what is the most important spec of a gpu

[mohammad bin cibai]

I thought it was vram?

[ChickenBalls]

Originally posted by Orang dalam:

Originally posted by Karumati:

Life hack: instead of using daddy’s money for something unproductive , use your own money for something unproductive

Hmmm, Yes i got 20 dollars permonth from being my daddy's accountant, I have about 400k month journey to climb, ocean to swim, to get the rtx 3080

get a real job

[A&A]

There is no such thing as "the most important GPU specification"

VRAM is important, if it's low, then PCIe lanes are important because SAM and ReBar are doing a lot and the memory bus is important, because you'll wonder why increasing the core frequency by 10% gets you nowhere. Core complexes are also important and yes…

Тhe price is $$$

[mohammad bin cibai]

Originally posted by ChickenBalls:

Originally posted by Orang dalam:

Hmmm, Yes i got 20 dollars permonth from being my daddy's accountant, I have about 400k month journey to climb, ocean to swim, to get the rtx 3080

get a real job

My job is a student(its called a job in my country), im not getting paid, im the one who paid

[Karumati]

Originally posted by Orang dalam:

Originally posted by ChickenBalls:

get a real job

My job is a student(its called a job in my country), im not getting paid, im the one who paid

Part time even in mcdonalds is gonna get you to 3080 in no time

[mohammad bin cibai]

Originally posted by Karumati:

Originally posted by Orang dalam:

My job is a student(its called a job in my country), im not getting paid, im the one who paid

Part time even in mcdonalds is gonna get you to 3080 in no time

Wow, but here, mc donald dont want to employ kids, even some college graduates are struggle to get employed

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by 🦜Cloud Boy🦜:

The important spec of a GPU is its performance in games, and its price.
The VRAM amount has also became an important factors these days as games started to hit the limit, which wasn't the case few years ago for most GPUs.

Succinct and right out the gate. This is the best thread answer right here IMO.

The nitty gritty details are nice to get into it if you want to, but none of them are worth hyper focusing on by themselves because they are just the collective variables that add up to the performance it offers. So performance for price, and in modern times I'd say performance/VRA for price, are key things. And then go from there. For some people, raw price has a limit, and to others, it doesn't and they just want about the highest performance. Depends on which one is you.

In certain situations, a certain specification might indeed be more important than usual. But you can't just look at it and say "what spec matters most". A lot of them simply matter a lot, and some even barely matter, so it's (usually) not worth hyper focusing on as though one is more important in a broad sense. They're nice to get into when discussing specifics, but it's too broad to generalize.

[emoticorpse]

Architecture?

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I want to say price over quality.

[Karumati]

Originally posted by Wynters:

I want to say price over quality.

Fps over anything.

[plat]

Is it always just one thing that determines what you buy? Maybe it is for some but I'm more like it's a combo. Price is secondary to me. It's try-out time. I look for quality of video and energy efficiency. I already have a budget in mind and it's a range with a single price being the upper limit.

I don't think you can nail down a single attribute most of the time. For some it's brand name and for a few even going for looks of the thing--like rgb and whatever.

[Haruspex]

As others already said; Price/performance ratio is most important.

VRAM is important, but secondary, and although it's not ideal you can technically make up for a lack of VRAM with actual system RAM. My son was playing some Star Citizen on his 4 GB GPU. His VRAM was maxed out and his 16 GB of RAM was also just about maxed out. The game was a stuttery mess. We upped his system RAM to 32 GB, and the game is actually quite smooth and playable now.

If you max out your VRAM, your system will offload the overflow to RAM. As I mentioned, it's not ideal. RAM is typically slower than VRAM but from what I can tell it's fast enough to make a normally unplayable game playable if you have enough of it.

There's also plenty of systems that make no distinction between VRAM and RAM anyway. Lots of laptops and other portable PCs like the Steam Deck, or really any APU based system including consoles just have one big pool of memory shared between video and CPU.

[Overseer]

Yeah this is not a good question. The best for what exactly? AI acceleration? Power saving? Ray Tracing? Money spent?

[Introverted Gamer]

What's the budget? How much money your willing to spend. That's the most important aspect out of all.

[CJM]

Originally posted by Karumati:

Originally posted by Orang dalam:

My job is a student(its called a job in my country), im not getting paid, im the one who paid

Part time even in mcdonalds is gonna get you to 3080 in no time

McDonald's affords self-sufficiency with regards to transportation?

I would think saving money for a replacement vehicle, when your McDonald's employee special breaks down side of the rode for the 1000th and last time, would take priority over a GPU.

Buying a GPU and then being late for work because your car breaks down again is not going to look good on your work history.

Originally posted by plat:

and for a few even going for looks of the thing--like rgb and whatever.

The demand for high power "RGB" computers has declined year over year. Mini PCs are rising in popularity.

People want computers to disappear, to hide them away.

Somebody thought that the XBox Series X could be hidden away in plain sight, likely as a compromise for the wife's aesthetic tastes. It is supposed to be better than the extremely unsightly PlayStation 5 that clashes with nearly all decor.

Smaller for me also suggests lower power consumption. Small footprint, low energy consumption, low heat output, low noise output.

[Karumati]

Originally posted by CJM:

Originally posted by Karumati:

Part time even in mcdonalds is gonna get you to 3080 in no time

McDonald's affords self-sufficiency with regards to transportation?

I would think saving money for a replacement vehicle, when your McDonald's employee special breaks down side of the rode for the 1000th and last time, would take priority over a GPU.

Buying a GPU and then being late for work because your car breaks down again is not going to look good on your work history.

Originally posted by plat:

and for a few even going for looks of the thing--like rgb and whatever.

The demand for high power "RGB" computers has declined year over year. Mini PCs are rising in popularity.

People want computers to disappear, to hide them away.

Somebody thought that the XBox Series X could be hidden away in plain sight, likely as a compromise for the wife's aesthetic tastes. It is supposed to be better than the extremely unsightly PlayStation 5 that clashes with nearly all decor.

Smaller for me also suggests lower power consumption. Small footprint, low energy consumption, low heat output, low noise output.

do you really think all students can drive ?