>4GB VRAM usage?

[Spar10]

Are there any games today which consumes more than 4gigs of vram at 1080p ultra settings? What about 1 or 2 years down the line?

[VioDuskar]

GTA 5 is the only one i know of that maxes out 4G VRAM. at 1080p. 

[Aytex]

not really, 4gb right now is the sweet spot for 1080p 2gb is too little and 6+ gb is more than needed

 

 

cept gta 5

[Guest Kloaked]

Ones with memory leaks do.

 

Only Shadow of Mordor does to my knowledge with the texture pack.

[Ihaveswag]

Are there any games today which consumes more than 4gigs of vram at 1080p ultra settings? What about 1 or 2 years down the line?

BF4 at 1080p ultra uses 2050MB on my gtx 970, so for 4k you should be fine with 3-4GB, ofc you will need more in the future for ultra, but currently not

[Morgan MLGman]

GTA V, Shadow of Mordor, Batman: Arkham Knight are one of the games that may demand more than 4 gigs of VRAM depending on the settings.

[Spar10]

BF4 at 1080p ultra uses 2050MB on my gtx 970, so for 4k you should be fine with 3-4GB, ofc you will need more in the future for ultra, but currently not

How about gta5 with all settings cranked up?

I am confused whether i should buy 970 or 390/x

[Praesi]

GTA5 can pushed to 6GBVRAM.

[manikyath]

theres this 3rd party second life viewer that can cripple a titan X... <.< >.>

[Aytex]

How about gta5 with all settings cranked up?

I am confused whether i should buy 970 or 390/x

buy a 970 if you like the cool features that Geforce gives you like shadow play and crap

buy a 390 or a 390x if you want more bang for your buck, more VRAM and more performance (not by a huge amount but a noticeable one 970 and a 390x is a big difference though)

[Kobathor]

How about gta5 with all settings cranked up?

I am confused whether i should buy 970 or 390/x

Just buy the 390/x. Better price/performance. (also just performs better than 970 anyway.)

Also, everybody else has listed the games. Not that many use more. The 8gb VRAM on the 390&390X is a lot, but future games will use more VRAM at 1080p and you'll want that extra buffer, especially since it doesn't cost more.

 

EDIT- Oh yeah, if you want Shadowplay you gotta get an NVidia GPU. But, I wouldn't buy a lesser card for one feature that can be replaced imo

[manikyath]

as a happy GTX970 owner, i'm gonna say this:

 

if you're worried about VRAM usage, get a 390(x) 

[don_svetlio]

GTA V, Skyrim, Shadow of Mordor and a few more.

[Spar10]

Only two things that concerns me about 390x is power consumption and driver support. Are my electricity bills gonna shoot up really high?

[Ihaveswag]

Assassin's Creed Unity

that game is such a bad pc port, I wouldnt recommend buying it if you wanna play on ultra, when I turn it on ultra + 4x TXAA with gtx 970 1080p I get around 35 FPS, the gtx 980 gets about 45FPS and the gtx 980 ti 55-60FPS

[stconquest]

Only two things that concerns me about 390x is power consumption and driver support. Are my electricity bills gonna shoot up really high?

 

Don't Maxwell cards (GTX 9XX) have a big issue with DX12?  Thinking a year down the road.

[Aytex]

Only two things that concerns me about 390x is power consumption and driver support. Are my electricity bills gonna shoot up really high?

if you get a good PSU then no

[App4that]

Only two things that concerns me about 390x is power consumption and driver support. Are my electricity bills gonna shoot up really high?

No, the difference is around ten bucksUS a year

[don_svetlio]

Only two things that concerns me about 390x is power consumption and driver support. Are my electricity bills gonna shoot up really high?

390X consumes only 60W more than a 980 but us only slightly slower than a 980 - any 550W PSU from a decent OEM is fine

Electricity bills don't get affected by GPUs that much - your heater uses from 1 000W to 3 000W

An average AC uses 1 500W. 60W is nothing

Drivers are fine. Have been for a long time. The horror stories are used to scare people nowadays but are no longer really applicable.

[Spar10]

Corsair vs650 enough for 390x? I am gonna pair it with i5 4590

[don_svetlio]

Forgot to mention - that is load power consumption. Idle is not the same, if not better thanks to AMD's Zero Core. Most PCs spend 75% of the time idling

[don_svetlio]

Corsair vs650 enough for 390x? I am gonna pair it with i5 4590

Corsair VS are the lowest of the low quality PSUs - replace immediately. Not even a 960 is fine on that

[App4that]

I did see benchmarks affected by the last driver. Only Firestrike though, made it unusable. I just switched to Valley and was fine.

[chamath]

Are there any games today which consumes more than 4gigs of vram at 1080p ultra settings? What about 1 or 2 years down the line?

 

Shadow of mordor and GTA 5. But those are exceptions. For 1080P it is recommended to have at least 2GB card for now.

 

Assuming you are going to buy a graphic card, if you are considering to keep GPU for another two years, buy R9 390 or GTX 970. 

[Spar10]

Corsair VS are the lowest of the low quality PSUs - replace immediately. Not even a 960 is fine on that

Can you recommend a good budget psu around 650watts?