I recently bought a 2GB MSI GTX 760 under the assumption that I would never need more than 2GB of VRAM. I game on a single 1080p monitor and have the card OC'd to 1215/7000. Today I turned on the "on screen display" through afterburner to monitor FPS and temps and just for fun I enable VRAM usage as well. I was pretty surprised when I reached 1923mb while playing BioShock Infinite at max settings. If I was only getting 30FPS I would have just dropped some settings down to free up some memory but I was averaging 75 FPS. I decided to test out a few more games and this is what I found:
Battlefield 3 completely maxed out at 70-80FPS: 1680mb
Dead Space 3 competley maxed out at 250FPS: 450mb
Crysis 3 completely maxed out (on 2xAA not 8x) at 40-45 FPS: 1850mb
Dead Space 3 made me laugh but the other games made me a little nervous. With titles like BF4 and Watch Dogs right around the corner am I going to run out of VRAM? I bought the card 20 days ago so I can still return or exchange it for either the 4GB version or something different all together. What do you guys think? What would you do? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Battlefield 3 completely maxed out at 70-80FPS: 1680mb
Dead Space 3 competley maxed out at 250FPS: 450mb
Crysis 3 completely maxed out (on 2xAA not 8x) at 40-45 FPS: 1850mb
Dead Space 3 made me laugh but the other games made me a little nervous. With titles like BF4 and Watch Dogs right around the corner am I going to run out of VRAM? I bought the card 20 days ago so I can still return or exchange it for either the 4GB version or something different all together. What do you guys think? What would you do? Any help is greatly appreciated!