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JEMC said:

WoodenPints said:

Yeah I think if you upgrade to each new card the vram on Nvidia cards is enough but I think the general consumer wants to skip the following card after a purchase so every 4 years is the real minimum lifespan but some of the vram usage ramps is greatly when you enable the feature sets like RT, RR and DLSS+frame gen.

Whilst 24GB would be cool I think if they had 20GB on the 5080 it would offer the comfort of having headroom to enable more stuff over the next few years.

20GB would have worked, yes, but it's an odd number. Just like the 3080 with its 10GB. It doesn't feel right.

I think 24 would have been a better goal as that's how much capacity the 4090 has, and offering the 5080 with the same amount would make some buyers think that both cards are at the same level... which they may or may not be. We'll see.

320bit bus for 20GB would be quite normal for NVidia. I mean, it's not the first one and neither was the 3080. For example the 8800 GTS 320MB and 640MB or the GTX 470/570?

In fact, they had even more odd bus widths sometimes. Remember the 448 bit bus on the GTX 260 or the 352 bit bus on the 1080Ti?

And that's without the oddities of assigning asynchronous buses where parts of the memory was connected to slower RAM like on the GTX 550Ti/555 or infamously the GTX 970...

Chazore said:

Well seems Godot shit the bed recently.

Their community manager went rogue and just went off on one, blocking people left and right and calling people that don't agree with their pol view as "evil"/"vermin". Their CM even blocked Titanium-level backers for the engine as well...

See this is why you don't hire people who are radical/politically charged, because chances are so sky high that they will let themselves be heavily influenced by those views to a point where they will act emotionally and do so without acting logically.

Personally I just wish companies would stop hiring ppl who are so heavily vested in the already toxic culture war crap. It's ruining games and setting up a bad precedent in general (not only for gaming, but the rest of the world, and I say this as a Bi guy).

Source? Would love to know more about that.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 30 September 2024