NVIDIA talks about Pascal - Will be fast and has 3D Stacked Memory
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icedman
This sounds like its being way over hyped i doubt much is going to change.
Laci
Does this mean - next gen GPUs will have 12, 16 and 24 GB of vRAM? And the high-end Titan model 32 GB?
Seems to be a big leap for one generation.. I doubt this will happen, sounds more like a marketing trick to me.
Robbo9999
I wonder if this has any relevance to gaming? The extra memory bandwidth is gonna help, but I don't know if anything else he said is gonna specifically help gaming??
k3vst3r
fantaskarsef
I don't see anything besides the stacked memory to have much relevance to gaming. I guess that deep learning thing is more directed at a professional, cumputing interested audience.
k3vst3r
Fact they already talking about 32GB on their next generation card, should tell you where VRAM requirements are heading.
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xIcarus
Fox2232
Cloud Castles...
Games will always run just fine on 80% of gaming hardware which is in use in year of release.
Otherwise there would be no sales.
Look at steam or anywhere where they have statistics per user. Cut off bottom 20% gaming PCs and you get that average PC which user has.
And it costs fraction of what will nV ask for 16/32 GB Pascal.
Adoption of 16/32 GB Pascal by few % of gamers will not increase minimum/optimal requirements of games.
(unless nVidia compensates developers of such games for their loss)
This is marketing. It works, it supports Titan X Sales and will make people think twice about r9-390x 4GB version.
But I am pretty sure that even 1440p will be just fine with 4GB of vram for next few years.
Think about things which are stored in vram. How big are those things to fulfil their purpose. Will those requirements change over time?
How big textures one needs with 4k screen? How much space they take even uncompressed? Most of resources in vram today are precached even on 4k (they are not immediately needed and may not be even used).
rl66
GeniusPr0
lol @ 16 or 32gb being used in the next 4 years. that defeats the purpose of all the new tech and vram multicard allocation
D4rKy21
Lets see what eclap says about this, i think he wil be thinking twice now again before saying something that 3.5 or 4 gb should be enough, same as for some other folk 😉
Hughesy
It is enough though. Most people won't be playing at 4K. 4GB is plenty for 1440p, you'll get the odd game every year that wants more than that, just for marketing as a certain someone said in a review. Some games cache to fill the Vram, but will still perform fine without being able to do that.
Most games are made for consoles, they have unified ram, PC also has ram which can be used, so I don't think games will struggle with 4GB. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, you can never future proof a system.
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