Why do I need 8gb?

[zinton]

Hey guys, I'm in the market to upgrade from my 750ti and I was eying out the rx 480 as it's in my price range at $200. But that's for 4 gb version the 8gb is at $250 which at that point I could get a 1060.

So my question is, is there any value to 4gb of vram vs 8gb? Like if I wanted to VR game or just playing at 1080p?

Thanks for the help!

 

(I know im going to have to wait a bit for the cards to come in stock)

[EarthboundHero]

From my personal experience with my 390, there are quite a few games, even at 1080P that use over 4GB of VRAM.

[DominicNikon]

3 minutes ago, EarthboundHero said:

From my personal experience with my 390, there are quite a few games, even at 1080P that use over 4GB of VRAM.

 

GTA V uses 3.7gb/4gb on my GTX 980

[ctaylor17]

My recommendation would be to get the GTX 1060. The more powerful 1060 will perform better than the 480 even though it has more vram. 

[zinton]

3 minutes ago, EarthboundHero said:

From my personal experience with my 390, there are quite a few games, even at 1080P that use over 4GB of VRAM.

So does it create a bottleneck reducing the achievable performance of the card? 

[DisconnectedYT]

3 minutes ago, zinton said:

Hey guys, I'm in the market to upgrade from my 750ti and I was eying out the rx 480 as it's in my price range at $200. But that's for 4 gb version the 8gb is at $250 which at that point I could get a 1060.

So my question is, is there any value to 4gb of vram vs 8gb? Like if I wanted to VR game or just playing at 1080p?

Thanks for the help!

 

(I know im going to have to wait a bit for the cards to come in stock)

BF1 uses 6GB of ram so it worth getting the better version of the RX480, also the GTX1060 only has 6GB of ram (which is enough for most games now but not BF1), and the GTX1060 is also slower then the RX480 in VR, DX12 and the RX has Vulcan support, in other words the RX480 has more features and you can in the future buy two of them and equal a 1080 OR if you dont have enough the GTX1060 is a very good option for now, maybe not in the future though as you cant put two of them together!

[ctaylor17]

Just now, ctaylor17 said:

My recommendation would be to get the GTX 1060. The more powerful 1060 will perform better than the 480 even though it has more vram. 

The 1060 has 6gb of vram 

[zinton]

Just now, ctaylor17 said:

My recommendation would be to get the GTX 1060. The more powerful 1060 will perform better than the 480 even though it has more vram. 

What would you say at the 200 dollar price point?

[DisconnectedYT]

1 minute ago, zinton said:

What would you say at the 200 dollar price point?

XFX RX480 8GB OC or Sapphire Nitro RX480 8GB OC

And on the cheap side, Asus GTX1060 Turbo.

[EarthboundHero]

1 minute ago, DominicNikon said:

 

GTA V uses 3.7gb/4gb on my GTX 980

Fantastic sample size you got there. 

Just now, zinton said:

So does it create a bottleneck reducing the achievable performance of the card? 

It can, if you run out of VRAM your PC will use your page memory. This will introduce stuttering into the game.

[ctaylor17]

At the $200 price point the 480 would be better just there isn't another current generation card for $200. 

[adams]

just get the 1060

 

 

[i_build_nanosuits]

9 minutes ago, zinton said:

the 8gb is at $250 which at that point I could get a 1060.

yeah, do that...get a 1060, it's better.

[DisconnectedYT]

4 minutes ago, adams said:

just get the 1060

 

 

The GTX1060 is better at DX11 though it lacks power in the Vram department and uses all the Vram in BF1, it is also slower at DX12 and doesnt support SLI/CF or Vulcan like the RX480 does so if it money thats the problem then yes it is good but if not and you can afford the extra few $ then the RX480 is the better option!

[Techicolors]

i think games will consume as much VRAM as it can, especially at higher resolutions and higher textures. with my 1070, i have ROTTR with ultra textures running at 1440p, and it consumes about 6.5 to 7gb of vram. and in mirror's edge catalyst, running higher than high textures at 1440p will consume just as much vram. meanwhile games like Witcher 3 consume less than 3.5gb of vram 

[adams]

1 minute ago, DisconnectedYT said:

The GTX1060 is better at DX11 though it lacks power in the Vram department and uses all the Vram in BF1, it is also slower at DX12 and doesnt support SLI/CF or Vulcan like the RX480 does so if it money thats the problem then yes it is good but if not and you can afford the extra few $ then the RX480 is the better option!

good point 

[DisconnectedYT]

Just now, adams said:

good point 

Wait i watched that video ubove and the RX480 is cheaper!? WHAT?

Then DAMN buy the RX480!

[i_build_nanosuits]

2 minutes ago, DisconnectedYT said:

The GTX1060 is better at DX11 though it lacks power in the Vram department and uses all the Vram in BF1, it is also slower at DX12 and doesnt support SLI/CF or Vulcan like the RX480 does so if it money thats the problem then yes it is good but if not and you can afford the extra few $ then the RX480 is the better option!

i strongly disagree...go watch reviews even in DX12 the GTX 1060 is faster except in hitman which is an AMD game notorious to run bad on nvidia hardware...and those reviews don't even have the cards overclocked...the GTX 1060 has a lot of overclocking headroom and the RX 480 doesn't making it even faster...and in DX11 which is roughly 99.9% of the games out there and probably 95%+ of the games that are going to come out in the next two years the GTX 1060 AT STOCK just slam the RX 480 against the wall in EVERY GAMES.

[DisconnectedYT]

Just now, i_build_nanosuits said:

i strongly disagree...go watch reviews even in DX12 the GTX 1060 is faster except in hitman which is an AMD game notorious to run bad on nvidia hardware...and those reviews don't even have the cards overclocked...the GTX 1060 has a lot of overclocking headroom and the RX 480 doesn't making it even faster...and in DX11 which is roughly 99.9% of the games out there and probably 95%+ of the games that are going to come out in the next two years the GTX 1060 AT STOCK just slam the RX 480 against the wall in EVERY GAMES.

is 75FPS on the RX480 and 79FPS on the GTX1060 SSC slaming in the wall on DAMN WITCHER 3!

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, DisconnectedYT said:

is 75FPS on the RX480 and 79FPS on the GTX1060 SSC slaming in the wall on DAMN WITCHER 3!

NOT OVERCLOCKED? right...yeah...right...now who's the fanboy you said?

[LabRat]

either ride your 750 into the dirt while you save more money or buy the 4gig 480........... or buy the new titan. i hear it's the gas......... mannnnnnnnnnnn......................

[DisconnectedYT]

2 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

NOT OVERCLOCKED? right...yeah...right...now who's the fanboy you said?

No thats with the XFX RX480 8GB OC vs Stock GTX1060 SSC

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just now, DisconnectedYT said:

No thats with the XFX RX480 8GB OC vs Stock GTX1060 SSC

yeah...overclock that 1060 and look at it rip.

 

[LabRat]

go over to digitallfoundry and look at the last 2 videos with the 480/1060/470/970.......... this is at 1440p.https://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalFoundry/videos

 

[handymanshandle]

1 hour ago, ctaylor17 said:

My recommendation would be to get the GTX 1060. The more powerful 1060 will perform better than the 480 even though it has more vram. 

Meh, I think the RX 480 will be the better buy once AMD works out the kinks in the supply line.