20gb vram enough for 1080p gaming in 2023?

[tricky]

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

[Omega]

It is enough for 4K gaming, you are absolutely fine on 1080p.

Games current tend to rarely require more than 8GB of videomemory even at higher settings.

[Slav Mcgopnik]

That GPU is massive overkill for 1080p for the most part. Those games make heavy use of VRAM because they are programmed to utilize pretty much all they are given. You could actually easily downgrade to something like a 6950xt and probably not notice any major drops in performance at 1080p.

It’s fine to keep for future proofing if you want though, just don’t build around “future proofing”, you don’t need a 7900xtx or a 4090 for 1080p gaming, and 5 years down the line, they’ll all be outdated anyway. 20 GB is VRAM is plenty for now and for the foreseeable future, it’s really only 8GB cards having problems with very new games atm, and 12 GB may be in a risky zone in the future.

[PopinFRESH]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/3833171656674616608/

[bladeshredder]

yes it is more than enough ^^