| JEMC said: @zarx and Conina: Wow, I really thought they had more of that RAM available to games. le me thinking *I should start looking this kind of data before saying anything*, nods May this have something to do with consoles recording the last minutes of gameplay? In any case, unless something big happens, that reserved RAM will go down in time. Not even PCs OS use that much RAM anymore!
At least, we can agree that 4GB of VRAM is the min. one should be looking at nowadays, right? |
Well they ran into issues like not being able to do cross game chat on the PS3 last gen so I think they wanted a buffer to future proof new OS features.
I think if you are buying a card today unless you really are looking at a low end card you really should go for 4GB. Now that Nvidia have stopped skimping 4GB is basically the standard for mid to high end cards anyway. You might be able to get away with 3GB at least for now but better to have that buffer IMO. Especially if you are going to be buying a card that is going to give you more than double the performance of the consoles like modern high end cards do, you will want to be able to crank memory hungry things like textures and shadow resolution to get the most out of it. It's one of the reasons I thought people going with 3GB 780s were a bit silly, at the resolutions and settings that you would be aiming to hit on a card like that 3GB will be a bottleneck in some games going forward.
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