GPU Upgrade

[Larry]

I have a ryzen 9 5900x and an old rx 580. Im looking to upgrade the gpu for a good experience on pvp servers. Any advice for gpus?

[DarkHalls]

Originally posted by BattleSquirrel7:

agreed, most vram you can afford will make biggest difference in the less optimized games like Ark. finally switched teams to AMD with my last upgrade and what a difference with the 7900XTX with 24GB DDR6. 3070 used to crash constantly and drag on lowest settings, now I get steady 60FPS on high, with only a little stuttering in high draw areas.

100 %

Really can't overstate how much vram matters these days

[Schildkroeti]

I have a 3070 and don't have crashes (only at the beginning where everyone had constant crashes). If BattleSquirrel7 played 1440p, quite possible that the game still crashes often. Otherwise it was a issue on his end.
Like one of the guys said before, wait until the next generations gets released.
For now a Nvidia card is superior in this game. If FSR3 with FG actually gets in the game, it doesn't matter much (since FSR works for every card except very old ones).
VRAM is important as the others said. 8 GB is enough for 1080p in this game, but 100% not good for the future. 12 GB at least. AMD cards have more VRAM, but keep in mind that more VRAM is used on AMD cards.
If you cant wait until next generation release this year and you wanna get something in high end area, go for Nvidia. FPS/power consumption is very good in the RTX 4000 series.

[DarkHalls]

Originally posted by Schildkröti:

I have a 3070 and don't have crashes (only at the beginning where everyone had constant crashes). If BattleSquirrel7 played 1440p, quite possible that the game still crashes often. Otherwise it was a issue on his end.
Like one of the guys said before, wait until the next generations gets released.
For now a Nvidia card is superior in this game. If FSR3 with FG actually gets in the game, it doesn't matter much (since FSR works for every card except very old ones).
VRAM is important as the others said. 8 GB is enough for 1080p in this game, but 100% not good for the future. 12 GB at least. AMD cards have more VRAM, but keep in mind that more VRAM is used on AMD cards.
If you cant wait until next generation release this year and you wanna get something in high end area, go for Nvidia. FPS/power consumption is very good in the RTX 4000 series.

Even 12 gb isn't enough
I play 1440p High settings with frame gen and dlss. It exceeds 12 GB
You would have to turn down the resolution or switch to 1080p which is not what you pay big bucks for your gpu for

[Schildkroeti]

Originally posted by DarkHalls:

Even 12 gb isn't enough
I play 1440p High settings with frame gen and dlss. It exceeds 12 GB
You would have to turn down the resolution or switch to 1080p which is not what you pay big bucks for your gpu for

You sure that it exceeds? Even with 3070 its playable (FPS wise not so much) on 1440p.
The game uses VRAM as cache too. I can have textures on ultra and the VRAM usage is around 7,5/8GB plus a tiny bit in shared memory. I can lower textures and its going down maybe 200-300 MB. At TheIsland beach a bit more.
Thats what I saw on 4070 (Ti/Super) user reports too. The issues with crashes are most likely caused by FG ingame. I run the FSR3 FG mod and 3070 without issues.

[Raff]

Originally posted by DarkHalls:

Not sure I would recommend 4070 super.
I've tested the game 1440p high settings and it exceeds the 4070's 12 GB vram.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSkoA_kxQc&t=16s

Yes, but the GeForce supports DLSS, which looks better than the other methods currently implemented in Ark SA. 7900 GRE fares well (and has 16 GiB) if that's not a problem. :)

Best regards,
Raff

[DarkHalls]

Originally posted by Schildkröti:

Originally posted by DarkHalls:

Even 12 gb isn't enough
I play 1440p High settings with frame gen and dlss. It exceeds 12 GB
You would have to turn down the resolution or switch to 1080p which is not what you pay big bucks for your gpu for

You sure that it exceeds? Even with 3070 its playable (FPS wise not so much) on 1440p.
The game uses VRAM as cache too. I can have textures on ultra and the VRAM usage is around 7,5/8GB plus a tiny bit in shared memory. I can lower textures and its going down maybe 200-300 MB. At TheIsland beach a bit more.
Thats what I saw on 4070 (Ti/Super) user reports too. The issues with crashes are most likely caused by FG ingame. I run the FSR3 FG mod and 3070 without issues.

Yep for me it does.

Tested here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSkoA_kxQc&t=157s

2:56 into the video as you can see it uses 12.6K vram and this is with no mods running.

Asa is something else.

[Xaphros]

Originally posted by DarkHalls:

Even 12 gb isn't enough
I play 1440p High settings with frame gen and dlss. It exceeds 12 GB
You would have to turn down the resolution or switch to 1080p which is not what you pay big bucks for your gpu for

I run at 1440P and stay below 10GB, with pretty much maxed out settings apart from some silliness I don't want like motion blur etc and "epic shadows".

[Schildkroeti]

Originally posted by DarkHalls:

Yep for me it does.

Tested here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSkoA_kxQc&t=157s

2:56 into the video as you can see it uses 12.6K vram and this is with no mods running.

Asa is something else.

Mods have nothing to do with VRAM. Mods and RAM are a thing.

I think your overlay (whatever you are using) calculates in the shared memory too. Can you check that in task manager? -> Performance tab and GPU. There is dedicated GPU memory and shared.
Actual textures are maybe 10 GB or less for you. Everything else is cache to load up world tiles and assets faster.