Gaming in the future, VRAM

[NE0XY]

Hi,

 

So with the release of the TitanX and it's 12GB of vram I've seen alot of discussions regarding the price/perfomance of 980sli vs TitanX, som of the aspects were bad SLI scaling etc but what I wonder is: How much VRAM do we see games demanding on highest settings in 1080p, 1440p and 4K?

 

Which solution would be better for the next 3 years? 

 

Will games over the next 2-3 years start demanding so much VRAM that one would need more than the 4GB a 980 offers?

 

Thank you for your input

[QueenDemetria]

Which solution would be better for the next 3 years? 

Dual 980's(or similar card) will be the better solution than a Titan X in my opinion. By the time games require/take advantage of 12Gb of VRAM the Titans GPU won't be powerful enough to run the game in a decent way(either beautiful and slow or ugly and fast). At least with the dual 980's there will be lots of processing power, assuming SLI is supported. Also, with DX12 I think cards can combine VRAM, so technically the dual 980's would have 8Gb available, and as scaling gets better overtime SLI compatibility won't be as much of an issue.

[Critizin]

Dual 980's(or similar card) will be the better solution than a Titan X in my opinion. By the time games require/take advantage of 12Gb of VRAM the Titans GPU won't be powerful enough to run the game in a decent way(either beautiful and slow or ugly and fast). At least with the dual 980's there will be lots of processing power, assuming SLI is supported. Also, with DX12 I think cards can combine VRAM, so technically the dual 980's would have 8Gb available, and as scaling gets better overtime SLI compatibility won't be as much of an issue.

The SLI/Crossfire tech has been around awhile now and games are still horrible optimized for it....      i wonder when this will change...

[QueenDemetria]

The SLI/Crossfire tech has been around awhile now and games are still horrible optimized for it....      i wonder when this will change...

DX12 might help, won't know for sure though until its released.

[Acquire]

Titan X benchmarks show it using close to 6GB of vram in some games at 4k. These games also show that even though average fps is higher on two 980s, min fps is significantly lower due to vram limitations. 12GB is excessive, but 4GB is insufficient. If you're going to try and do 4k gaming now, I'd say titan x is the way to go. I'd actually go for two of them to ensure high frame rate. With two 980s I'd stick to 1440p.

[NE0XY]

I'm not sure I'll go into 4k gaming for now, I'm quite satisfied with 1080p for now, might consider 1440p If 'd get high frame rates that is. 

[Critizin]

I'm not sure I'll go into 4k gaming for now, I'm quite satisfied with 1080p for now, might consider 1440p If 'd get high frame rates that is. 

im running a single 980 on my 1440p asus ROG swift and i get good frame rates.

[NE0XY]

im running a single 980 on my 1440p asus ROG swift and i get good frame rates.

 

I know 980 is a strong card today but I was more inclined to see how people would think it'd perform over the next 2-3 years in regards of it's vram =)

 

Let's say for the arguments sake that I'd use 1440p, what would be best for the next 2-3 years, 2 980 in sli or 1 TitanX, also, I have a powerful watercooling setup so I have the potential for some overclocking =) The parameters I'm interested is if the 4gb o vram will be a bottleneck if I wanted as high settings as possible.

 

Thank you, hope you understood my swenglish =P

[Critizin]

I know 980 is a strong card today but I was more inclined to see how people would think it'd perform over the next 2-3 years in regards of it's vram =)

 

Let's say for the arguments sake that I'd use 1440p, what would be best for the next 2-3 years, 2 980 in sli or 1 TitanX, also, I have a powerful watercooling setup so I have the potential for some overclocking =) The parameters I'm interested is if the 4gb o vram will be a bottleneck if I wanted as high settings as possible.

 

Thank you, hope you understood my swenglish =P

980 SLI for sure..  a single Titan X will not have the processing power Dual 980's have  and with directx 12  dual 980s will be 8GB (Provided the rumors are true about DX12)

[NE0XY]

Thank you for the answers =) 

Let's hope the rumours are true then =D Then it'll be 980 sli for sure =D

I'm very interested in the poseidon cards =P 

 

Edit: I might've found two 980 Strix cards for 991 dollars including VAT