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How will video ram needs increase in the next few years?
Johnmakuta posted a topic in Graphics Cards
I am looking at either investing in a set of 390Xs or a single 980 ti. I am really worried about my vram becoming too little because my GTX 770 with 2GBs is just not enough any more. So what I am wondering if I should go for the beefy 8 GBs of memory the 390Xs offer or the somewhat lesser 6GBs of the 980 ti. Basically my question is: Are we going to start needed more than 4GBs of vram in the next 3 years? In three years will I be scraping by with 6GBs just hoping the next triple A titles don't require more than that to run at ultra settings? -
Greetings everyone, I want to buy a GPU and I'm pretty sure i'll get the GTX 960 4GB or 2GB, that depends on the price. But what im not sure about is that what manufacturer should i go for. I'm confused between Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 Strix DirectCU II Graphics Card and ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 AMP! 4GB GDDR5. I'll be using it with i5 6600, Gigabyte H170 Gaming 3 board powered by Cooler Master GX650. I want to know whether there are any difference or not. Even the slightest ones. Basically every detail of any existing difference. Oh yes, i already checked GPUBOSS. I don't see any difference other than the clock speed. Thank you in advance.
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so i want to get a new card ONLY FOR 1080p 60 FPS..... but i dont know what is better for my money. My limit is 550$. So my choices are the 390 8gb for about 350$ or the nano for about 489$. all i want is a solid 60 fps in 1080p. i do not care about anything above 60fps or 4k. i use my 60inch vizio tv as a monitor so i cant go higher then that anyway. so what do you think is best for that? the card i have atm is a amd 7850 2gb.
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I have been enjoying my XFX Radeon HD 6870 for about 3.5 years now. It works very well but it is getting around time to upgrade. I'd like to have 4GB or more of GDDR5. I'm planning on spending $300-$350 (yay Tax Returns!) on a new card. I have used mostly AMD (usually XFX branded) GPUs and have been very happy. I have had friends and family that have had problems with their NVidia GPUs before. (granted those were mostly pretty cheap cards) I am leaning towards an AMD (XFX branded) but am not completely against the idea of going with a NVidia card if there will be better performance. My Current Rig: Processor: i7-4771 CPU (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116941) RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233299) Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 6870 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150521) Power Supply: Corsair CX750 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139040) Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131989) 240 GB Boot SSD 1TB Storage SSD GPU size shouldn't be an issue thanks to my monster case (THOR by Rosewill) I have three 23 inch 1920*1080 monitors. I only have DVI-D and VGA inputs. I tend to only use the middle once for gaming. I would like the card to have enough horsepower to be able to run all three cards in eyeFinity (and whatever NVidia's equivalent technology is). I usually use softTH (http://softth.net/) because I can choose to use it on a per game basis. I've attached a picture of the inside of my case for size reference. Sorry for the potato picture quality. Please let me know what your opinions are. Let me know if you guys have any more questions. --Cody
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So I have some trouble deciding about my gpu, I already now that I do not want any nvidia card (except 980ti but that's out of my budget lol). I just don't know what to get between the 390, 390x or maybe even extend my budget by a bit and get the Fury (non x), also need help with what brand to buy and such. Been looking at the asus strix card aswell as the MSI cards. My specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Ttb3pg Might be getting a second one in the future and if so, would I need a bigger psu? I will be playing: GTAV, BF4, CS:GO and the new NFS which will be releasing soon.. I play at 1080p atm but will probably move up to 1440p/21:9 or even 4k but that won't happen in the next 6 months at least.
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Hi, ..I need some help over this 3(the same cards) Which of this will play better games on a resolutions such as 720p, 900p, MAX 1050p. First is the MSI GT 730 2GB of GDDR3 64 Bit MSI GT 730 1GB GDDR5 64 Bit MSI GT 730 2GB GDDR3 128 Bit
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Could a mod move this to the tech news forum please, I feel like it'll get more exposure there. If listings are correct then the 300 series looks like it will be an entire re brand. The 390 Hawaii, 380 Tonga and 370 Pitcairn. It then seems logical to think that AMD will be giving the HBM cards their own branding, much like Nvidia do with the Titan series. AMD recently stated that they don't want to be known as the value brand and I don't think this will help them, if the information is correct. Re-branding the entire series and making the HBM cards enthusiast grade isn't likely to help them in the market share department unless HBM lives up to the hype. It sounds like AMD was surprised by the 900 series and makes me think that AMD are still struggling to make chips more power efficient. The source is wccftech so take it with a pinch of salt. Source: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-390x-hawaii-8-gb-gddr5-spotted-radeon-r9-380-tonga-r9-370-pitcairn-rebrands/ Direct links to the card pages can be found below. https://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=9&model=R9390X-DC2-8GD5&SLanguage=en-us https://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=9&model=R7360-2GD5&SLanguage=en-us -
I wanted to ask a question, what does G mean?
