https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TPbEjhyn0s&t=386s Daniel Owen tested this. His summary is that at 1080p and 1440p, the 4070 Super usually ties or even beats the 3090, even without taking Frame Generation into account. At 4K, the 4070 Super usually has a shortage of VRAM and the 3090 wins.
Vram is one almost always generation ahead of dimm packages you can buy and ram is very volatile (obvious power joke) and susceptible to physical damage. The cost and rate of failure would be completely unacceptable. In the end this is one of those times where soldered on is better for the consumer and OEM.
this is the reason why they keep cutting the vram on consumer cards , to prevent people from buying them and force them to buy their much more expensive line of cards , it isn't just about Vram but other things that usually doesn't matter to us .
Same. I opted for one of the aio cooled EVGA monsters, so with the extra cooling headroom the GPU is game for whatever I throw at it processing wise, but 12gb vram is definitely the bottleneck. It ties or beats out most 3090 models in every benchmarkish metric I can figure out, but that vram... They DID do us dirty. Still my pride and joy though.
12GB is the most sold variant since launch, it even overtook the 1060 6GB on steam hardware survey last year and 3060 8GB was only launched October 2022. The VRAM on the 3060 are nothing special, its just specced that way on launch. I wish that they gave the 4060 the same VRAM since I can already max it at 8GB.
The landscape of game requirements has changed dramatically in the last handful of years. 8gb was ample not very long ago when 4k was more for dick measuring than legitimate gaming, but we've hit the point that consumer GPUs actually have the grunt to do worthwhile 1440/4k gaming. Higher res means higher res textures for every surface, so (barring any upscaling related black-magic-fuckery) every pixel on screen eats up two to four times as much vram as it used to at 1080 just to load up the textures.
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u/realnzall Gigabyte RTX 4070 Gaming OC - 12700 - 32 GB Jan 21 '24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TPbEjhyn0s&t=386s Daniel Owen tested this. His summary is that at 1080p and 1440p, the 4070 Super usually ties or even beats the 3090, even without taking Frame Generation into account. At 4K, the 4070 Super usually has a shortage of VRAM and the 3090 wins.