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6gb is old, but 8gb is not enough

hawtdawg said:
realistically, the only time 8gigs might become a bottleneck is in 4K SLI situations.
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Why SLI situations? Last I knew, VRAM was was duplicated in SLI (as in, both cards needed to have the same items loaded into memory.) So unless you mean that with SLI you'll turn the settings up even higher, I don't see why the memory requirements change if you're in SLI.
 
Out of curiosity what is it that you need more than 8 GB for right now?

If you really need more, you're going to be looking at workstation cards, which are going to be incredibly expensive.
 
RampantAndroid said:
Why SLI situations? Last I knew, VRAM was was duplicated in SLI (as in, both cards needed to have the same items loaded into memory.) So unless you mean that with SLI you'll turn the settings up even higher, I don't see why the memory requirements change if you're in SLI.
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SLI enables you to use higher settings then one card, so you can use more VRAM thru these settings.
 
There are some workloads such as CUDA 3D rendering that can scarf down 8 GB of VRAM no problem. However, for such scenarios, one can easily make a case for using software rendering on a couple Xeon E5s vs more limited, and equally expensive Quadro cards.
 
wow, you guys actually understand what op is about? I am still scratching my head as to what he is talking about? it read like a reply to someone's post.
 
RampantAndroid said:
Why SLI situations? Last I knew, VRAM was was duplicated in SLI (as in, both cards needed to have the same items loaded into memory.) So unless you mean that with SLI you'll turn the settings up even higher, I don't see why the memory requirements change if you're in SLI.
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because max settings at 4K is not really feasible with anything other than SLI.
 
If you're thinking of upgrading from a 980 Ti to 1070, don't. At best they're equal, but I think the 980 Ti is generally faster. At least it is if you have an aftermarket 980 Ti.

The reference 980 Ti is awful. It's like reference Hawaii bad. While reference Hawaii was hot and loud, the 980 Ti isn't as bad in those areas, but greatly damages performance, more than the cooler on Hawaii did.

According to TPU, the 980 Ti at stock gained 9.4% performance from overclocking to 1437/2070, an aftermarket 980 Ti overclocked to 1432/2020 is 23.2% faster than reference, even though its maximum clock speed is slightly lower. The best aftermarket 980 Ti is 34.4% faster than reference.
 
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> 6gb is old, but 8gb is not enough

Because reasons?

OP, please ask a more specific question or at least explain why you think you need more than 8 GB.
 
6GB is old? Not many games eat more than 4GB right now, even BF4 maxed out goes about ~4.5-5GB. For VR 8GB is reasonably enough, if you're not into VR then 8GB is going to least you for a few years, it's more than enough for now.
 
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