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Captain_Yuri said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

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.

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.

There have always been some techniques to lower the VRAM usage. All they do is delay the need for more VRAM by a bit. They can maybe delay for longer than usual, but that's about it, at some point 8GiB will be too small for anything, and I think that will come sooner than you expect. As in, starting to be a limiting factor late next year already.