4 vs 2 Gig VRAM

[gamerxxl12]

For dual 1080p monitor use should I get 2 or 4 gbs of VRAM? I'll use one for gaming and the second one for general use (Skype, web browsing, ect).

[gamerxxl12]

PS. I could get a GTX 770 2gb or a GTX 670 4gb, I don't care about maxing out games, just playing them with high settings.

[_ASSASSIN_]

if you are looking into the future, 3-4GB of VRAM will be necessary (4K), but I think that a GTX 770 2GB will plain be the better value for 1080p gaming, vram makes very little difference

[Vitalius]

Go with the 770 2GB. Since you are only gaming on one monitor, 2GB is plenty.

[Hyydrah]

Go with the 770 2GB. Since you are only gaming on one monitor, 2GB is plenty.

Unless you're playing Crysis 3, Arma 3, etc.

[Vitalius]

Unless you're playing Crysis 3, Arma 3, etc.

 I don't care about maxing out games, just playing them with high settings.

With minimal AA and only high settings (even the lowest settings on Crysis 3 can be considered relatively "high"), he should be fine.

[Hyydrah]

With minimal AA and only high settings (even the lowest settings on Crysis 3 can be considered relatively "high"), he should be fine.

I guess it depends on what you consider to be fine. On a 680 with 2GB VRAM (which is basically on par with the 770), it struggles a bit at times in Crysis 3, even on lower settings (sometimes dipping to 40FPS which isn't acceptable in my opinion). The VRAM was completely saturated when I tested it.

[_ASSASSIN_]

I guess it depends on what you consider to be fine. On a 680 with 2GB VRAM (which is basically on par with the 770), it struggles a bit at times in Crysis 3, even on lower settings (sometimes dipping to 40FPS which isn't acceptable in my opinion).

dude, that's one game, designed to rip up your graphics card, not every game will do that, so reasoning it that way, a 770 will be great

[Vitalius]

I guess it depends on what you consider to be fine. On a 680 with 2GB VRAM (which is basically on par with the 770), it struggles a bit at times in Crysis 3, even on lower settings (sometimes dipping to 40FPS which isn't acceptable in my opinion).

I consider anything over 35FPS acceptable personally. Any less than that and it's choppy to me.

[Hyydrah]

dude, that's one game, designed to rip up your graphics card, not every game will do that, so reasoning it that way, a 770 will be great

And another is Arma 3 which REALLY benefits from more VRAM. You can observe a halved frame rate once all of your VRAM is used, it's unacceptable. Those are only the games that I played too, and I haven't played many.

[_ASSASSIN_]

And another is Arma 3 which REALLY benefits from more VRAM. You can observe a halved frame rate once all of your VRAM is used, it's unacceptable. Those are only the games that I played too, and I haven't played many.

ok, but in that game you can reduce the draw distance which creates the need for that, just use a console command and it fixes that

[Hyydrah]

ok, but in that game you can reduce the draw distance which creates the need for that, just use a console command and it fixes that

It still doesn't fix it completely, especially when AI gets involved (which they do in most servers).

[_ASSASSIN_]

It still doesn't fix it completely, especially when AI gets involved (which they do in most servers).

assuming he isn't a hardcore arma 3 fan, 770 will be fine

[Hyydrah]

assuming he isn't a hardcore arma 3 fan, 770 will be fine

Probably, I'm just pointing out that it may not run well enough on every game at high settings.