If you want to buy an RTX 4000 graphics card, you still have to dig deep into your pockets. This gives some prospective buyers hope for cheaper models of the new generation that will be released soon. However, a recent rumor suggests that Nvidia’s choice could be made more difficult.
To be more precise, it is about the equipment with video memory. In a new tweet, Twitter user kopite7kimi, known for leaks that are quite apt, hints that history could repeat itself on this point:
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He does not say which new graphics cards this applies to. However, it stands to reason that he is referring to the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti GPUs expected by summer. What is particularly exciting is how exactly this will ultimately look like.
As a reminder: Even in the RTX 3000 generation, a faster GPU does not always mean a larger VRAM configuration. The RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070 and RTX 3070 Ti use 8.0 GB and the first RTX 3080 uses 10.0 GB, while the RTX 3060 with a slower GPU has 12.0 GB VRAM.
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The three RTX 4000 graphics cards that have been released so far rely on different amounts of VRAM. The RTX 4090 has 24.0 GB, the RTX 4080 has 16.0 GB and the RTX 4070 Ti has 12.0 GB. According to the current status of the rumors, the latter should also apply to the RTX 4070 without Ti additive, which is expected in April.
If kopite7kimi is correct, at least one of the new RTX 4060 models with 16.0 GB of video memory could appear. Also not excluded: The said RTX 4070 gets more VRAM than the RTX 4070 Ti.
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What role does video memory play?
If you want to play with a very high resolution and maximum quality settings, you will sometimes come up against certain limits even with 12.0 GB of VRAM in current titles. If the video memory is too full, this can manifest itself in short reloading stutters and/or textures that only load later with full quality.
This can often be mitigated slightly by reducing graphics settings such as ray tracing and texture quality, which are particularly demanding for the VRAM. However, a larger video memory buffer is generally desirable.
It remains to be seen whether the current rumors regarding the upcoming RTX 4000 GPUs will be true and how exactly the VRAM difference will affect the details. However, if they are correct, it would make the decision to buy a new Nvidia graphics card more complicated.
If you wanted to get one of the older RTX 3000 graphics cards instead, you could recently do so in the USA at unusually low prices. You can find out more about this in the following article:
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What do you think of the current rumors about the VRAM equipment of the upcoming RTX 4000 graphics cards? Is history repeating itself and Nvidia is once again equipping slower GPUs with more VRAM than some faster cards? Or will it not happen after all and the VRAM equipment will be less and less bit by bit? Feel free to write it in the comments!
