Beavermatic
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- Oct 24, 2006
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I had 980's when they were first released, but kept having VRAM issues in some games at 4k with antialiasing, so I bought a pair of NVidia Titan X's on launch day. That 12GB vram really smoothed things out.
I was really hoping to see Titan-grade pascal card with significantly more than 8GB of vram, as I'd love to get a couple 1080's (have had the cash burning a hole in my pocket for a while now), but I've already got a few games that report they use near 10GB+ of vram (GTA V being one), and while I know GDDR5X on the 1080 is faster than the GDDR5 on the Titan X, 8gb of vram is still a 8gb buffer, and games that use more than 8gb will start having stutter/drops again.
I guess the current trade off is slightly less performance on the Titan X, but more capable in the VRAM buffer for those of us trying to do 4x AA at 4k resolutions, lol. I really think the once the benchmarks come out, we will see some slight gain over the 980ti/Titan X maxwells in overall fps, but serious issues with the 1080 once the vram limit is maxed (like what the 980/980ti & Fiji 4GB HBM chips experience). To me, 8GB is the absolute bare minimum to even do 4k with all details maxed and minimal AA (if any).
Wonder how long until they release a 12 or 16GB RAM variant of pascal for commercial market?
I was really hoping to see Titan-grade pascal card with significantly more than 8GB of vram, as I'd love to get a couple 1080's (have had the cash burning a hole in my pocket for a while now), but I've already got a few games that report they use near 10GB+ of vram (GTA V being one), and while I know GDDR5X on the 1080 is faster than the GDDR5 on the Titan X, 8gb of vram is still a 8gb buffer, and games that use more than 8gb will start having stutter/drops again.
I guess the current trade off is slightly less performance on the Titan X, but more capable in the VRAM buffer for those of us trying to do 4x AA at 4k resolutions, lol. I really think the once the benchmarks come out, we will see some slight gain over the 980ti/Titan X maxwells in overall fps, but serious issues with the 1080 once the vram limit is maxed (like what the 980/980ti & Fiji 4GB HBM chips experience). To me, 8GB is the absolute bare minimum to even do 4k with all details maxed and minimal AA (if any).
Wonder how long until they release a 12 or 16GB RAM variant of pascal for commercial market?
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