What is the maximum amount of Vram needed for 1440p, 144Hz?

[XtremeAero426]

I'm looking to get a 1440p 144Hz monitor and I was wondering the maximum amount of Vram that would be needed for 1440p 144Hz presently.

 

[geofelt]

About 2gb would be fine.

VRAM has vecome 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.
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.

 

[ingtar33]

I'm looking to get a 1440p 144Hz monitor and I was wondering the maximum amount of Vram that would be needed for 1440p 144Hz presently.

depends on the title mostly, and the card you plan to use. understand for a gpu to properly drive a 1440p monitor at 144hz would be like the same gpu driving a 4k monitor at 60hz, so you'll need a heafty gpu to get playable performance and a serious overclock on the cpu as well.

For 4k in games like shadows of mordor you'd probably need close to 4+gb of vram... in GTAV you'd likely need about the same... most games will probably be ok with a little bit less. Typically 1440p is fine with 3gb of vram, Atleast you won't see any real bottlenecking at 1440p and 3gb of vram.

 

[XtremeAero426]

I'm looking to get a 1440p 144Hz monitor and I was wondering the maximum amount of Vram that would be needed for 1440p 144Hz presently.

depends on the title mostly, and the card you plan to use. understand for a gpu to properly drive a 1440p monitor at 144hz would be like the same gpu driving a 4k monitor at 60hz, so you'll need a heafty gpu to get playable performance and a serious overclock on the cpu as well.

For 4k in games like shadows of mordor you'd probably need close to 4+gb of vram... in GTAV you'd likely need about the same... most games will probably be ok with a little bit less. Typically 1440p is fine with 3gb of vram, Atleast you won't see any real bottlenecking at 1440p and 3gb of vram.

I'm basically asking what game uses the most Vram at 1440p 144Hz at the time of this posting. So Shadow of Mordor uses the most Vram or is it a different game like Crysis 3 or Metro Last Light Redux?

 

[ingtar33]

I'm basically asking what game uses the most Vram at 1440p 144Hz at the time of this posting. So Shadow of Mordor uses the most Vram or is it a different game like Crysis 3 or Metro Last Light Redux?

Shadow of Mordor or Watch Dogs will use over 2gb in 1080p, really you need a min of 3gb for both games in 1080p. Shadow of Mordor will basically use all the vram a card has, but it rarely seems to suffer for it, so while technically it is probably the biggest vram hog, this is probably an illusion. In reality Watch Dogs probably is the champ of the Vram pigs. I'm pretty sure it actually gets bottlenecked badly if you have less then 3gb of vram in 1080p, and playing with less then 4gb in 1440p is probably a no go aswell

So to answer your question Watch Dogs will be the current VRAM champ; that said a lot of games seem to be bumping up against 3gb or more. currently, i'd say the gtx970/r9-290/r9-290x 4gb of vram is enough for 1440p, but in a few years it might not be anymore.

 

[XtremeAero426]

I'm basically asking what game uses the most Vram at 1440p 144Hz at the time of this posting. So Shadow of Mordor uses the most Vram or is it a different game like Crysis 3 or Metro Last Light Redux?

Shadow of Mordor or Watch Dogs will use over 2gb in 1080p, really you need a min of 3gb for both games in 1080p. Shadow of Mordor will basically use all the vram a card has, but it rarely seems to suffer for it, so while technically it is probably the biggest vram hog, this is probably an illusion. In reality Watch Dogs probably is the champ of the Vram pigs. I'm pretty sure it actually gets bottlenecked badly if you have less then 3gb of vram in 1080p, and playing with less then 4gb in 1440p is probably a no go aswell

So to answer your question Watch Dogs will be the current VRAM champ; that said a lot of games seem to be bumping up against 3gb or more. currently, i'd say the gtx970/r9-290/r9-290x 4gb of vram is enough for 1440p, but in a few years it might not be anymore.

Alright, thanks. I guess the R9 300-Series is my best bet then.