3080s 10gb vram on 1440p

[Haak]

Many people have been worried about how the 10gb of vram on the 3080 will age in a few years. I have noticed that this discussion is about 4k leading me to think that for people like myself who game in 1440p should have plenty of headroom for years to come with the 10gb of vram. My understanding of the technical side is quite superficial so i might be missing something here. Any thoughts?

[Dedayog]

10GB is more than fine for 1440p.  People are using 2xxx series for 1440p.

 

Lot of fear mongering going on it seems.

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

If NVIDIA thought that more than 10GB would be needed, then they would have put more than 10GB on the card.

[Haak]

Just now, Dedayog said:

Lot of fear mongering going on it seems.

Agree. Just wanted to be safe as i tend to keep my HW for quite some time thus making the longevity quite important 

[Deli]

5 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

If NVIDIA thought that more than 10GB would be needed, then they would have put more than 10GB on the card.

No, Nvidia wants you to upgrade to its new cards every generation.

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

1 minute ago, Deli said:

No, Nvidia wants you to upgrade to its new cards every generation.

These are not mutually exclusive.

[Eigenvektor]

Resolution doesn't really increase memory requirements, detail levels and high-res textures do. That's what uses most of your VRAM.

[Deli]

1 minute ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

These are not mutually exclusive.

I had the GTX780. It really felt not quite enough VRAM for some games in 1080p two years after.

[Light-Yagami]

15 minutes ago, Haak said:

Many people have been worried about how the 10gb of vram on the 3080 will age in a few years. I have noticed that this discussion is about 4k leading me to think that for people like myself who game in 1440p should have plenty of headroom for years to come with the 10gb of vram. My understanding of the technical side is quite superficial so i might be missing something here. Any thoughts?

Here's the deal. Games usually want to allocate all VRAM to themselves, so you might see 10GB used in games. Like I see anywhere from 5-7gb used on my gtx 1070 (8GB VRAM). That doesn't mean that the game is using that much VRAM, it just requests it. What's more important is VRAM speed, so that the game can cull data in and out of VRAM fast enough, which the RTX 3080 certainly has. Steve from Gamers Nexus explained it in detail in one of his recent videos if you want to check it out. 

 

But in short - 10GB is enough for all games, even 4k gaming - no problem. You're far more likely to get limited in 3D workloads such as Blender, Maya or other production software.

[Zberg]

10gb is enough.  

[ewitte]

The only thing I've seen that goes over 8GB is Doom Eternal at 4K at nightmare settings and Flight Sim.  DE drops below 8GB on "ultra" settings.  That is 4k. 

[BTGbullseye]

7 hours ago, ewitte said:

The only thing I've seen that goes over 8GB is Doom Eternal at 4K at nightmare settings and Flight Sim.  DE drops below 8GB on "ultra" settings.  That is 4k. 

There are a few others, but that only happens because of a memory leak or no optimizations.

 

The only games that go over 8GB VRAM legitimately used (not just allocated, or glitch filled) use 8K textures for everything, and have a LOT of details shown with absurdly long render distances.

[ewitte]

19 hours ago, BTGbullseye said:

There are a few others, but that only happens because of a memory leak or no optimizations.

 

The only games that go over 8GB VRAM legitimately used (not just allocated, or glitch filled) use 8K textures for everything, and have a LOT of details shown with absurdly long render distances.

That is one of the most optimized titles I know.  However your probably NOT supposed to use nightmare with 8GB of VRAM.  Seeing ultra is just fine and doesn't hit 8GB.  Some titles just like to throw in options for future hardware.

[BTGbullseye]

15 hours ago, ewitte said:

However your probably NOT supposed to use nightmare with 8GB of VRAM. 

You're not. It was specifically designed for GPUs that had higher RAM. Benchmarks have proven that there is a RAM capacity bottleneck for cards with only 8GB VRAM with those settings in that game. (but only with those overkill settings)