Is 10 GB vram good for gaming in the future?

[animemasterthatis2spoopy4u]

My new gaming laptop has a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card with 10 GB Vram is that good in the future? Is it overkill right now?

 

[pablocf16]

Definitely overkill. Even triple A games on tue highest settings won't use half that memory.

 

[dontlistentome]

It's more than enough. Based on my experience with laptops, the thing you should keep an eye on is dirt/dust and temperatures. Those components will serve you well for a long time, but heat can undermine everything. Also, run on AC power as much as you can when gaming.

 

[geofelt]

VRAM has become a marketing issue.
My understanding is that vram is more of a performance issue than a functional issue.
A game needs to have most of the data in vram that it uses most of the time.
Somewhat like real ram.
If a game needs something not in vram, it needs to get it across the pcie boundary
hopefully from real ram and hopefully not from a hard drive.
It is not informative to know to what level the available vram is filled.
Possibly much of what is there is not needed.
What is not known is the rate of vram exchange.
Vram is managed by the Graphics card driver, and by the game. There may be differences in effectiveness between amd and nvidia cards.
And differences between games.
Here is an older performance test comparing 2gb with 4gb vram.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/
Spoiler... not a significant difference.
A more current set of tests shows the same results:
http://www.techspot.com/review/1114-vram-comparison-test/page5.html

And... no game maker wants to limit their market by
requiring huge amounts of vram. The vram you see will be appropriate to the particular card.

 

[animemasterthatis2spoopy4u]

Okay, what about in the future? Btw I have had overheating problems before, but I can run lots of games on high without any lag, but I will watch the heating level.

Btw the laptop came with 10 GB vram.

 

[geofelt]

Your question is moot.
Laptops are not easily changed as to cpu or graphics.
It is what it is, and if you need more, you buy a new laptop.

That said, do not worry about vram. 10gb is a very large amount.
The only way you could get in trouble with insufficient vram would be if you implemented a poor modification of a game