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[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Does anyone know when the new cards with more memory will be released?

-Also how much memory will they have?

Why isn't everyone waiting for these? - Will they be more expensive? :lol:

[thekeemo]

the 970 and the 980 are out and have 4gb

[Guest]

We expect them with 8 GB soon but those 8 gigs wont give it too much boost unless you use 4k monitor

[TheRetiredSlave]

The 970 and 980 are out and have 4 GB of VRAM. Allegedly there is an 8 GB variant of the 980 that should be being released sometime soon.

 

They will cost more than the 4 GB cards (look at 2 GB vs 4 GB GTX 680 or 4 GB vs 8 GB R9-290X for reference). I would assume that most people aren't waiting for them because they won't make much performance difference unless you're trying to run two cards in SLI at 4K, and 4K gaming probably won't be fully achievable for a little while now.

 

 

Supposedly the 960 should launch will 4 GB of VRAM.

[sugalumps]

I say 2-4 months, though 8gb on a single card is nearing pointless. As you will run out of gpu power before you can actualy use anywhere near that on a single card.

 

Though sli @ 4k? Ye that is a good buy, as you will get a longer run out of the pair of cards with that vram.

[Scarymonkeys]

As stated above, the 970 and 980 are already out, and they have 4GB. If they only have 4GB, I expect the GTX 960 to have the same or less..I've also heard the 960 and a few other cards should come out sometime in January..

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

We expect them with 8 GB soon but those 8 gigs wont give it too much boost unless you use 4k monitor

Exactly what I'm talking about. It will give them a good boost, since the standard, set by the consoles, is to have 8GB Video ram.

We can see this in Shadow of Mordor already, and this is as I could research to, all because of quick and cheap porting from console to PC, with bad optimization.

 

The boost in GDDR5 memory to 8GB I heard on the WAN show, I think, Linus mentioned it at some point. 

[Guest]

Exactly what I'm talking about. It will give them a good boost, since the standard, set by the consoles, is to have 8GB Video ram.

We can see this in Shadow of Mordor already, and this is as I could research to, all because of quick and cheap porting from console to PC, with bad optimization.

 

The boost in GDDR5 memory to 8GB I heard on the WAN show, I think, Linus mentioned it at some point. 

I think that consoles merge ram and vram in those 8 gigs so 8GB of video ram is still not needed for 1080p