Is 8GB VRAM an ISSUE?

Joining in on the VRAM discussion. Is it enough anymore? Who's to blame? NVIDIA? Developers?

Let me know what YOU think in the comments below!

[hussainjaved]

Me: *upgrades from 2GB vram to 6GB*
Entire World: 8GB ram is not enough
Me: 👁👄👁

[CyberneticArgumentCreator]

Games don't get optimized -> the majority of the market with mid-tier and budget-tier rigs buy an unoptimized game, it runs poorly -> majority of market drastically reduces spending on future unoptimized games -> game developers and publishers can't sell enough copies of their unoptimized lazy console ports -> game devs and publishers forced to spend extra time making games run on all levels of hardware at acceptable fps while looking decent

This is a self-solving problem. They are testing the waters and they'll soon find out that only Harry Potter and Star Wars, the two largest IPs in entertainment history, can pull off sales to support AAA development without optimization, and even those take a large hit to player sentiment and sales (compared to a world where they were released in an optimized state). Money will drive them to invest time in optimization before release. The solution isn't for the entire planet to buy a GPU with 16+GB of VRAM, and it won't be.

[lHckrCmfr]

Honestly, it's such bullshit that AAA games are so poorly optimized they make even top-tier GPUs look bad. We've got almost a 4x raw raytracing and nearly 3x rasterization performance boost between Turing (RTX 20xx) and Ada Lovelace (RTX 40xx), and yet we're seeing none of that, because the software is literally 5 times shittier.

And don't even get me started on the broader scope of things. Most every single program we use daily could be nearly a thousand times faster if programming teams gave even a speck of thought to performance. Forget optimization, even basic performance-aware programming is at an all-time low.

Edit: can't help but recall the stupid GTA V Online loading times bug. They used a fucking JSON parsing library on an online game and didn't bother stress-testing it to see if it'd cause a problem down the line. Several years later, 10-15 minute loading times for everyone, if not worse, regardless of CPU horsepower. And even as it got increasingly out of hand, they didn't spend even 5 minutes debugging it. A hacker had to get inside the game's guts and figure the bug out for them, then make a public blog post about it to get them to fix it. Jesus.

[CJNG_]

Yeah some of the older games look great and doesn't need nasa computer 😂 true damn true... I always thought that.. Missing those days in which 1500$ is enough to build high end computer but nowadays rtx 4090 alone costs 1500$ 😢

[rangelfuchs]

finally a Tech channel that prvides me the infos I'm really looking for. Great ideo, looking forward for the next oes

[thegodhoward]

Ive been saying this for a while that devs need to start optimizing their games

Jesus f#ckin Christ it's a whole ass war going on down there!!

[gonti]

Common jamie W, pog video, i finally learned something about tech!

[WeebHamon]

Great video man, hope your channel gets the recognization it should get :)

[Davogre]

Hey man you are making very nice videos with a good amount of detail in it. I wish you and your channel a good future. Keep up the good work.

[Caulki]

I thought you were more popular cuz your videos are so good! Keep up the good work

[Bryien]

Great video both with the information conveyed and memes added for laughs

[abstractnonsense]

One of the advantages of having poor eye sight is having higher FPS.

[dubs]

When graphics card manufacturers are charging $1000+ up to $2000 they might as well spend the extra $20 or whatever to double the vram. I mean, come on, is $1020 or $2020 really going to be a deal breaker?

[LiamDoubleU]

Watching a video about 8gbs of vram on my 4gb card 💀

[syafiqrenaissance]

8GB of vram for 1080p with ultra settings in new AAA games in year 2020 or above. Other aspect when it comes to buy a graphic card that you need to check it out is gpu's 'bus width' as well as 'bus type'. I personally think that using ultra settings in order to use the whole gpu's vram is unnecessary because it's about 80/20 rule, unless you love to pause the games and examine every single pixel on your graphic's games. If your gpu powerful enough to do so, then go for it!

[Nayfus]

0:59 bro is hitting the most devious griddy (btw a montage of this would be hysterical)

[nadtz]

Nvidia has been clear on why they don't add more vram to the consumer cards is to not cannabalize their workstation cards sales. Not that it makes them any less greedy or anything but there ya go.

[enjay]

Hi what is the game being played at the 2:00 mark? thanks for the video i'm looking at 3060's at the moment as an upgrade to my old 960! Looking at the 12gb model which will be a huge upgrade and should do well for a while.

[numc]

only 92 subs???

keep up the good work and youll get more and more

[BogdanM]

So in 2021 when my 960 decided to leave this awful world we live in, I said I wanted to stay with Nvidia and managed to get a then decent priced 3060Ti. I'm happy with the card but that 8gb VRAM buffer is like someone following you at night. You know something's watching you but you don't know when or if it will strike. Lessons learned, I'm sure I'll be able to get an AMD 7000 series GPU for cheap right after they announce 8000 series (Like you can get 6000 series now for amazing deals)