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Captain_Yuri said:

Well I am sure both companies will increase the Vram capacity next generation regardless so I doubt that will be the case. GDDR6X is expensive *right now* but memory chips get cheaper over time just like everything else. GDDR6 was also expensive at one point.

As for Doom Ethernal, Ultra Nightmare settings in texture quality has no visual difference than it's lower texture quality settings according to DF. Most likely, Ultra Nightmare texture quality is for resolutions well above 4k for it to really make a visual difference. So enabling a setting that makes no visual difference other than to eat up Vram doesn't make much sense and I highly doubt will be the norm in the future. There might be settings for higher resolution texture quality sure but you shouldn't be enabling say texture quality settings meant for 6k on a GPU meant for 1440p. Especially as things like Direct Storage and other next generation technologies start becoming integrated into engines that is supposed to lessen the Vram usage.

So I wouldn't say RDNA cards will age better as Ray Tracing continues to be implemented in more and more games.

I don't say AMD cards will necessarily age better, just that 8GiB VRAM is already too low for something of the performance class of a 3070 and especially the Ti version of the latter, and that NVidia probably won't increase the amount of VRAM very much next gen, resulting in the same problem happening again next gen.

I know Ultra Nightmare doesn't really change the look of the game, but it's an important benchmarking tool when you want to test the longevity of GPUs, and here the 8GiB GPUs simply fail.

I think the 3070 is fine but the 3070 Ti is an absolute joke and no one should be getting it over a 6800. But there is a good reason why I keep recommending a 3060 Ti or 3080 instead of all the other Nvidia cards as those are the best all around in their class. We will see how much Vram Nvidia will increase it by but we have had notable jumps before like going from 3.5GB on the 970 to 8GB on the 1070.

The only thing Ultra Nightmare settings tests is how much Vram capacity your GPU has if you aren't using resolutions above 4k. It's not a good test for longevity because Direct Storage and texture streaming technologies is supposed to elevate the Vram capacity unlike previous generations. The longevity of a GPU is more than texture quality setting as Ray Tracing is the real next gen technology that tests the longevity of these GPUs as it gets implemented in more and more games while showing you an actual visual difference.