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disolitude on 26 June 2013
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ethomaz said:

CGI-Quality said:

I must agree here, especially when I just did a test like this. I ran my most intensive game (no need to talk about my specs) and, at most, I used 3.46GB of my total RAM, and up to the 2GB of VRAM on the card.

You will start to see games for PC using more RAM now... the videoscards will have 3/4/6GB standard... no more 1/2/4GB.

It all comes down to how the video card drivers manage RAM usage. Nvidia has an advantage over AMD there. A game with a 7970 will use 2.5 GB of RAM while the same game will use 1.8 GB on GTX 770 and run better.

Forums are full of examples like that, infact most people think that Nvidia GK104 can't even untilize 4GB or RAM properly and that people buying 4GB 770s 680s 670s are just getting ripped off.

When Crysis 3 maxed out with every filter uses less than 2 GB or ram at 1080p, I think its safe to say that consoles with 5 GB of total memory are safe from running out of RAM.