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8 gig 980's?

hawtdawg

hawtdawg

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how soon will we see them? With games claiming to need 6 gigs already, it seems like a bad idea to get anything less.
 
U mean 6gb vid cards? Are they really gonna make the jump from 4gb to 8gb thst soon? 4gb has just become standard for high end cards last week, i dont see 8gb cards for another 2 years atleast. I assure u games asking for 6gb are just terrible ports from consoles.
 
I wouldn't be surprised.

8GB 980's but only 4GB 980Ti's.

Because Nvidia likes to f*ck with people like that.
 
lol Shadow of Mordor is an action rpg it will be CPU bound most likely. By the time you need 6GB video cards the Titan and GTX 980 will be garbage. You will need GM200/Titan II processing power before you need 6GB of RAM.
 
poohbear said:
U mean 6gb vid cards? Are they really gonna make the jump from 4gb to 8gb thst soon? 4gb has just become standard for high end cards last week, i dont see 8gb cards for another 2 years atleast. I assure u games asking for 6gb are just terrible ports from consoles.
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Yes, 8GB. 4GB to 6GB would mean having mismatched DRAM density for those 4GB cards. 8GB wouldn't, so would be more likely.

4GB cards have been available for a few years now. Only in the last few weeks did they became standard. 4GB and 6GB are not exactly new for high-end cards.
 
hawtdawg said:
With games claiming to need 6 gigs already, it seems like a bad idea to get anything less.
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What games? Recommending more at the highest settings just means not wasting the time to make high-res textures, only to scale them down. I say bring it on. You don't have to use those settings right now, but it will be a welcome change from fuzzy textures and spare VRAM, that has been the norm for most [unmodded] games for years, now. Why should we need mods for what they could have built in, when and if we get the hardware capable of it? Until then, unless you own one of the rare 6GB cards, use the 3-4GB settings.
 
Nvidia and AMD don't like manufacturers putting lots oh vram on certain cards, as they compete with their professional lineup. I don't think we'll see 8GB 980's.
 
Flapdrol1337 said:
Nvidia and AMD don't like manufacturers putting lots oh vram on certain cards, as they compete with their professional lineup. I don't think we'll see 8GB 980's.
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Professional cards differ due to non-crippled DP and specific drivers.

For multi-card setups for 980s, 8GB makes sense to really "future-proof" it. I'm expecting a lot of AAA cross-platform titles will have optional ultra texture downloads for the PC version just to crank it up a notch for users who can handle it.

Combined with 4K prices, it makes sense.
 
Have a feeling GPU manufacturers are coercing game devs to go for graphics features, extra textures to help market their higher vram cards better.
 
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