Don’t have a gaming pc anymore so I use the performance option for my Mac mini and it has worked great. While I won’t exceed 100 hours a month anymore I still don’t agree with a greedy business model like this it’s just ridiculous.

I play at 3440x1440, 16GB VRAM should be enough for a while at least which was the main reason in getting the 4070Ti Super over a normal 4070 Super for that extra 4GB frame buffer.

In their eyes, they gave you enough Vram in the 5080 to last 2+ years or the launch of the 6000s....just don't add any mods. Now, if you like adding a load of 4k mods, there is always the 5090...right. This is why I am keeping my 4090 and waiting for the 6000s. DLSS 4 really sank the 5000s because games that you ran 4k quality with DLSS 3, you can now run at balanced, and they even look better. Better looks and FPS, which adds more to the reason for keeping your 4090 and using your money on other parts, or start saving for that $5000 RTX 6090 lol

One insane studio pushing some major bs likely bankrolled by Nvidia is not an indicator of anything... Hot take: 8gb is still just fine... Not great but fine... 16gb is perfect.

5070ti is the most bang for buck that will future proof you for a good few years

Your concern is very valid! They can't/wont future proof their cards so people will keep upgrading or go for their 5090. Our choices sux this gen

I bought a metaquest 3 and in DCS world I see vram come close to 16GB in HWinfo; I think my background tasks might be eating more vram then they should, but it's just web browser and discord, with something priced as high as 5080 I would expect more than 16GB; also I have 7800xt, so if I had more vram maybe it would use more. Does anyone know if it's active use or allocation? The number changes a lot so I suspect it's not allocating what it doesn't need

I'll be going for the 5080 on launch, fingers have done their exercises ready to snag a fe model. idk if they're gonna redirect to scan this time but I'm signed in and got details saved just in case. good luck everyone

its ok not everyone can afford cards with extra vram so make games that plqay play on our systems and we stop buying simple

Hmm, I think 16 is fine. I like that game devs are pushing the boundaries. when Crysis came out there weren't any cards that could reasonably play it at Extreme settings. The idea that a game comes out and requires you to have the absolute best card available to play at the absolute highest settings is reasonable, so long as the slightly lower settings aren't bad. And imo in Indiana Jones even the lower settings look incredibly good.

I wanna buy it for 1440p ultrawide high refresh gaming, 16 gig should be enough. Even 4k with DLSS performance mode, which is great now, will work fine.

or just use ALT + R on nvidia cards or CTRL+ALT+O on amd cards :)

I play most games at 4k with my 6800xt max settings and it uses 15gb of 16 GB of vram and my ram is using 20 out of 32 gigs it's crazy how games use so much I'll be getting a 5080 I'm in uk as well going to be expensive I have 1200 ready for it but I will be a massive upgrade for me.

Well if you wanna game at 4K Ultra with all the whistles and bells running and not compromise on the settings , you're going to have to suck down reality that 16G aint gonna cut the mustard going forward. You know it's not a "cheap" resolution to play at . If you want to play 4K Ultra your going to have to dig deep and pay for the cards that will allow you to do that. I have a 16Gig card but game at 1440p ultra and I am willing to turn down the settings when the need arises but as I have never exceeded using 8 to 10 Gigs of of Vram in any game I have played I think I will be ok for a good while longer.

Well that explains why my pc keep crashing 😂😂

What should i do? get the 5090 lower the power to 70% but then i still need to buy air-conditioning for my apartment. no thank you, i will just eat the sour apple of 16gb vram.

There is literally no reason for them to have a monthly cap when cheaper streaming services like boosteroid exist for cheaper, it's not like they are hurting for money. So basically I'll continue to use it until the end of 2025, and then after that hopefully I'll have enough money to actually buy a PC with a 4080 or better graphics card before 2025 is over.

If I am gaming on max setting with 3440 x 1440 monitor, would 16GB enough? If not, I might just get a 7900 XT

Huh. I saw 315w in FurMark with the single pigtail on my 6800xt Red Devil. I hope that cable doesn't become a liquid.

I agree with you, 1200+ bucks for a 16GB card is absurd in 2025. It would've probably been better to stick to GDDR6X and give it 24GB, though I know nothing about graphic cards manufacturing, so there's a chance that wouldn't be possible for some reason unbeknownst to me. Though in fairness, not even a 4090 or 5090 will run those games properly with path tracing, native 4k. You're expected to use DLSS with that kind of settings, which is absolutely fine to me. Now the question is, does it still crash if you have DLSS enabled? If so, then that's a big issue... But even if it doesn't, most people spending that kind of money on a GPU expect it to last at least 2 generations, so 16GB is already a struggle in 2025, can't imagine it will be doing very well in ~2029... Hope you're feeling better!

