to run high graphics settings at 1080p. What graphics settings do you run and what fps do you get on your card? Any stuttering issues? Frame drops? Crashing??

[papalazarou]

2060 6gb vram runs fine at max at 2560x1440

[TechManMax]

Originally posted by papalazarou:

2060 6gb vram runs fine at max at 2560x1440

Thanks, good to know.

[Cryiox]

1080p
Maxed out
Texture streaming on Normal (lowest option)
FSR2 or DLSS2 set to Quality

Fits absolutely perfectly within 8 GB VRAM with no overhead (assuming no other programs besides Steam and MSI Afterburner are open)