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zarx on 27 September 2014
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JEMC said:
zarx said:
morenoingrato said:
I'm starting to think 2GB of VRAM is going to become obsolete waaaaaaay sooner than what I anticipated.


Anyone who brought a card with less than 3GB of VRAM in the last year and a half was setting themselves up for dissapointment. And anyone buying one today should get 4GB minimum.

Indeed.

Luckily consoles don't have access to the whole 8GB of RAM they have, leaving 1-1.5GB reserved for other system tasks that with time will be optimized and reduced to 0.5-1GB. And then there's the part of that RAM that deals with the CPU info.

And consoles are also able to make more with less RAM as the PS360 have proven.

This gen, it looks like GPU power won't be such a big problem, but VRAM will until cards with at least 8GB start appearing (and to be honest, that could be as soon as next year with AMD's 390X).



Where did you get 1.5GB from? PS4 reserves 3.5GB and the XBOne reserves 3GB for the system. Devs have access to 5GB on XBOne and 4.5GB directly managed on PS4, Tho the PS4 also has 1GB of system managed memory dedicated to games tho I am not sure how that actually works.



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