ASUS Lists RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB, RTX 3060 12 GB Graphics Cards

[Caring1]

It's panic buying, like how they do when a stock becomes too popular.
Just keep your head on straight, know the real value of the item and be patient, you should be fine(well, not *you*, but you get the idea).

But FOMO will cause people to explode through stress, and their E-peen will shrink and fall off.

 

[Sunny and 75]

based on what ? Marketing ?

Well, for instance, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War uses roughly 15 GB VRAM with official HD texture pack installed. And that's not even 4K. Trust me, 10 GB VRAM may be enough for now but late 2021 and beyond not so much.
Considering you've spent nearly $1200 on a new graphics card, you'd want it to have at least 12 GB VRAM.

A quick look around the web and you'll see countless leaks about a 16 GB variant of the RTX 3080 Mobile which Nvidia is going to unveil alongside other RTX 30 mobile GPUs on January 12, two days from now.

Now 3080 Ti is what interests me the most, though I fear the price might be too high in these times. But I got a feeling things will settle down a bit later in 2H 2021, fingers crossed!

 

[Max(IT)]

Allocated.
It's there in the TPU review of Cyberpunk 2077. They did a special review of it because of the game's popularity.


It's panic buying, like how they do when a stock becomes too popular.
Just keep your head on straight, know the real value of the item and be patient, you should be fine(well, not *you*, but you get the idea).

Allocated is different from used.
If you test the SAME game on a 24 Gb 3090 it would allocate more VRAM than the same exact settings on a 10 Gb 3080.

Well done first scam the idiots they spend 500+++$ for a 8/10GB 3070/80.

After that, they bring the normal Cards
Never buy on a release day

Reported for name calling.

Another frustrated that can’t afford a 3080...
release date was back in September and we are in January. We are not on release day Anymore.

Well, for instance, Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War uses roughly 15 GB VRAM with official HD texture pack installed. And that's not even 4K. Trust me, 10 GB VRAM may be enough for now but late 2021 and beyond not so much.
Considering you've spent nearly $1200 on a new graphics card, you'd want it to have at least 12 GB VRAM.

A quick look around the web and you'll see countless leaks about a 16 GB variant of the RTX 3080 Mobile which Nvidia is going to unveil alongside other RTX 30 mobile GPUs on January 12, two days from now.

Now 3080 Ti is what interests me the most, though I fear the price might be too high in these times. But I got a feeling things will settle down a bit later in 2H 2021, fingers crossed!

I’m sorry but I can’t believe you just on your words.
Do you have any actual proof about a game needing more than 10 Gb of VRAM ?

The fact that Nvidia is going to release 12/16/20 Gb cards in the next future is more driven by marketing than technical needs...

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not happy about Nvidia greediness releasing 8/10 Gb VRAM cards at the time (and I opened a quite long thread about that some months ago), but that is different from say that 10 Gb are not enough.

 

[THU31]

I do not believe in future proofing anymore. Tried that a few times and it never worked out.

By the time you need more than 10 GiB, there will be much faster cards on the market.
And most games just use the VRAM as a cache. They do not need all that data. And with DirectStorage coming (this year?), this will be even less important.

You should buy what is best for current games in your price range. Then upgrade in a year or two, selling your old components. You will not have to spend much, and you will always have good performance.

 

[cst1992]

I really feel for the guys who got a 3090 for the VRAM to play games.
I mean look, the TITAN card had 6GB and it's only now that it's becoming a constraint, even though the GPU itself is not powerful enough for most modern games. Hell, I think my 970 is faster than it(atleast, trades blows).
12, or even 10 GB should be more than enough VRAM for a long time; long enough for the cards to last anyway.

 

[Sunny and 75]

normal Cards

Normal cards rolling in. Here's the first one:

NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 3060, $330, 12 GB of GDDR6

NVIDIA today announced that it is bringing the NVIDIA Ampere architecture to millions more PC gamers with the new GeForce RTX 3060 GPU. With its efficient, high-performance architecture and the second generation of NVIDIA RTX, the RTX 3060 brings amazing hardware raytracing capabilities and...

www.techpowerup.com

That's a start for sure. Now two other cards remain, the 20 GB 3080 Ti and the 16 GB 3070 Ti (actually this one may never end up being released, well one can only hope).