That's an opinion. Personally, I prefer to run games at native resolution and only use upscaling if I have to. To me, it's not a feature to sell a graphics card with, but a helping hand before an upgrade. Textures are what really make a game pop, and that's where your VRAM capacity matters.
RTX means DLSS, DLAA, DLDSR, Reflex, useful RT and many others features. AMD has no features that comes close. FSR is mediocre compared to DLSS. They have no answer to DLAA and DLDSR or Reflex and RT performance is too slow. Hence the lower price.
DLAA beats any other AA method today, and is a part of DLSS. It's simply a preset of DLSS.
DLAA will
always improve on native. Bigtime actually. Looks FAR BETTER than native.
DLSS @ Quality Mode will very often as well + improve performance by 50% or so ->
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/outriders-dlss-performance
Why? Because DLSS has built in AA with sharpening as well = Delivering a cleaner and sharper image than native most of the time while also upping performance.
Native on it's own is pretty much meh -> You need proper AA on top and you might also need some form of sharpening (AMD CAS or Nvidia Sharpening or DLAA which does BOTH)
"Native" is pretty much dying. It's not the best solution in many new games. Native means you need to use some old crappy AA solution like TAA (blurry) or live with jaggies all over. DLAA removes EVERYTHING and makes the picture clean. It is the only point of DLAA = Best looking image and it will beat native any time.
Upscaling is here to stay. The industry embraced it and many new PC games use it by default (Starfield, Remnant 2 among others) and consoles uses it as well in many games (+ dynamic res to make up for the weaker hardware).
It is actually insane that some people think upscaling is only if you lack performance. AMD users think this, because they don't know about DLSS/DLAA and are stuck with FSR which is blurry and has mediocre motion. Yeah FSR upscaling is worse than native most of the time, DLSS is not and DLAA is ALWAYS BETTER than native.
Yeah VRAM matters if the GPU is up to the task. I don't lack VRAM on my 4090. 4080 has more than enough VRAM as well and so does 4070 series.
4060 and Ti 8GB might get a problem in a game or two at high res, when fully maxed, however, 4060 8GB won't max out demanding games at high res anyway, it's a lower end solution.
Besides 4060 8GB vs 16GB was tested and the conclusion was:
"No significant performance gains from 16 GB VRAM"
3070 8GB beats 6700XT 12GB in 2023 as well, even in 4K/UHD gaming. Launch MSRP were 20 dollars apart.
But sure, keep thinking VRAM is the most important stuff
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Not really. If done right it works very well.
News flash: Those benchmarks are run on the HIGHEST settings possible. No real gamer runs games like that. Your logic has no merit.
This what they said about 4k a few years ago, and here we are..
YOUR opinion, one that does not meet with logic. Another news flash for you: The Geforce GTX 1080 is 7years and 4 generations old, is STILL a good card and can do 4k gaming, when some settings are turned down. The RX580 is 6years, 5 generations old and can do 4k gaming with a few more settings turned down. Both cards are still relevant, though showing their age. In 6years time the 7800XT will be showing it's age but will still be able to push games at 4k very well.
Absolute moose-muffins! Extra memory can ALWAYS make a difference and often does. Stop shoveling that crap, no one believes you because most of us know better and the rest can use their brains for something more than a seat-cushion.
Nah draw distance is not mostly VRAM. Actually it uses very little VRAM and is more CPU. This is why consoles typically lower draw distance, because CPU is weak. Get some engine knowledge please.
Yeah highest settings = Most VRAM usage. Logic 101.
1080 don't do 4K/UHD gaming really. Lmao. Dailed down settings = Less VRAM usage, which is why it is pointless to try and futureproof with VRAM in the first place. Once again, Logic.
Are you drunk or sumthing? Was funny to read your post
Makes absolutely no sense. You speak about VRAM is important but also about LOWERING SETTINGS which will LOWER VRAM REQUIREMENT - Sigh