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Then put 8GB in a 9060 non-XT and sell it for $200. You're just wasting dies that could've been used to make more 16GB cards available (or at least a 12 GB version instead of 8).
Do you just not want more money?
Nvidia have dropped the ball epically and you have a golden opportunity to regain some GPU share here.
IMHO The Problem is only partly the 8GB VRAM (for 1080p). An at least equal part of the Problem is the sitty Optimisation of some game engines. Especially Unreal Engine 5.
Yeah seeing a cool game and then seeing it's made in UE5 really puts a damper on things. I wish the engine had more work into performance optimization.
What would you do to optimize it more?
I would ask ChatGPT to review the source code and optimize it 😈
Task failed Successfully! Now 8TB is the minimum. Well at least it's still 8. :)
There is nothing wrong with Unreal Engine and UE5 is not meaningfully different than UE4. The problem is that developers only “optimize” to pass console certifications while PC gamers are left out in the cold. It also doesn’t help that PC gamers have a lot more options and will often insist on choosing settings that are far beyond the capabilities of their particular hardware.
This video I just watched the other day says otherwise (with clear evidence.)
He is only testing AAA games at top settings. And that's the point AMD is "making". Most pc gamers are out there playing Esport titles at the lowest possible settings in 1080p to get the max fps possible. They're not wrong, but you could still say that it's ridiculous to buy a brand-new modern card only expecting to run esport titles. Most people I know that buy modern GPUs will decide to play new hot games.
Ive got 16gb of vram 2k monitor and this tracks pretty accurately. I almost never use over 8gb. The only games that I can break 10gb are games where I can enable a setting (designed for old PCs) where I can load all the textures into vram.
Weird. You must be playing old games. Most modern games are going over 8gb at 1440p no problem. They have been for at least a few years now.
I would agree because 8gb is entry for desktop gaming and most people start at entry level
The full tweet:
Majority of gamers are still playing at 1080p and have no use for more than 8GB of memory. Most played games WW are mostly esports games. We wouldn't build it if there wasn't a market for it. If 8GB isn't right for you then there's 16GB. Same GPU, no compromise, just memory options.
I don't think he's that far off; eSports games don't have the same requirements as AAA single-player games.
This is a much more nuanced take than the headlines implies.
I still see it being an issue of pricing and questionable value (over older/used/already-owned) of a bottlenecked part, particularly when it ends up with users who aren't esports users (for a multitude of reasons). In other words: stagnation.
It's more obvious with AMD selling new 4GB cards still in the budget category rather than ultra-budget, as in they aren't raising the floor. The jokes still work:
EDIT: There were even polaris GPUs with 8GB
Are you saying journalists will publish articles with inflammatory headlines to maximize engagement with their ad-based website funding? Nah way, I don believe it.
Just as an FYI editors usually pick the headlines.
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Tell that to game developers. Specifically the ones that routinely don't optimize shit.
Or to gamers who insist on playing these unoptimized games at max settings. $80 for the game, and then spend $1000 buying a gpu that can run the game.
Guess I'll stick with my GTX 1070TI until next century when GPU manufacturers have passed the bong to someone else. Prices are insane for the performance they provide these days.
Same. I've encountered exactly one game, ever, that I couldn't play with that card, and that was last month with Doom: Dark Ages which won't even boot without RTX support.
Literally never had a single other problem over the past 7 years of use. I played Cyberpunk 2077 with that card. I'm currently playing Clair Obscur with that card and it looks stupendously beautiful on it.
Recently gave in and upgraded to a 9070 XT
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Lmao. AMD out here fumbling a lay up.
I mean honestly, yeah. With a simple 4 GB chip they could have won the low end and not screwed over gamers.
They've really seemed to have forgotten their roots with the GPU market, which is a damn shame.
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