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BTW, the PS4 version runs at 1080p60 during gameplay (but drops to 30 fps during menus, cutscenes, and fatalities).
As you can see, it's not very demanding CPU wise.
VRAM problem. GTX Titan 6GB still competes favourably against GTX 970 while 780 Ti tanked.2. Kepler cards currently exhibit awful performance compared to Maxwell at 4K.
Maybe, but I dont think many people would use those 960 and below cards for 4K, no matter how much vram they have.
Why would it drop to 30fps in menus?
Maybe, but I dont think many people would use those 960 and below cards for 4K, no matter how much vram they have.
Quite right, I dont think anyone with a 2GB VRAM card would expect to use it for 4k
2GB cards shouldn't turn on any MSAA at all...2GB of VRAM is insufficient already at 1440P. No one suggested using 2GB cards for 4K.
I am actually very surprised Mortal Kombat X punishes 2GB cards so much because the graphics aren't spectacular and the game was in development for a long time. It's not exactly cutting edge.
2GB is pretty much the end of the line in 2015 and onward for newer games, even at 1080P. It's only going to get worse.
GTA V, MK X, Wolfenstein NWO, AC Unity, Shadow of Mordor, Dead Rising 3 -- all these games were in development before PS4/XB1 came out and they are already crushing 2GB of VRAM limits. I feel that once we get towards the mid-cycle of PS4/XB1 consoles in late 2016 to mid-2017, VRAM requirements will really skyrocket to 4GB becoming mainstream. I suppose it can already be argued that 4GB has entered the mainstream in 2015 with 960 4GB and R9 290 4GB at the $240-250 price points.
2. Kepler cards currently exhibit awful performance compared to Maxwell at 4K.
1. On the heels of GTA V that hammered performance on 2GB cards, we have yet another game where 2GB of VRAM results in gigantic performance hit in resolutions > 1200p.
So...in other words, 2 GB is still perfectly fine for 1080p?
Batman AK also recommends 3GB.
http://techreport.com/news/28163/arkham-knight-requires-at-least-2gb-of-graphics-memory
RS, your list looks good with the exception of Dragon Age. In this game a single 680/770 will run out of grunt before it can use all the Vram. I'm going to agree with you that 2gb cards are starting to suffer without reducing texture quality. (you can add GTA 5 to your list as well.
BTW, the PS4 version runs at 1080p60 during gameplay (but drops to 30 fps during menus, cutscenes, and fatalities).
As you can see, it's not very demanding CPU wise.
Why are there no AMD cards run at 4K?