I have a game that eats 11 gb of vram on low at 1080p (I play it on windowed). It suffers from some Unreal engine shenanigans and it’s also a few years old.
UE is probably the worst engine ever made, even games from 20 years ago look better than that blurry mess of an engine. I hope nobody makes any game on it anymore, most of them are also badly optimized, never understood why people like that engine.
Depends on the use case. And even at 1080p there are quite a few games that use 8gb or close to it. Ghostrunner and LOTF (2023) come to mind. Although tbf, I played the first one on my RX580 8G (I think) almost maxed out and it did fine.
But if you’re buying a card now, especially at new modern card prices, you want to have at least a bit of future proofing.
On the flip-side, every game worth playing uses 2GB vram or less at 1080p.
That’s an absolute lie and you know it.
Even 8GB is fine to be honest, even at high settings. People are a bit dramatic about it.
I have a game that eats 11 gb of vram on low at 1080p (I play it on windowed). It suffers from some Unreal engine shenanigans and it’s also a few years old.
UE is probably the worst engine ever made, even games from 20 years ago look better than that blurry mess of an engine. I hope nobody makes any game on it anymore, most of them are also badly optimized, never understood why people like that engine.
Video editing and AI require as much VRAM as you can get. Not everyone uses the cards just for gaming.
Then don’t buy the current-gen low-end card for video editing, mate. Get previous-gen with more vRAM, or go AMD.
Depends on the use case. And even at 1080p there are quite a few games that use 8gb or close to it. Ghostrunner and LOTF (2023) come to mind. Although tbf, I played the first one on my RX580 8G (I think) almost maxed out and it did fine.
But if you’re buying a card now, especially at new modern card prices, you want to have at least a bit of future proofing.
I don’t even have a GPU, but to be honest I don’t even game anymore cuz I work more hours then there are in a day