VRAM It can be said that the topic has been very hotly discussed recently, such as AMD A few years ago we said that large capacity is very important.Suddenly he changed his mind and believed that 8GB is enough for most players., but it is certain that many actual tests have shown that the same graphics card is only different in VRAM, and the game performance of 8GB and 16GB is also very different, even for old graphics cards from several years ago. Recently, a foreign YouTube channel shared the modification of GTX 970.memoryActual testing of games after enlarging to 8GB shows that compared to the original 4GB, the performance is improved by up to 40%, but there are still exceptions.
After the GeForce GTX 970 memory is increased to 8GB, the performance of many games has improved
This NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 memory modification was completed by Paulo Gomes and his team, and was recently sent to the well-known Brazilian YouTube channel Peperaio Hardware for actual testing.
GTX 970 is a model launched by NVIDIA in 2014. It has been more than 10 years ago. With such an old graphics card, many people will be curious whether increasing VRAM will also help improve game performance? The answer is yes, but if you are running modern games, you still have to consider the computing intensity of the chip used by the GPU. If it is not running well, even if the VRAM is doubled, there will be no performance improvement.
Peperaio Hardware tested a variety of games, including Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA V: Enhanced Edition, Counter Strike 2, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon: Forbidden West, and The Last of Us Part II.
The first is “Red Dead Redemption 2”. There is no difference in this game. The average FPS of GTX 970 4GB is similar to that of 8GB:
“Counter Strike 2” has a slight increase, but it is only about 3%. In terms of game experience, you should not feel the difference:
When “Cyberpunk 2077” uses FSR 3, the performance of the 8GB version is also significantly improved. Peperaio Hardware said it is about 15%:
Horizon: Forbidden West has the biggest difference among all games, with a gap of 40%;
After the game “The Last of Us Chapter II” GTX 970 was upgraded to 8GB VRAM, the performance also increased by 24%:
Therefore, from the above tests, it can be determined that even old graphics cards, as long as they have the ability to increase VRAM, will have the opportunity to obtain good game performance improvements (if you are playing 1080p). But if you want to play modern AAA games, increasing the VRAM may not be helpful, and older games will feel more enjoyable to play.
Peperaio Hardware’s full test video:
The picture below is before PC Games Hardware Shared actual measured differences in game performance between Radeon RX 7600 8GB and Radeon RX 7600XT 16GB. In nearly half of the games, the 16GB version performs much better. Some games with 8GB will experience crashes:
Source: KOCPC Chinese