Not too sore about not scoring an RTX 3000

[Doug_Dangger]

Now that I think about it, my 1070FE is still rolling strong.  I game at 1080p 144hz and it more than delivers.  I have all the sliders to the right but minus AA and the ever disgusting motion blur to the left.

I used to have a 970FE before this.  It was good for gaming up to 80fps for games up until around 2017.  I see the dips when vram hits the 3.5GB limit.  That pretty much made me upgrade to the 1070.

Since I can't buy a 3070 for the $500 msrp I just went ahead and got an i7 (from my 4th gen i5) m.2 and ssd all around and what the heck... 32gb ram.  I have no plans on buying a new gpu the rest of this year.  Unless of course I see one at msrp.  Other than that scalpers won't get a dime from me. 

 

To my surprise this is the first time I saw my vram nearly hitting the ceiling.

[curiousmind34]

funny thing is that the vram from the 5 year old gtx 1070 is the same as the 3070

edit: amount of vram

[tikker]

4 minutes ago, Doug_Dangger said:

To my surprise this is the first time I saw my vram nearly hitting the ceiling.

The whole VRAM debacle was blown out of proportion. If I'm not mistaken, the latest version of Afterburner (perhaps a beta) now has functionality to report the actively used amount of VRAM as well (compared to only the allocated amount), which is a lower typically.

[Mark Kaine]

Oh if you like VRAM bottlenecks try Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes, at *max* settings,  Monster Hunter World with HD texture pack will also give it a run for its money!  Good luck! 

 

If you afterwards want more "why my measly 8GB VRAM aren't even close to being enough" just ask ~

[Mark Kaine]

4 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

funny thing is that the vram from the 5 year old gtx 1070 is the same as the 3070

*except "faster" (not that games would care about that lol)

 

3 minutes ago, tikker said:

The whole VRAM debacle was blown out of proportion. If I'm not mistaken, the latest version of Afterburner (perhaps a beta) now has functionality to report the actively used amount of VRAM as well (compared to only the allocated amount), which is a lower typically.

Had it for a while now,  hwinfo64 for example also (like at least a year if I had to guess)

 

 

 

 

 

[MadAnt250]

2 hours ago, Doug_Dangger said:

That pretty much made me upgrade to the 1070.

Since I can't buy a 3070 for the $500 msrp I just went ahead and got an i7 (from my 4th gen i5) m.2 and ssd all around and what the heck... 32gb ram.  I have no plans on buying a new gpu the rest of this year. 

There you go, proof for the people with new builds that they don't need an RTX 3000 series GPU to enjoy games.

[Froody129]

My 980ti (close enough to equal the 1070 when overclocked) is also still pulling strong. I play at 1440p144hz, so dropping settings is necessary, but for the games I play I'm still plenty happy to have this card given the current market