NVIDIA RTX 2070 Modded to Support 16GB Memory

[FreedomEclipse]

Funny how Tomsguide are advocating people do this mod despite it not being 100% stable

 

[r9]

People love their GBs even though won't change a damn thing.
When you run a game that actually requires 16GB vram it will require something that's twice as fast as 2070 simple as that.
So the 16GB won't future proof anything.
I would gladly buy 6800 8GB if was $100 cheaper than the 16G version.
But AMD playing the game right dump more vram and people are fine buying slower cards as long it makes their epeen grows with that 16GB vram.

 

[Tomorrow]

People love their GBs even though won't change a damn thing.
When you run a game that actually requires 16GB vram it will require something that's twice as fast as 2070 simple as that.
So the 16GB won't future proof anything.
I would gladly buy 6800 8GB if was $100 cheaper than the 16G version.
But AMD playing the game right dump more vram and people are fine buying slower cards as long it makes their epeen grows with that 16GB vram.

That's what the 6700XT will be for. 12GB for less. Sure no game requires 16GB now. The correct question is how many games benefit from over 8GB?
Plus very few people run only the game at any one time. I for example run a web rowser in the background and than can easily utilize 2GB along with Windows itself. Add to that a game on Ultra settings and suddenly 8GB requires closing of processes or lowering settings in game.

 

[r9]

That's what the 6700XT will be for. 12GB for less. Sure no game requires 16GB now. The correct question is how many games benefit from over 8GB?
Plus very few people run only the game at any one time. I for example run a web rowser in the background and than can easily utilize 2GB along with Windows itself. Add to that a game on Ultra settings and suddenly 8GB requires closing of processes or lowering settings in game.

You might be confusing vram with ram here.

 

[Tomorrow]

You might be confusing vram with ram here.

Im not. People are stuck in the past too much. Wake up and smell the progress. Games are not the only things that use VRAM anymore. 1-3GB for web browser and windows is pretty common usage. Sure there are ways to minimize that by using a basic theme and perhaps another browser.

 

[r9]

Im not. People are stuck in the past too much. Wake up and smell the progress. Games are not the only things that use VRAM anymore. 1-3GB for web browser and windows is pretty common usage. Sure there are ways to minimize that by using a basic theme and perhaps another browser.

I'm pretty sure any game engine is pretty smart to clear the vram while the game is running.

 

[Vayra86]

I'm pretty sure any game engine is pretty smart to clear the vram while the game is running.

What? No. If other applications use the VRAM they use it. There is going to be more going over the bus with possible perf impact. The game engine manages the game within available resources.

Keeping stuff in cache or memory allows you to alt tab into something else without suffering hiccups.

 

[r9]

What? No. If other applications use the VRAM they use it. There is going to be more going over the bus with possible perf impact. The game engine manages the game within available resources.

Keeping stuff in cache or memory allows you to alt tab into something else without suffering hiccups.

"Keeping stuff in cache or memory allows you to alt tab into something else without suffering hiccups."
Yeah until the game engine needs it and then I'm sure can clear it, so the "alt tabbing might be compromised not he game imo.
It would be great if @W1zzard can chime in.

 

[Vayra86]

"Keeping stuff in cache or memory allows you to alt tab into something else without suffering hiccups."
Yeah until the game engine needs it and then I'm sure can clear it, so the "alt tabbing might be compromised not he game imo.
It would be great if @W1zzard can chime in.

Lots of factors are of influence but yes I would agree with your assumption there in the most basic sense.

But: people run multi monitor, people run borderless fullscreen... in those situations the VRAM will likely remain allocated. We can easily test this, to be fair. The idea of a background application however has certainly changed over the years and especially since Windows 10. Multitasking is much more of a thing now than it used to be, and especially a browser can have a massive footprint.

 

[W1zzard]

Residency - Win32 apps

An object is considered to be resident when it is accessible by the GPU.

docs.microsoft.com

 

[kachan64]

Wait what about the clock speed? Isn't there a reason why they have such a limit on the GBs?
Also, I would not trust Ali for parts like this as seems to be fake.

 

[Sir Alex Ice]

How would you feel about 2070 costing $100 more?

Would have liked to have the option to pay actually 50$ more for double the memory.