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This Thread is on just how much video memory is actually needed for gaming at 2560x1600p/1440p. While I and other gamers are doing fine with 4GB, I'm just wondering if mid-range gamers will need more in the near future. Will we?

If I was at 1080 then this wouldn't be a concern at all.

It's 100% dependent upon the game being discussed.

A game from a decade ago may use 512 MB at 1080p. One from this year may use 9 GB at 1080p.

More is better, but it all comes down to what games you're talking about.

Waco wrote:

It's 100% dependent upon the game being discussed.

A game from a decade ago may use 512 MB at 1080p. One from this year may use 9 GB at 1080p.

More is better, but it all comes down to what games you're talking about.

9GB at 1080p??? Well I supposed with AA turned on and the new hardware based Ray Tracing Nvidia's new RTX has will use that much or even more. But how common are games that support Ray Tracing? Geeze and here I was thinking that 4K took up a lot of video memory... I can assume that this with this Year's AAA games?

Waco wrote:

It's 100% dependent upon the game being discussed.

A game from a decade ago may use 512 MB at 1080p. One from this year may use 9 GB at 1080p.

More is better, but it all comes down to what games you're talking about.

It depends more on the assets of game in question. Textures and model complexity is what really drives up VRAM consumption. Resolution has a weak influence on it. 8GiB is going to be a sweet spot for next couple of years since PS5/Xbox Series X are going consuming that much for their graphical content (They have a 16GiB shared pool which needs room for non-graphical assets) . You only need more if you want to AA/AF or utilize third-party texture mods.

Krogoth wrote:

Waco wrote:

It's 100% dependent upon the game being discussed.

A game from a decade ago may use 512 MB at 1080p. One from this year may use 9 GB at 1080p.

More is better, but it all comes down to what games you're talking about.

It depends more on the assets of game in question. Textures and model complexity is what really drives up VRAM consumption. Resolution has a weak influence on it.

That's...what I said.