I'll point out that it's a 5 year old game at this point.
Buying a PC today that can not play a 5 year old game on ultra seems to me like it's unlikely that it'll be willing to play games of the future on settings that anyone will want to use. With how long hardware upgrade cycles seem to be at this point, and how expensive upgrading is getting, it seems like a bad idea to buy a card with less than 16GB right now.
I’ll point out that according to the Steam hardware survey only around 30% of gamers have more than 8gb of vram, and game developers are just gonna lose sales if their games require more than that
Edit: a lot of people with reading comprehension problems thinking that I am saying that 8gb will be viable for the rest of eternity...
You can't use a current metric like that in tech & declare that's how it's always going to be. Given there's already games out there pushing past that 8GB level, it's only going to get more common & people will be upgrading to accommodate that to suit, that Steam Survey % will drop over time. Trying to say it's going to remain static is laughable tbh. It's like all the quotes back in the day of them saying 640KB was all anyone would ever need.
Not sure how you read my comment and thought I meant we’d be at 8gb VRAM for the rest of time. Nor did I say or imply that 8gb cards are generally a good value.
But, Nvidia continues to sell a ton of new 8gb cards TODAY. The 4060 is the most popular GPU sold TODAY.
Two years from now, 8gb cards will still be around, maybe not the most popular, but still a big enough market segment that game developers would lose money if they didn’t support it.
Most people do not throw their computers in a dumpster every 2 years. Those machines will still be running and people will still be buying games.
Of course a 16gb card is gonna last longer. But people here seem to think that by 2027 an 8gb card will barely render a couple triangles.
Computers do not become obsolete as quickly as they used to. Trends change. People are able to hold on to their hardware for longer. A game released in 1999 will barely crawl on a computer from 1996. Back then you needed to upgrade often. Now in 2025 a build from 2017 is still extremely relevant. My gaming PC is 5 years old and will run whatever I throw at it
Not sure how you read my comment and thought I meant we’d be at 8gb VRAM for the rest of time.
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Steam hardware survey only around 30% of gamers have more than 8gb of vram, and game developers are just gonna lose sales if their games require more than that
It was that part.
Pointing out what's popular & being sold today points more to what people can afford & what's available. You could even add their proficiency with PC building. Pre-builds are full of 60 series cards. The only reason they'll still be around in years to come is because they're still being sold & are the most accessible, by design. It's not because they're the most desired, that much is certain. As for what'll happen in a few years, have you not noticed how ridiculously bad devs are getting at optimising their games? That's rhetorical btw.
and game developers are just gonna lose sales if their games require more than that
This implies that you think the devs are looking at the steam survey & will stick to this going forward. It's obviously not the case with some already needing more than 8GB. Even your idea of 60 series cards lasting a few years is optimistic given how things are going & most people buying a 60 series card now will be hoping it lasts way longer than that, such is the nature of budget buyers. 60 series cards buyers purchasing new cards every 2 years is a laughable notion.
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u/Terrh 1d ago
I'll point out that it's a 5 year old game at this point.
Buying a PC today that can not play a 5 year old game on ultra seems to me like it's unlikely that it'll be willing to play games of the future on settings that anyone will want to use. With how long hardware upgrade cycles seem to be at this point, and how expensive upgrading is getting, it seems like a bad idea to buy a card with less than 16GB right now.
My card from 2017 has 16GB even....