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Hey guys, I'm going to get another GTX 970 and run it in an SLI config (2x ASUS STRIX GTX 970), and I have two questions. 1) Do I have 4GB or 8GB then? Will the memory be shared in a Raid kinda thing? 2) If a game needs more than 3.5 GB of VRAM, will it use the slower 0.5GB, or the 3.5GB on the other card? Thanks, Marc
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In my case this is a gtx 960 2gb vs a gtx 960 4gb, but I assume the answer would apply to almost all cards. -
Hey guys, I got a nice ASUS Strix GTX 970 Video card, and in some games I can a the allocated video ram limit. As you all probably know, there are 3.5 gb + slower 0.5 gb on the 970. Many games don't even go up to more than 2GB today, but in GTA 4 I want to mod the hell out of it with graphics mods, and is it better to turn the max VRAM to 4GB or 3.5 if that is possible? Thanks.
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Guys actaully why Titan X is cheper than Titan Z ? Is 390x better than Titan X by the specs? with new HBM thing What was u going to recomment me by specs ?
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So im picking out some parts for a new build. Im trying to go with a mid level expense/performance computer. I choose Kaveri. Linus and AMD say that Kaveri is great with an R7 250, so thats what im gonna spring for. The R7 250 has two variants and a million manufactures. I wanted an answer for some questions about them. >should I go with the GDDR5 1 gig or the DDR3 2 gig? >Which manufactures would you guys recommend? >Should I even be buying a R7 250, or is there a better card out there now for that price range? >Would it be worth crossfiring it with the Kaveri or doubling up on that cards later down the road? Thanks alot guys. I appreciate the help here. If it means anything im planning on using a Asus Crossblade Ranger.
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Good day fellow LTT friends, Just got a noobie question about sli....will there be an issue with sli if one gpu has more memory than the other?
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With all the hype of Sapphires new R9-290X with a whopping 8GB of GDDR5 being announced, I found PowerColor has a card for sale as a competitor to Sapphires new card through Overclockers UK for around the same price as said, Sapphires card, Another R9-290X with 8GB of GDDR5. Which is similarly to the Sapphire card, an OcUK Exclusive. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-176-PC Here are the specifications of the card: I like the fact that they pointed out the cards hash rate for Litecoin mining. But under Memory Capacity, there it is, a full 8GB of GDDR5. It supports the usual features of a 290x such as: 2xDVI, 1x HDMI and 1x Display Port 1.2 True Audio Mantle DirextX 11.2 (I presume DirectX 12 when it is released) The Price is £379.99 for pre-order, expected on the 21/11/14 vs Sapphires £389.99 which is available now My two cents: To be completely honest, I prefer the look of PowerColors PCS+ line compared to Sapphires Vapor-X line, Don't miss-understand me, I like them both, but if I had to pick... Sorry Sapphire. As to the 8Gb of VRAM, Since 4K monitors are coming down in price so much, (I have found 4K Monitors for cheaper than some 1440p monitors (Cheap 4K Monitor, Click Me - Amazon)) It makes sense to have cards with the extra VRAM. What are your opinions of this card? Does it make sense? Is PowerColor just trying to compete with Sapphire because they can?
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I play games on the resolution 1152x864 at medium to full detail I had to sold my HD 4830 to buy a HDD. A guy is offering me his HD 5670 for 55$. Will it be any good for 2 years to play all the latest games.
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Post at /. Well. That's a cool idea. Sad it didn't happen (maybe next APU gen). I can't imagine how good an APU would be with it's own personal GDDR5 RAM. Probably like this, but without the crossfire (as I assume the boost is partly because the APU is getting GDDR5 RAM). I'm... blank on what having an extra Hypertransport link means. I assume higher bandwidth within the motherboard itself? (i.e. more PCI-e bandwidth specifically) I could be wrong there. I ... just have no idea what Hyperstransport is. I assume it is what I said (effectively what gives the bandwidth within the motherboard between all the components/interfaces). An 8 core Kaveri would be awesome. As long as it isn't sharing core resources (like FX chips do), but I figure it wouldn't as AMD has learned their lesson there. Interesting comments section: -
Hi guys! I have a little curiosity about the compatibility of a ATX Motherboard to a GDDR5 Graphics card. The graphics card supported the chipset of the motherboard. It is possible to combine both Motherboard that is ATX form factor and a graphics card of GDDR5 memory type? thanks I wait for your reply and God Bless )
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Any thoughts on these graphic cards and which one would you buy and why? feel free to add to this list if noteworthy Palit GTX780Ti JetStream OC 3G-P4-2883-KR NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 780 OC (GV-N780OC-3GD) Rev. 2.0 My Build In Progress: Main Purpose: Gaming COD Ghosts, BF4, Crysis 3 (FFPS) CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X60 98.3 CFM Liquid Motherboard: ASRock Z87 OC Formula EATX LGA1150 or ASRock Z87 OC/ac version Memory: G.Skill Trident X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-2666 Storage: Samsung EVO 1TB 2.5" SSD Video Card: Still debating?? EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB or GIGABYTE GTX 780 Ti WindForce 3X OC (Will SLI whichever GPU is selected) Case: NZXT Phantom 820 Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 1200W ATX12V / EPS12V OS: Windows 7 Ultimate N OPTICAL DRIVE: ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Monitor: Asus VG278HE 144hz
