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HoloDust said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Five-year old GPUs alludes to the professional GPUs like Hopper, but on desktop we got the RTX 3000, which is so memory-starved that the generation, which looked great at first glance, aged pretty badly.

Depends on actual RTX 30 series GPU:

- 3050 6GB - 2024 card with memory capacity of GTX1060 from 2016...bitch, please

- 3050/3060 8GB - can struggle with higher settings even at 1080p

- 3060Ti/3070/3070Ti with 8GB - yeah definitely

- 3080 10GB - still chugging along, but you definitely feel lack of memory in modern games (I have this one, needs to go away, but now it's definitely not the time)

- 3060 12GB/3080/3080Ti 12GB - mostly still fine, especially 3060 12GB (also have this one), since it's aimed at 1080p, but 3080s are hitting EOL with 12GB in higher resolutions

- 3080 20GB/3090/3090Ti 24GB - perfectly fine for few more years.

The 3090 was the only one that had enough memory from the start, along with the 12GB 3060.

3080 having less memory than a 1080Ti is imo an even bigger sin than the 3050, and the 3080Ti and later 3080 models only having a single GB more is basically nothing.

While the 12GB allows them to survive, the 3070Ti should already have come with that back then. 8GB already started to be limiting the card when it was in its prime.