Maxing out on GTX 1060 3Gb, more RAM needed???

[hraza1335]

can i max out all games if i have gtx 1060 3gb, i5 6600, 8gb Ram or 16gb RAM???

 

[dontlistentome]

At 1080p there are already games which require more vram if you 'max' them out. High res textures and forms of AA eat vram like it's breakfast.

 

[mdd1963]

a 1060 (3 GB) card is not an ultra/max quality GPU....; try it, if frame rates are too low, try medium to medium-high quality...(no AA of any type)

 

[InvalidError]

As above, many modern games require at least 4GB of VRAM if you want to turn up eye-candy. I recently bought FFXV on Steam sale and it already gobbles up the better part of 4GB of VRAM even at low-average details. Not going to be maxing that out with less than 6GB, maybe even 8GB.

 

[hraza1335]

Thanks guys but what will happen if i max out some games and the Vram limit exceeds???? will it just drop some fps off course or stutturs too????

 

[InvalidError]

Thanks guys but what will happen if i max out some games and the Vram limit exceeds???? will it just drop some fps off course or stutturs too????

System memory has about 1/5th as much bandwidth and ~10X higher latency than local VRAM due to having to cross the PCIe bus and compete with the CPU for system memory access. The performance degradation can be massive when frequently used data ends up overflowing to system memory.

 

[hraza1335]

At 1080p there are already games which require more vram if you 'max' them out. High res textures and forms of AA eat vram like it's breakfast.

 

[hraza1335]

So plz tell me overall direct to the point, it means we can use system Ram to help increase VRam, Right??

 

[InvalidError]

So plz tell me overall direct to the point, it means we can use system Ram to help increase VRam, Right??

Yes and no: yes, the GPU can borrow system RAM to handle larger workloads than what its local frame buffer can handle. However, this comes at a potentially massive performance loss due to much lower bandwidth and much higher latency. You may have tons of GPU-power available but large chunks of it become untappable because they're starving on RAM/VRAM.

This is a lot like using a swapfile when you run out of system RAM. It stops the OS from outright crashing programs when they try to allocate more RAM than what is physically available at the expense of a massive (50-99%) performance loss when this happens too often.

Short version: it works but ain't no substitute.

 

[hraza1335]

I saw the video when it exceeds limit of 3Gb VRam but it was almost using 10Gb Ram while gaming instead of 8Gb, cuz game was using almost 8Gb ram when it was not exceeding 3Gb VRam, I hope its a solution then ;D