I use this for games that don't require snap loading times, like RTS and puzzle games, and RPGs. Anything FPS...yeah local NVME is probably best but NAS works fine for just about everything else.

its easy don't buy a gpu, u want vram get a 7900xt or xtx u want a car go buy one not a nvidea card. they will pump and dump you every chance they get to force u onto there latest platform. (EG. frame gen and not giving support to idk older gen cards that with free software you can do it easily)

Thx, but if i put x8 GPU in x16 slot? Can it be slowed down? I mean, SO much slowed?

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I get it. I too am going back and forth. I want the 5090 but that price is just a lot. Yes i can buy it... but will I get the value out of it? I really need to see those 5080 reviews. I also wish they bumped the 5080 up to 24gb vram... disappointed they did not.

Hey everyone, it's hard to know what card to get, I'd appreciate any thoughts people have :) I had a heavy cold when shooting this video, but hopefully I didn't sound too bad/out of it lol. Thanks for watching.

I plan to get a used RTX 4070 Super until a 5080ti with 24gb or more of vram comes out. Running a 1440p monitor my current 16gb vram (laptop) GPU rarely goes above 11-12gb's of used VRAM whilst gaming. I do plan to switch to a 4K display and with that I can see myself needing more than the 16gb's of vram I currently have.

It's insane most ppl has 16GB system wide. But this crap of DLSS now make the system requirements insane to who want a native resolution and not a dynamic

You can still play latest games with 16 gb vram its still mostly enough just turn down the textures settings a little in Indiana Jones there are very few games which are exceptions where 16 gb vram will be exceeded stll not a cause for concern yet.

Across the pond Amazon has this: Sapphire 11323-02-20G Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT for $650. 20GB GDDR6. I am considering buying this and replacing my 3070ti.

I will wait for the 60 Series, still haven't exhausted my 3090ti 24 GB on the games I play. GPU are becoming like phones, where they just do a slight tweak and want another $2k for a GPU. In fact, I think 4090 is the last real GPU we say was worth buying,.all this AI stuff just seem 🤔 AI. .lol😂

I get you. 1200pounds is too expensive for only 16GB. (still I wish I had 16GB of VRam instead of just 8)

Not that big of a deal to be honest. If i run out of time, i can just hop on xbox or still use my gaming laptop with lower settings. As well as gives me a reason to boot up the games that aren't on GFN.

Regardless of which game settings you'd like to play at, your budget is the deciding factor. My advice is to buy the best GPU you can afford within your budget. I'll wait for reviews of the 5080/5070 before I decide to upgrade.

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For me 16 gigs will be fine. I'm planning to upgrade from a 3080 to a 5080 for the main purpose of faster render times in blender since the jump from 30 to 40 series was really good for blender render times. I held off on getting a 4080 because I was gaming more than animating in blender but now it's the opposite. Also when I game, I'm a competitive gamer at heart so I drop all settings to low and I rarely play the newest titles

Better if you can do it practically

Useless and doesnt even work.

What if my mobo has 1 pcie x16 slot and 1 pcie x1 slot

4.0 x4 pcie (ssd/graphic card) can get slowed on a psie 4.0 x16 slot?

The PSU is only so efficient at powering your PC without pulling more then it needs for the job, that extra power pull is just wasted as heat. Seen an example of a non 80+ wasting 100w extra at the wall when tested. I was hoping to find something about the cost of a gold vs platinum PSU and if it pays for itself in savings over time.

What if I have 2 cables, one on its own and another woth the pigtail thing, on the 4080 adapter will it affect performance?

i upgraded abotu 2 yrs ago.. i learned a lot the hard way. there are a TON of cheap 10gb switches on amazon from unknown chineese companies.. they work for small transfers.. but overheat and shut down or throttle when they get hot.. so they were pretty much useless for me because I transfer huge files and huge amounts of data regularly. i went with 2 used 5 port netgear switches off amazon. they work far far better than the cheap ones and are able to sustain 10gb transfer rates for terrabytes worth of data. the ubiquti 5port switch is really nice too. cables matter.. especially for long distances. i had to essentially wire my house twice. 1st time I used cheap cat 6e cable. short runs did fine.. long runs with same cable got drastically slower speeds.. replaced longer runs with better quality cable, no issues at all now. Cards matter too. cheap cards get hot and throttle. do your research.. it can be done pretty economically especially if you don't mind buying used equipment. as a photographer that transfers large amounts of data to and from a nas.. and has a large data set that needs to be backed up. .the time saved is drastic. (backing up photos from a 6 music festival(~8tb) the difference is minutes to hours.

I thought that people that play for free also get the 100 hours cap but i just recently found out that we only get 3 hours every 90 days....

"How _loud_ is it?" "WHAT?!" "LOUD! Is it LOUD?" "HUH?!" "IS! IT! *_LOUD?!"_* "No, thanks! I already ate!"

I'm running a 3090 off the single cable, regularly pulling 330-340 watts with no issues.

Don't be cheap; go buy a decent CableMod C-Series Pro ModMesh 12VHPWR cable. I personally would not use any of the 12VHPWR cables that come with your GPU or PSU.

Why not just put a magnetic solid sheet on the top of your computer that isn't always on?