Gaming at 4K: not anytime soon?

[JEMC]

disolitude said:

JEMC said:

disolitude said:

Also, a lot of those cards are taking because of VRAM. At 4K you need more than 2GB for sure.

The HD 7950 3GB beating the GTX 680 2GB in every test proves this.

Yeah, I mean they could lower AA and prolly get by with 3 GB on some of these games, but something like Crysis 3 and Metro will use more than 2 GB as the frame buffer for 4K.

In other news, I just ordered 2 Gigabyte GTX 770s 4GB versions, that should be ample for the next few years... Selling my 7950s and hoping to get the Nvidia Shield when it comes out.  May even invest in one of those cheap Seiki 4K TVs since I heard they do true 120 hz input and refresh rate at 1080p. Those are essentially a 1080p@120 hz/4K@30 hz monitor.

Lucky you.

Those versions with extra RAM almost never appear here, although this time I've seen them, but for 50€ more than a regular 770. I hope you make a thread sharing the performance you get with them.