1*16 or 2*8

[apoyusiken]

at a local retail store i found an arc 16 gb costing twice as much as an 8gb arc. which would you prefer?

 

this is a discussion because arc is the best performance/price i believe and you might as well go all the way

[Shreyank6189]

4 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

at a local retail store i found an arc 16 gb costing twice as much as an 8gb arc. which would you prefer?

 

this is a discussion because arc is the best performance/price i believe and you might as well go all the way

if u want an Intel GPU buy the b580 if its every in stock. And if not try to find a GPU based on your budget

[apoyusiken]

2 minutes ago, Shreyank6189 said:

if u want an Intel GPU buy the b580 if its every in stock. And if not try to find a GPU based on your budget

thats not the question though.

[Eigenvektor]

8 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

thats not the question though.

Depends on the games and settings you want to play at and how long you plan on keeping the graphics cards.

 

The list of games where 8 GB is no longer enough only keeps growing, there are already several.

[Shreyank6189]

1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

Depends on the games and settings you want to play at and how long you plan on keeping the graphics cards.

 

The list of games where 8 GB is no longer enough only keeps growing, there are already several.

yes that is true 

[apoyusiken]

4 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Depends on the games and settings you want to play at and how long you plan on keeping the graphics cards.

 

The list of games where 8 GB is no longer enough only keeps growing, there are already several.

but what about getting 2 8gb cards?

or at that point is that the best performance over price?

[tkitch]

21 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

at a local retail store i found an arc 16 gb costing twice as much as an 8gb arc. which would you prefer?

 

this is a discussion because arc is the best performance/price i believe and you might as well go all the way

Depends:

If they're not both A770's?  Get the A770.  It's by far the best performer.

But:  The ARC B580 is noticably better than the A770 16GB in basically all respects, that would entirely be the go to.  

[tkitch]

2 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

but what about getting 2 8gb cards?

or at that point is that the best performance over price?

unless you're specifically doing something that will leverage 2 ARC GPUs?  That would be the worst decision you could make. 

 

If you're gaming, 2 cards is a terrible idea, you can't use 2 GPUs in games.  

[jaslion]

4 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

but what about getting 2 8gb cards?

or at that point is that the best performance over price?

Waht are you doing that would use 2 gpus?

 

Also vram isnt additive automatically. It HIGHLY depends on usecase.

 

What cards are they and whats the usecase?

 

Whats the price for them?

 

 

[Ha-Satan]

You cannot use 2 GPUs together in basically any modern game (and to be honest I think it's highly unlikely that the ARC GPUs support it anyway). That's a technology that used to be commonplace but is not used any more because we've realized that it causes too many knock-on problems to be worth it.

 

Even back when it was common to use multiple GPUs together, it did not increase your VRAM total for games. If you used two 8GB GPUs in SLI (which was Nvidia's term for using multiple GPUs for gaming), you would only have 8GB of available VRAM for the game because each GPU needs a copy of the data.

[Agall]

46 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

at a local retail store i found an arc 16 gb costing twice as much as an 8gb arc. which would you prefer?

 

this is a discussion because arc is the best performance/price i believe and you might as well go all the way

Depends on how much we're talking. At a low enough price, the A770 8GB is a very capable GPU if we're talking like $150. Given the little data you're providing, assuming the A770 16GB is $300 comparably, then there's plenty of other GPUs that are close enough and far better than an A770 in 2025, including the Arc B580.

[apoyusiken]

22 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Waht are you doing that would use 2 gpus?

 

Also vram isnt additive automatically. It HIGHLY depends on usecase.

 

What cards are they and whats the usecase?

 

Whats the price for them?

 

 

dude we dont need to over analyze this it is just a fun and actually real questio

 

but i wonder if it is fair to pay 2x the price for the 16gb. They are both a580.

[Eigenvektor]

31 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

but what about getting 2 8gb cards?

or at that point is that the best performance over price?

There's no point to it, unless you have something that can make use of multi-GPU, i.e. not games. And is fine with 8 GB if VRAM per card, because 2x 8 GB cards does not mean you have 16 GB usable in total. Whatever work you're doing needs to fit into an 8 GB VRAM buffer.

[jaslion]

1 hour ago, apoyusiken said:

dude we dont need to over analyze this it is just a fun and actually real questio

 

but i wonder if it is fair to pay 2x the price for the 16gb. They are both a580.

What am I overanalyzing? Im asking simple questions here that depending on the answer could mean 16gb fuck no or hell yes.

 

There is literally no way for me to answer your question properly without mkre info

[apoyusiken]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

What am I overanalyzing? Im asking simple questions here that depending on the answer could mean 16gb fuck no or hell yes.

 

There is literally no way for me to answer your question properly without mkre info

thanks for the intention but i was simply asking would you pay 2x the price for 2x the vram..

[jaslion]

3 hours ago, apoyusiken said:

thanks for the intention but i was simply asking would you pay 2x the price for 2x the vram..

And my answer is it depends on the usecase then.

[starsmine]

9 hours ago, apoyusiken said:

thats not the question though.

it kinda is though

there is no arc card that comes in both 8GB and 16GB varients. edit - a770 has some in both

there is no 16GB A580

Also I am not sure any intel alchemist card is great for price performance with how inconsistent its performance is. 

Battlemage is solid enough, but there is no 8gb or 16GB battlemage card, just a 10GB and 12GB one. 

[apoyusiken]

7 hours ago, starsmine said:

it kinda is though

there is no arc card that comes in both 8GB and 16GB varients. edit - a770 has some in both

there is no 16GB A580

Also I am not sure any intel alchemist card is great for price performance with how inconsistent its performance is. 

Battlemage is solid enough, but there is no 8gb or 16GB battlemage card, just a 10GB and 12GB one. 

yea my bad they are a770