Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
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- Jan 28, 2012
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System Name | Apollo |
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Processor | Intel Core i9 9880H |
Motherboard | Some proprietary Apple thing. |
Memory | 64GB DDR4-2667 |
Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2 |
Storage | 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External |
Display(s) | Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays |
Case | MacBook Pro (16", 2019) |
Audio Device(s) | AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers |
Power Supply | 96w Power Adapter |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 3 |
Keyboard | Logitech G915, GL Clicky |
Software | MacOS 12.1 |
You do realize that GPUs cache data much like system memory does? I've read that a number of people have played Shadow of Morodor on 970s or 980s with the Ultra texture pack without too much issue and that the 6GB is actually a highballed number. In fact it seems that most people don't seem to think it uses more than 3-4GB on Ultra. Granted, I'm sure you watched the single video and took it for fact. AFAICT there aren't any games that utilize 6GB of VRAM unless you're using some insane number of huge and uncompressed textures or something dumb like that.I'm sorry, but this is coming from a guy that bought TWO Titans back in the day? Seriously?!
And umm you do realise it's a 120Hz monitor I have, right (which overclocks to 140Hz by the way)? Now go take a look at the review and tell me how many of those games render at above my refresh rate (to which I can always add DSR/extra AA anyway). Now add 3D Vision, which performs at around half the 2D rendered framerate. Now come back and tell it's a "waste".
As for the Titan X having 'too much VRAM', I will just leave this here:
That's last year's game at 1080p, eating over 6GB of VRAM...as I said, enjoy your higher clocks and a few extra FPS from aftermarket versions of the 980 Ti in older games -- I'd rather have the extra VRAM headroom, since looking at the amount of VRAM games are gobbling up these days, the £130 extra on the Titan X will pay for itself, and since the VRAM gap between the two cards is way too high (980 Ti should have launched with at least 8GB).