Memory Bandwidth

[PepeUYB]

Hypothetically if one were to buy a gpu for 1440p gaming, would 8gb of vram on a 256 bit bus be enough to cover you for 3-4 years?

 

I don't wanna upgrade in 2 years already but the games I pretty much only play are bigger/more demanding titles. What in your opinion would be the minimum amount of bandwidth to "futureproof" 1440 p gaming at high resolutions? And is it reason enough to not buy a 3070 and to wait for RDNA2 but maybe not getting either cards.

 

(SI: I don't wanna go into 3080 price territory, not that I'd most likely get one anyway.)

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25 minutes ago, PepeUYB said:

Hypothetically if one were to buy a gpu for 1440p gaming, would 8gb of vram on a 256 bit bus be enough to cover you for 3-4 years?

 

I don't wanna upgrade in 2 years already but the games I pretty much only play are bigger/more demanding titles. What in your opinion would be the minimum amount of bandwidth to "futureproof" 1440 p gaming at high resolutions? And is it reason enough to not buy a 3070 and to wait for RDNA2 but maybe not getting either cards.

 

(SI: I don't wanna go into 3080 price territory, not that I'd most likely get one anyway.)

Maybe not? For example, even the 10GB on the 3080 seems a bit small to me; I'm not thrilled that it doesn't have more. The equivalent card of the last generation (I think?) had 12GB's.

Not sure if bandwidth would really make a difference? Going by capacity alone I'd say 8GB isn't that much, but if it's only to cover the next two years, it might be okay? Not sure how much capacity stuff like enabling high definition textures takes up; I'm still on a GTX 970 (4GB's vram) so I can't use high definition textures in Far Cry 5 for example.

Also, if you want to do a lot of game modding often the more vram the better.

Other than that, I can't really give you solid figures, but maybe others here can give you specifics if you post a new, more specific question.