Games that require more 24 VRAM...

[Sunny and 75]

Games generally are developed for consoles first then get ported to PC, so that's why 16GB VRAM will be more than enough for the time being.

And that is until PS6 comes out. It will be interesting to see if SONY ships the PS6 with 24GB or 32GB configuration. Only time will tell.

 

[soPvN]

Using 8K to test for “stable performance” is… a take.
And I somehow doubt that the new flagships will receive 32 gigs of VRAM because holy shit, talk about unnecessary. And if the rumors are correct and we are moving to GDDR7, that would also be eyewateringly expensive both to produce and, obviously, buy.

Only tagging this because it didn't age well

 

[Onasi]

Only tagging this because it didn't age well

I didn’t really have 5090 as a 2000 dollar professional card for AI workloads on my bingo card a year ago, no. Surprisingly, I don’t possess a crystal ball to tell the future. It technically aged just fine - it IS eyewateringly expensive and it IS completely unnecessary FOR GAMES. So I would say that I came out ahead decently well in my predictions.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I didn’t really have 5090 as a 2000 dollar professional card for AI workloads on my bingo card a year ago, no. Surprisingly, I don’t possess a crystal ball to tell the future. It technically aged just fine - it IS eyewateringly expensive and it IS completely unnecessary FOR GAMES. So I would say that I came out ahead decently well in my predictions.

I'll back you up on that point. Your original comment seems to have aged well. You may have misjudged makers producing 32GB cards, but the need for them for anything other than high-end, high-level compute is still spot on.

 

[harm9963]

The most I seen with my 4090 ,is 22GB , that was Harry Potter , but since then more and more of games are up there .

 

[SPDIF]

If this trend continue, gaming will soon be only for rich people on PC. Then i think it's better to spend your money on a PS5 or so... Uses less energy, no burning wires, no 1000W Power Supply, no excessive cooling method, less noise, less energy cost's. And with the money left over go on vacation with your wife and children.

 

[Dragam1337]

If this trend continue, gaming will soon be only for rich people on PC. Then i think it's better to spend your money on a PS5 or so... Uses less energy, no burning wires, no 1000W Power Supply, no excessive cooling method, less noise. And with the money left over go on vacation with your wife and children.

The bar being moved so much for what you can expect to get for 500 usd is deffo an issue. Used to get you a highend gpu, now it's getting you trash tier.

Everything costing an arm and a leg will be the death of pc gaming, cause while rich people can buy whatever hardware they want, game makers needs the masses to purchase their games for it to be profitable - not just the top 5% richest people in 'murica. Unless they are also willing to spend 1000 usd per game that is.

But the likely scenario is that the amount of pc gaming hardware being sold will decrease if current trend continues, and a big portion of pc gamers will move onto console - i know quite a few people who have done this already, as they couldn't justify spending more than 5 times as much on a gaming pc vs a ps5.

 

[SPDIF]

For a modern GPU card you almost have to sell your kidney. What's next? A 1600W Power Supply? It's really begin to come crazy these days.

 

[Dragam1337]

For a modern GPU card you almost have to sell your kidney. What's next? A 1600W Power Supply? It's really begin to come crazy these days.

1600w psu's have been a thing for a long time - even 2200w.

But i see pricing being the biggest issue.

 

[freeagent]

I agree.. this hobby is expensive, even more so these days.

But.. it has always been expensive

The good part is you don't have to upgrade every generation.

 

[Dragam1337]

I agree.. this hobby is expensive, even more so these days.

But.. it has always been expensive

The good part is you don't have to upgrade every generation.

It wasn't actually that expensive in the past. Like from the 90s and until crypto boom, prices were fairly reasonable.

Also, nvidia seems to be intent on you having to upgrade every gen with the implementation of the "great" 12pin connector... now that you don't get alot more performance every gen, they gotta give you another incentive to buy a new gpu...

 

[SPDIF]

Don't get me wrong, i like playing games on PC the most, but the prices and heat and energy... A 5090 can warm up your room with 500W, 900W in short spikes! Many people can't play a decent game because of costs, and it goes up every year...

 

[freeagent]

A 5090 can warm up your room with 500W!

Nah... I have run way more than that on older SLI systems hoping to heat my compooter room, it never works.

Maybe in the summer it would suck a bit, but my AC runs on hot days..

 

[Dragam1337]

Nah... I have run way more than that on older SLI systems hoping to heat my compooter room, it never works.

Maybe in the summer it would suck a bit, but my AC runs on hot days..

Same, ran quad sli in the past, but it does heat my place up alot. Increases temps by 5c - great in winter, less so in summer. We don't have ac here. So it will depend quite a bit on where you live, and how well isolated your buildings are.

 

[freeagent]

Same, ran quad sli in the past, but it does heat my place up alot. Increases temps by 5c - great in winter, less so in summer. We don't have ac here. So it will depend quite a bit on where you live, and how well isolated your buildings are.

Pipes and sewers are 15 feet underground so they don't freeze up here lol. My basement is 12 feet, and the part where the house sits on the foundation gets pretty frosty this time of year

 

[SPDIF]

But clearly you can see hat something has to be changed, burning cards and connectors melting, wires burning. Yes sure Expensive hobby these day's.

 

[arbiter]

unless you running 8k max settings then there is none but at that res you likely getting 12fps. Only games that really even use 16gb+ are games that use excessive vram cause that is way engine is designed to use every mb possible to start with not cause it needs it.

 

[Dragam1337]

unless you running 8k max settings then there is none but at that res you likely getting 12fps. Only games that really even use 16gb+ are games that use excessive vram cause that is way engine is designed to use every mb possible to start with not cause it needs it.

Incorrect - you can absolutely have 60+ fps at 8k with dlss .

 

[SPDIF]

Another thing that is important for me is that i don't like to put away old stuff that still works fine, i keep everything and i can't put it away. Radeon's, GTX970, GTX1060, RTX3060 and so on... All still working perfectly! I play older games with them on older rigs. And then i am happy that it still works fine when playing older games.
But that's maybe just me, i'm not so young anymore...

But anyway that's off topic.

But yeah truly expensive hobby these days and no idea where to specs later are going to. And with the new US tariffs it looks to be more expensive then ever.

 

[Dragam1337]

Another thing that is important for me is that i don't like to put away old stuff that still works fine, i keep everything and i can't put it away. Radeon's, GTX970, GTX1060, RTX3060 and so on... All still working perfectly! I play older games with them on older rigs. And then i am happy that it still works fine when playing older games.
But that's maybe just me, i'm not so young anymore...

But anyway that's off topic.

But yeah truly expensive hobby these days and no idea where to specs later are going to. And with the Trump tariffs it looks to be more expensive then ever.

I sell hardware when i buy new hardware - easy way to make it alot cheaper.

As for trump, probably not allowed to write anything as this is an american site. But suffice to say that eu needs an alternative to american hardware going forward. Thankfully europe has arm.