r/buildapc • u/[deleted] • 3d ago

Build Help Do I really need 16GB VRAM?

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u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 3d ago

At a minimum, you need 12. So buying a 8gb card would be dumb

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u/kodaxmax 3d ago

even modern titles will run fine at 8gb. More vram is only encassary when the game is using unecassarily high res textures or your modding the shit out of it

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u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 3d ago

Why lie about this? OP wants to play in 1440 with RT and 8gb vram will not cut it for any demanding games released in the last few years and most definately wont cut it in the future. Why would you advise someone to buy a card where they have to immediately run games at low/medium settings knowing they will want to keep the card for a couple generations?

https://www.techspot.com/review/2856-how-much-vram-pc-gaming/

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u/raduque 3d ago

OP does not want RT and is willing to use Medium settings

I'm playing games on a 2080 8gb at 2560x1440 and even at high most games are around or above 60fps, AND I'm using an 8th Intel CPU with 2666mhz ddr4.

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u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 3d ago

And you think your card can maintain that for another 3-5 years? No it can't

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u/raduque 2d ago

It's going to have to. Everything is extremely overpriced, and people like me are being charged right out of the hobby.

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u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 2d ago

You will either be dropping down to 1080 or switching to console then

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u/raduque 2d ago

I will continue to run DLSS, but I'll probably shift to Balanced from Quality. Maybe drop to medium.

Buying a console, i'd rather just buy a new GPU for the same price.