GeForce GTX 880 Really Does Have 8GB Of Memory

[Rastalovich]

Battlefield 4 at 4K I've seen use 5GB on a Titan and with games coming out like the Witcher 3 which looks like it's going to melt current systems.

At 4K I think it will go beyond 4GB easily making 8GB a viable number.

News to me. We've been editing in 4k, it's too much of a buzz phrase being passed around tbh. 8k resolutions are being touted too. (more with making you think you need to buy new tvs)

I've done BF4 on 3x1920x1200, which I've now got as a permanent setup mostly for programming than anything, and the claims of people's vram use against reality are very different.

There's a thread on this forum somewhere, where people posted evidence of their vram use - use it as evidence.

8G is well ott. Memory must be cheap.

But - having said all that, if the game devs have these things available, they may use them. Has nothing to do with your resolutions tho. Textures/graphics yes, even with your 32bit games.

 

[Dicehunter]

News to me. We've been editing in 4k, it's too much of a buzz phrase being passed around tbh. 8k resolutions are being touted too. (more with making you think you need to buy new tvs)

I've done BF4 on 3x1920x1200, which I've now got as a permanent setup mostly for programming than anything, and the claims of people's vram use against reality are very different.

Yes but your still only using 1200p not 2100p aren't you

 

[SuB]

Yes but your still only using 1200p not 2160p aren't you

Doesn't matter, he's only 1 screen (in-fact less than 1 screen) away from the same amount of pixels as 4k

4k is 1920x1080 x 4 (hence, 4k)

3 x 1920x1200 isn't that far away from it dude considering it's got 120 extra rows than 3 x 1920x1080

 

[Dicehunter]

Doesn't matter, he's only 1 screen (in-fact less than 1 screen) away from the same amount of pixels as 4k

4k is 1920x1080 x 4 (hence, 4k)

3 x 1920x1200 isn't that far away from it dude considering it's got 120 extra rows than 3 x 1920x1080

Odd, Maybe it's just the way the games work then ? They see more VRAM and use it more ? Just a guess

 

[SuB]

Odd, Maybe it's just the way the games work then ? They see more VRAM and use it more ? Just a guess

If there is no ceiling I'd imagine they will use more, but I don't know personally. I've seen titanfall completely max my VRam but no-one seems to speak of it lol.

Don't forget some forms of AA is like super/multi sampling, 4k with 2x or 4x AA (can't remember the math) is basically 8k. Which is ALOT of pixels

 

[Dicehunter]

Well I'm sticking to 1080P for the foreseeable future anyway so 8GB is wasted on me ^_^

 

[ahimoth]

It is logical, although 8GB of VRAM does sound tasty but pointless at the mo at 1440p

I'm buying two more 1440p monitors for surround gaming. So something like this gets me excited in all the right places.

 

[Edge]

Eventually, 8GB VRAM will be necessary. However, I'm not convinced that by the time 8GB VRAM is standard, the power of a GTX 880 will be sufficient. So even buying it for future proofing reasons seems.. illogical.

 

[Dicehunter]

Eventually, 8GB VRAM will be necessary. However, I'm not convinced that by the time 8GB VRAM is standard, the power of a GTX 880 will be sufficient. So even buying it for future proofing reasons seems.. illogical.

Indeed, By the time your cards VRAM can be fully utilized it simply wont have the horsepower to drive it.

 

[SPS]

Textures take up the majority of VRAM and so if developers want to include very hi-res textures it wouldn't take that much more effort, and can be an video option, see Titanfall.