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Post by Xanphal on May 13, 2017 6:15:51 GMT
I have a RX470 4Gb (which is overclocked and running at a slightly higher speed than the stock RX480) and I very rarely get any stuttering on high settings. FPS averages around 50 and that's with only 8Gb of RAM and an overclocked i5 3570k. I'm no expert but I doubt that going from 4Gb to 8Gb will do much at all. 4Gb should be enough to play just about anything on 1080p ultra at present, so long as you have a fast enough card. A higher clock speed is going to be far more important. As Light said above, 8Gb would be more about future-proofing. Lol you have pretty much my same rig. I'm running a RX 470 8GB on an i5-3570, with 16BG of RAM and Andromeda runs flawlessly on ultra. I have experienced minor micro stutters in places, but that has nothing to do with my hardware and everything to do with little flaws in the game itself. If you want a card that will play games well the 4GB is all you really need, but I would suggest going the same route I did and future proofing yourself with an 8GB card. (and yes, those nVidia groupies don't understand that telling you how great their cards are really doesn't help when you're asking about something that's not nVidia. lol)
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Post by Moghedia on May 13, 2017 8:17:28 GMT
got an RX 480 8gb, game plays fine for me...
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Post by Finnen on May 13, 2017 8:56:28 GMT
I'm confused. Someone says 4gb are enough,someone says not. The same confusion can be applied to stuttering - some people say that they play with mediocre PCs without stuttering while others with GTX 1070/1080 say that they stutter. I'd recommend checking Mass Effect PC Performance Thread on NeoGAF - people are complaining since the release about stuttering even on powerful rigs. The fact is that in sheer theory 4GB of VRAM should be more than enough for 1080p gaming. But as I said, I have GTX 970 with 4GB VRAM + 8GB of RAM in my PC and Andromeda stutters. Same for my girlfriend who has very similiar rig (i5-4460, 8GB RAM, GTX 970 4GB VRAM) - she has a lot of stuttering too. Maybe it's not a problem with VRAM but with RAM. I don't know. Personally I don't even play on Ultra (only textures, because otherwise face textures get blurry in cutscenes even on High textures), rest is set to mix of medium / high. Sometimes the game works fine, perfectly smooth 60 FPS, otherwise it stutters. It stutters especially after going to new place after few hours of playing. It becomes unplayable. To me it's a memory leak in the game. Maybe if I had 16gb of RAM instead of 8gb it would help, but I've seen a lot of complaints even from people with 32GB of RAM so... Some people said that they saw RAM usage (RAM, not VRAM) at 25GB! Let me put it this way - Andromeda is not a good choice to base your shopping requirements. Rest of the games work fine, so yes, in theory 4GB is enough and any stuttering in Andromeda is caused by lack of optimization (to compare it to you, I can play Inquisition with NVIDIA DSR set to x2.00 so the game is scaled down from 1526p, with everything on Ultra except MSAA at stable 30 FPS without ANY stuttering AT ALL, if I set it to 1080p and mix of high / ultra then it's perfect 60 with few occasional dips). I also don't have any stuttering with newer games. So yes, all in all 4GB is enough for 1080p gaming, assuming that the game is optimized. Andromeda, in my humble opinion, is not optimized YET. However If I were to buy a new GPU I would aim at 8GB VRAM but that's just me. Maybe I'm not exactly objective because I like to play Skyrim, Fallouts, Dragon Age Origins and other older games heavily modded, especially with the textures, and in these cases 8GB of VRAM is very helpful. It's also future-proof, especially if you don't plan on changing quick. I use one GPU for 3-4 years, but if you're willing to change your GPU next year, then you can go for 4GB. There is a lot of stuff to consider
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Post by Light on May 13, 2017 9:46:55 GMT
(and yes, those nVidia groupies don't understand that telling you how great their cards are really doesn't help when you're asking about something that's not nVidia. lol) Originally both the thread title and content had no mention at all of AMD, he just asked about RAM. So helios969 did nothing wrong. The edit was made after the post. Note the timestamps. Title edited..now it's better I on the other hand now keep bringing up nVidia and GTX to piss in TheInvoker's cornflakes because he made that falsehood riddled nasty comment to helios696 about what should have been a non-issue. GTX 1070 8gb works well on ultra settings what did you not understand about feedbacks from AMD rx480 rx580 with 4gb? None of the referenced AMD rx480 or rx580 was actually in the original thread before helios696 posted.
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Post by bizantura on May 13, 2017 14:48:03 GMT
Stuttering/flickering is due to crossfire = 2 cards. It is still not fixed with patch 1.06 or by drivers AMD. I disabled crossfire and playing MEA with one card, AMD Radeon 290 @ 2560 x 1600. Don't expect above 60 fps on this resolution but no problems playing the game. Why not wait for AMD Vega? Or...just go with Nvidia. Decent fps in high resolution is what I am after on very big screens in that department AMD performance is better than Nvidia's. Nvidia is good at raw fps performance I don't care diddly squat about.
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Post by TheInvoker on May 13, 2017 17:23:50 GMT
If you hate stuttering then you have to go with 8GB. I still don't think it will remove stuttering entirely - it seems to me that there are a lot of different reasons for stuttering and VRAM is the only one thing that influences it. I have GTX 970 4GB with 8GB of RAM and I stutter horribly, even on the custom settings that allow me to play at 58-60 FPS most of the time. This game just stutters and the only way to remove it is to make a total overkill with RAM and VRAM. I heard one guy on EA Answers HQ removed stuttering after buying 2x GTX 1080Ti. So there you go. Personally I would STRONGLY suggest you buy 8GB version of that card. If not only for Andromeda, it will help in other games. More and more games use high quality textures that require a lot of VRAM. Buying 4GB version in 2017 is not the most optimal choice. It's still enough, but I would consider buying something with at least 6GB. But that's my opinion. I'm confused. Someone says 4gb are enough,someone says not. I can say that 8GB is overkill. (or future-proofing if you have extra cash to spend) I already posted that my old GTX 780M 4GB could play medium settings without stuttering or flicking at all. Well my new runs a GTX 1060 6GB that can run all ultra settings perfectly smooth, and the machine itself only has 16GB of RAM (where I would prefer 32). I said i want to play at ultra I can play with medium settings even with 2gb
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Post by TheInvoker on May 13, 2017 17:30:15 GMT
(and yes, those nVidia groupies don't understand that telling you how great their cards are really doesn't help when you're asking about something that's not nVidia. lol) Originally both the thread title and content had no mention at all of AMD, he just asked about RAM. So helios969 did nothing wrong. The edit was made after the post. Note the timestamps. Title edited..now it's better I on the other hand now keep bringing up nVidia and GTX to piss in TheInvoker's cornflakes because he made that falsehood riddled nasty comment to helios696 about what should have been a non-issue. what did you not understand about feedbacks from AMD rx480 rx580 with 4gb? None of the referenced AMD rx480 or rx580 was actually in the original thread before helios696 posted. Maybe missed the 4th message. I wrote "AMD feedbacks" specially "rx480 and rx580"
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