my 2gb 770 seems to run everything just fine, at max settings at 1920x1200, it seems mad that everyone is vram crazy these days. unless ya running high res/multi monitors isnt it just a waste? many videos out there testing how much vram is needed. i know 4k is a thing, but anyone running a 4k panel isnt gonna be using a £200 gpu are they?
my 2gb 770 seems to run everything just fine, at max settings at 1920x1200, it seems mad that everyone is vram crazy these days. unless ya running high res/multi monitors isnt it just a waste? many videos out there testing how much vram is needed. i know 4k is a thing, but anyone running a 4k panel isnt gonna be using a £200 gpu are they?
It's generally the ultra texture packs that are pushing up VRAM. Can't test it myself yet, but apparently Skyrim with the ultra textures is about 3.5GB, GTA4 with all the juicy mods too, is apparently higher.
my 2gb 770 seems to run everything just fine, at max settings at 1920x1200, it seems mad that everyone is vram crazy these days. unless ya running high res/multi monitors isnt it just a waste? many videos out there testing how much vram is needed. i know 4k is a thing, but anyone running a 4k panel isnt gonna be using a £200 gpu are they?
Exactly, I've got a GTX 760 2GB at the same res and have no problems. VRAM usage reading on programs is also not 100% accurate, for example, I was running a game on the same settings on both a GTX 260 and a 760 and the 760 was listed as using quite a bit more vram.
My opinion is for full HD 2GB is more than enough for now but if you wanna run 1440p or higher than a 4GB card is a good investment.
All depends on the price really. To make any sense it needs to still come in way under the lowest 970. Because, RAMgate or no RAMgate, the 970 is a much better card.