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Yep, Dawid already made a video comparing an original RX580 8gb vs the circumcised RX580 with 16gb. Out of all the games he tested there's only 1 that utilizes that 16gb memory but it's below 10fps! lmao.
Heh, caught me off guard with that description.
That video sounds about right. The place that more VRAM would be useful in is with compute, such as machine learning and video and photo editing, CAD, etc. I was doing image upscaling for the frames of a video a while ago, and it's easy to fill up all 8GB of VRAM by upscaling enough images at once.
But the 580 is old by now, so it wouldn't make sense to get a 16GB one for that either.
It wouldnt make much sense at all but Id like to have one. Really wouldnt mind seeing a Vega VII modded like this with more ram or even a vega 56 or 64. Those can be setup to sip the power and remain very capable for compute.
Im actually loving what the crypto crash has been doing. So many cool options for a decent price. At least where I live.
That's fair. I'd love to have one for a collection as well. Crypto has indeed churned out some cool mods of pre-existing cards. The machine learning boom might also incentivize more mods of this nature, since that benefits from VRAM just as crypto did.