Question Older Amd graphics cards had a pixel limit do modern ones still have this?

[17blue17]

In the past ( 10 years or less ) I had a amd sapphire graphics card and I used to mod the paradox game eu4. The game uses graphic strip files in tga or dds format and the game knows when to use a particular frame (image) on the single graphic file strip. For example if there are 61 frames ( images) each being 64 pixels by 64 pixels on one graphics stip file the game would know when to use frame 33 or frame 1 etc. For amd cards if the file was more than I think 2048 pixels wide the amd gpu would show frame 1 rather than frame 33 as it would start over as the width exceeded some memory limit. Not sure what to call this limit and therefore I can't seem to find an answer using google so I am asking here. Game mods had to include a shrunk down verion of the graphics strips for users having AMD gpus. Nvidia cards did not have this issue and would show the 33 frame or the 61st frame without issue.

If I switch from Nvidia back to AMD due to the cost of a new gpu does AMD still have this type of limit?

Thank you.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

Welcome to the forums. I'm not at all sure what it is you're describing. I've never heard of an AMD GPU with a pixel limit as such, or do you mean the resolution the GPU can display?

If for example we look at the R9 Fury X GPU from 10 years ago, it could support up to 4k resolution (3840x2160) which is a lot of pixels. Newer cards like even from 4 years ago like the R 6800XT and it supports up to 8k resolution (7680x4320) which is a huge number of pixels. Is this what you mean?