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I need to choose a graphic card, here's my criteria. Essentials : GTX Engine Frequency : 900 Mhz and more Memory : 1 GB GDDR5 and more Price : 165 $ and less Native UEFI support Assets : PCI-Express 3.0 HDMI Thanks in advance
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Lets start with some figures, 65% performance improvement over GDDR5, 40% power reduction and 37X size reduction over DDR4. This new memory technology is AMD's & Hynix's answer to supplying the next generation of APUs & GPUs with the necessary memory bandwidth to reach maximum performance, essentially eliminating one of the major bottlenecks of GPGPU compute present today. HBM stands for High Bandwidth Memory, and it's made essentially by stacking multiple memory chips on top of each other via die-stacking technology, creating a 3D memory structure made up of a large number of memory floors. HBM doesn't increase bandwidth by raising memory frequency similar to GDDR5 rather by significantly increasing the number of channels through which the data can travel. Think of GDDR5 as a Ferrari and HBM as a bus, while people represent data or bits. The bus is slower but can carry a significantly larger number of people. Similarly HBM is slower than GDDR5 in terms of frequency but can move orders of magnitude more data in the same time period as GDDR5 According to Bryan Black, AMD is ready to make the move to HBM memory and Minsuk Suh, principle engineer at Hynix confirmed that they are readying both 3D stacked memory for main memory and 3D stacked HBM for networking and graphics applications. JEDEC specifications for these products are “mostly finalized.” Suh indicated that the first application for HBM would be GPUs and that it will next move to networking and HPC applications. This suggests that AMD's upcoming generation of discrete GPUs is likely to use the new HBM technology. Source -
Hi again everyone, So... I was modding Skyrim and added loads of graphics mod and an ENB making the game totally stunning to my eyes, but the thing is I start to notice my 2GB Inno3D iChill GTX770 is failing on me, it just keeps running out of VRAM and CTD miserably, especially in open, flat terrains. Upon Research I found out that heavily modded Skyrim actually needs more than what I would expect, most of the forum posts indicates heavily modded Skyrim will at least need 3GB of VRAM. I got frustrated with the constant CTD and tried a lot of software methods (e.g. texture optimizer, performance mod)to try to reduce the VRAM usage but have not gained a bit success. I really don't wanna sacrifice the visual quality, so I didn't went for the visually downgrading methods. After more googling and stuff, I found out that the 4GB versions of the GTX770s, no matter for which brand, have no big physical differences from the 2GB version, except for more flash chips, usually positioned at the back of the card, around the GPU (probably because Nvidia limits the power delivery and PCB design?). I also notice the positions and suspected soldering pads (though without solder but numerous tiny pits) for those flash also exist in the 2GB versions, then I wonder: will adding VRAM to these 2GB GTX770s just be as simple as placing the flash chips and reflowing them with a hot air gun? Some examples:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127751 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133490 Then I got more into the details and found out the that the Inno3D iChill 2GB GTX770 I have, uses the GDDR5 flash chips, modle-named H5GQ2H24AFR (R2C) from SKhynix (link:http://www.skhynix.com/products/graphics/graphics.jsp?info.ramCategory=&info.ramKind=26&info.eol=NOT&posMap=graphicsGDDR5), with density of 2Gb. At the same time, the company produces GDDR5 flash with 4Gb density, but I don't exactly how it differs, is it the total capacity of VRAM? I don't know. To my curiosity, I wanted to know the answers but couldn't find a single thing about adding VRAM to graphics card on the internet, so I have came to see if there are more intelligent brains here that can unveil the truth. So to make things simple, here are the questions: 1. Generally, can lower vram capacity versions of graphics card be added vram through reflowing flash chips on the aforementioned positions? Is bio flashing or any software tweaking needed? Are there past examples and attempts, succeed or failed, being recorded and are available for reference? 2. What effect has the densities (namely 1Gb, 2Gb and 4Gb) of the GDDR5 flash chips on the outcome? Is it the total capacity or something else? I also notice there is a difference under the variable short-termed ORG., where the 2Gb and 4Gb densities, are 64MX32 and 128MX32 respectively. Thank you so much and any input is much appreciated, mods please feel free to move my post to other sections if you think my post is not related.
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So I remember when the GTX 780 was the big dog gpu, with its massive 3gigs of VRAM and crazy performance. During that time period I was running the beastly (not) HD 5770 1GB and a lga 1156 pentium. I remember being able to play GTA 5 at medium settings at 60-80fps, I could play Mad Max on high and get a solid 60fps. Now it seems in 2019 these cards are really only good for paperweights, a good example is the GTX 570, It has pretty decent performance even by todays standards, about the same as a rx 550 give or take. Or at least it would if it wasn't bottlenecked to heck and back by its measly 1.25gigs of VRAM. Now I have alot of these 1GB cards around, such as a HD 5770, HD 6770, HD 6790, GTX 460, GTX 560TI, GTS 250, and a few others. Is there anything of value I can do with these or just keep them as shelf pieces? My friend is upgrading his gaming setup and he had a HD 6770 but hes "upgrading" to a gt 730, which is a downgrade in every aspect other than memory, its such a shame to see all these great budget cards have no use anymore. Any ideas on what to do with them?
