I have a gtx 770 atm that i plan on returning for an aftermarket one. while shopping for after markets i notice there are two variants. I dont plan on gaming past 1080p resolutions for a good while but I do plan on adding high resolution texture mods to any game I get. will I benefit from 4gb vs 2gb?
Yes you will benefit. My modded version of skyrim uses close to 3 gigs of video ram.
I own a 680 4GB, and when I played Skyrim, using my ENB, and 4k textures, with the Parallax mods, and all that jazz, I never used that much more than 2GB. It was always a GPU power issue for me, even at 1400mHz GPU core.
I would go for the 4gb, better safe than sorry.
thanks a lot guys! I think i will pay out a little bit more for the 4gb. :)
on a similar note, i am hoping the 770 successor (im guessing it will be the 870? lol) will have 3gigs standard. one can hope :P
They need to start upping the GB standard quickly. 4k gaming is coming and coming fast! I don't see the point in anything past 2.5k but oh well. Means graphics cards that can go beast mode on all games 2.5k and under ;)
4K gaming is not coming fast my friend, at least not for your average PC gamer with a budget under $1K.
I mean, I'm not sure I agree that it's coming "fast" but it's coming. I already feel 2.5K is on it's way to replace 1K within a generation or two. R9 280X runs most games at 2.5K pretty damn well as is, and my R9 290X just beasts though everything I throw at this res.
I think 4K is becoming the new 2.5K if anything in terms of difficulty of driving. I remember when I had to get two HD5870 in crossfire, overclock them both to 1GHz to truly be able to run the demanding games of the time at 60FPS on my 2560x1600 Dell monitor at the time. Now I think that's the case with the R9 290X and attempting to run games at 4K.
Again I don't mean user adoption of those resolutions (albeit I see a huge upturn in 2.5k adoption), I mean how difficulty it is for modern GPUs to drive those resolutions. I think that's a bit more realistic maybe?
4k is not coming fast. you can get a Seiki 50" 4k tv for like $1,100? but i believe you are maxed at 30fps at 4k. plus, that is huge lol. i think the cheapest 4k monitors are $3,200-3,500? so yeah. it may be 3-4 years before we see a sub $1,000, and even then, it won't be widely adopted by most. who knows when we will see 4k monitors at $300-400......
however, people are doing a lot more multi-monitor gaming, so yeah. but even more than that, im thinking that with these new consoles (and most big games being developed them first, then ported) we may see games utilizing more vRAM. so who knows. Personally, ill be sticking with 1080p till 4k becomes sub $500. by then, the hardware will have caught up to the amount of pixels and be able to offer playable frame rates without going for a 780+ lol
i guess the holy grail of monitors (ATM) would be a 4k 120hz+ IPS with 1ms response time, sub 8ms input lag, with G-sync....... who knows when we will see such a thing lol
modding is pretty much a MUST HAVE so.... if skyrim uses 3GB of VRAM... think about the games of the 2015 :D , 1 year away....
i would chose 4GB or even 6GB
you're right. I should have worded my statement differently. what i should have written was its definitely coming and large corporations are really pushing for a fast adoption. I say pushing because dispite the high cost for product versus the obvious average persons income they are still trying to throw it in your face.
I wasnt old enough at the time to watch the tactics of the push for 720i & 1080i so this could be the norm.
4, my 7950 will breach 2gigs of vram on skyirm.
http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/dp/B00DOPGO2G
$577 as I post this for the 39" version which is what I'd go for because it has similar pixel density to my 2.5K screen it's just 12in larger. Actually considering getting one just for the desktop space, not gaming.
i wasn't going to mention the Seiki's because they are TVs. if 4k blurays came out tomorrow (assuming it handles 24p @4k well) i would definitely see getting one, but not as a gaming monitor. i honestly do not know the input lag (im a stickler for such things. haven't used a tv yet that i could play FPS on.... horrid lag) but even if it had CRT level input lag, it would not be a good gaming monitor as it can only do 30hz (30 frames per second) at 4k. i play FPS and fighting games, and for me, that is unacceptable.
4 GB model is always a good way to ensure that you will have plenty of memory available for textures and prefetching. Also, there is a 2.5k texture pack for Skyrim that is really pretty and way less intensive than the 4k pack, especially since you are only looking to display at 1080p. Dark Souls is another of the mod-packed games that turns VRAM hungry very quickly. It is also almost ridiculously pretty when you get done with it.
It's only held back by the HDMI standard. Wait for HDMI 2.0 which will support 60Hz 4K output. Otherwise I agree, as I said, I'd use it for the desktop space and game on my 2.5K Samsung PLS display.