Is 20GB VRAM enough in 2023?

[tricker]

I just purchased a 7900xt MERC 310 Black OC edition which has 20gb of vram, but I'm worried that I should have gotten the XTX for 24gb vram. Games such as JEDI Survivor and Microsoft Flight simulator have been hefty on my vram, coming up to about 18-19gb. Should I return it and upgrade? Really worried about my future proofing here

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

20g should be fine if you turn down settings a little.

[UserNotFound]

W O K E I S M の投稿を引用：

20g should be fine if you turn down settings a little.

IF that's true, then RTX 4080, more so RTX 4070 series owners, should be worried....

[Viking2121]

Well even at 3440x1440, 12GB I found to be plenty on the 3080ti, Even a lot of games at 4k, I felt 12GB should be mostly enough, yeah there will be a few that it might be pushing it. 20Gb should be plenty for the usable life of the card in my opinion.

Even 8Gb is plenty doable and just starting to be a problem at 1440p in some modern games and even in them games that can use more than 8GB of vram, the 8GB cards usually wouldn't be fast enough and you'd have to turn down something anyway.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Some games don't treat VRAM properly either. Much like System RAM; many games will use more VRAM just because it's available; does not mean that it must actually have that much, or that you will be guaranteed better performance just because your GPU has more VRAM available compared to others. MOST games even at 4K and 5K can do fine with around 10-12GB VRAM.

NVIDIA is working on an AI method that will do much better real-time compression within VRAM so that you won't require as much physical VRAM for most of these games compared to normal. However I fear many game devs won't implement this (unless it's something NVIDIA can force via the GPU itself to do) and if this is not used by game devs, that many newer games might stop you from running a certain game at certain settings, based on what it detects for your physical GPU VRAM. So they definitely need to collaborate more and get this sorted out.

[Wolfgang421]

Get a Radeon Pro SSG with 1tb vram, might last a couple of years.

[AmaiAmai]

Depends on the game.

Jedi Survivor for instance needs at least 12GB for 1440P no FSR, unless you can alter the behavior yourself (requires ability to code).

Outside games like that, it's likely enough. Can't say that it is because you don't know what is down the pipeline for 2023. I do and it's not good. My LinkedIn getting spammed with keys for games that's a bad thing.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

And TLoU:Pt1 if that game is still broken, where it needs like 12+ GB of VRAM

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

In 2023, 12 to 16gb Vram is enough for any games, regardless of graphics settings and resolutions.

So, 20gb should be enough for next couple of years safely.

[emoticorpse]

No, the truth is gpu makers should be giving no less than 64 gb and even game developers know this.

[Slav Mcgopnik]

emoticorpse の投稿を引用：

No, the truth is gpu makers should be giving no less than 64 gb and even game developers know this.

I can’t tell if this is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or not.

Even the specialist GPUs designed to cram in as much VRAM as possible for things like machine learning tend to cap out at 48 GB of VRAM (and said GPUs tend to cost around 5000 dollars at least).

No game !needs! more than 12 GB these days, and most of the advanced applications for it are beyond typical user needs.

[Crashed]

I think both Forspoken and Hogwarts Legacy will say you never have enough VRAM.

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

considering i have 6gb ram and the games i play dont even reach that limit i say no

[Waldherz]

Considering that most games I play dont even break the 11GB barrier on my 4090....

To all AMD guys out there: AMDs texture compression is worse and AMD drivers also tend to allocate far more vram space than needed. Thats why youd see MUCH more vram allocation on your card than any nvidia card.

Keep in mind that allocation is not the same as actually used vram.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD} の投稿を引用：

considering i have 6gb ram and the games i play dont even reach that limit i say no

Your mean 6GB VRAM?
You're also probably playing at 1080p

[Overseer]

Software can't tell you how much VRAM is actually in use. You have to rely on performance.