Intel Graphics

[Micx]

When you're looking for budget cards... 4gb of vram vs 2gb of vram is not the item that is going to throttle your performance. Just sayin.

I can vouch for that statement. It's fantastic!

Getting 4GB is good for the lifespan of the card. A card with 4 gigs of RAM or higher will not go obsolete as fast. It may not be a bottleneck for your system right now to have 2 gigs, but it very well could be soon.

 

[C4C]

Getting 4GB is good for the lifespan of the card. A card with 4 gigs of RAM or higher will not go obsolete as fast. It may not be a bottleneck for your system right now to have 2 gigs, but it very well could be soon.

The amount of RAM has little to do with the bandwidth, output, and the speed of the RAM itself...

For example, the 4GB and 8GB RX 480 see little difference in most games, with the largest difference being 3-4 FPS.

TL;DR Teraflop performance plays a larger role than vRAM amount

 

[lincsman]

heck my gtx 770 is aging too, but with more ram i'll still be able to play battlefield 1. VRAM above 4gb is only really good for one thing these days: 4k. at 1080p there's not much need for it. If a game needs more ram, it just uses the system ram.

 

[Laquer Head]

heck my gtx 770 is aging too, but with more ram i'll still be able to play battlefield 1. VRAM above 4gb is only really good for one thing these days: 4k. at 1080p there's not much need for it. If a game needs more ram, it just uses the system ram.

Really though, 4GB is barely enough for 4K, really you need 6GB or ideally 8GB+ for sustained FPS,

There is an enormous difference, for me, from my GTX980 to my GTX1080, like day and night capability in high-end titles. Witcher 3, for example, is easily played at 60FPS steady at 4K. The 980 had to chug along in high and was really in the sweet spot at 1440p

I'm sure others have varying experiences but, man, 4K res is so freaking demanding!

 

[lincsman]

Umm I think you missed a little word there. I said "above" 4gb. However I learned a little from that. I will agree though that at 1080p 2gb is a little low probably. But yeah I have heard that even with 4gb Vram 4k doesn't really do well. I wonder how well a 1070 does at 4k.

 

[Darren]

I was near maxing out my 3GB of VRAM on my 7970 with GTA V at 1080p, and do go over 3GB at 1440p on my 390.

2GB on a 750 TI is fine. As stated the card is slow enough it doesn't matter. It is definitely getting on in age by now though and as @C4C I expect the RX 460 will soon dominate that price bracket.