Again.. I feel like I have hard time understanding the VRAM usage here..
Probably because you listened to all the bad reviewers and nVidia nuts who were going around demanding that you'd never need more than 4GB VRAM and that the 3.5GB issue on 970s was never going to be a problem.
Man that was a terrible time period. Every idiot was out in force professing this stupidity. VRAM requirements from games always go up regardless of the resolution. They profess this lunacy of "X amount of VRAM being enough for Y Resolution" almost every year now but last year was just so bad because no one with 970s wanted to admit nVidia had them over a barrel.
Now here we are, as I said, within a year, games pushing past 4GB at 1080 or under resolutions. The more complex games get, the more things need to be loaded into VRAM. You can tune it as best you can if you care to, but if not, just make it messy and dump stuff into VRAM. Especially games put on console that have sloppy ports for PC. Exactly why I couldn't go back to nVidia and returned to AMD with my 390. If consoles are shipping with 8GB, then games will be pushing past 6GB before long.
