• SharpieThunderflare@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know, maybe it’s just me having not followed AAA games graphical requirements super closely, but I feel like 8GB at $300 is a killer 1080p card these days?

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      2 days ago

      I’ve seen reviews of the 5060 ti 8gb VS 16gb, and in some scenarios the 16gb model gets a playable FPS of 60+, while the 8gb gets ~15fps. If you have an 8gb card, that is fine, but I wouldn’t buy a new one in 2025.

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        2 days ago

        Do you know what resolution that is? I can see that for 4k, maybe 1440p, but if that’s happening for 1080p games have gotten a lot worse than I realized.

        I ran a 1070ti for quite a while (8GB), and recently upgraded to a 6700xt (12GB?). Running 1080p 144hz, I pretty much only use that extra vram when I run local LLMs or Stable Diffusion.

        More is better, but having 8GB for the “entry level” cards is fine IMO. Better than the 3/4 of the entry in the 1000 series nvidia cards.