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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.
Vega uses HBM memory that is on the package, unlike GDDR which just sits on the PCB. That mod would be much more complicated if not outright impossible.
Ah didnt think of that was just thinking about how the frontier edition is the same exact thing just with more ram and modified firmware and how there were even larger stacks of hbm2 memory available so the possibility of a vega 64 with even more ram seemed exciting. Properly tuned with amdmemorytweak or even just a good undervolt and they can be very efficient.
Even the 5500xt 8gb could provide some decent compute power with a bit of tuning or going in with more power tool and really unlocking the memory.
Would be awesome to have total control over your cards like that. Like oh I want this gpu but with this much ram at this speed using only this much power and easily making that a reality.
Idk im really into this stuff and have several of the chinese motherboards with old chipsets and modded bioses on them too. Kinda cool having a cheap unlocked xeon system that for the most part is totally usable. Before that years back was modding asus made hp motherboards to overclock xeons and running mobile amd chips in dual cpu systems to oc.
Could keep a lot of stuff out of the dumps and in use this way which I think is a good thing. Hopefully they figure this out on better cards the 580 is pretty weak
All Vega support HBCC. You can just turn HBCC on and tell games you have more VRAM, which does provide a performance boost in games that actually need it. If you don't need it, it does nothing.
I remember that made some benchmarks really happy. Havent tried it in years seemed pretty hit or miss, wonder if theres any reason to try it out again. Seemed to benefit the lows more than anything.
Idk Ill probably keep using these cards for quite a while. The VII is a beast for compute 64 and 56 both good too and still able to game with them at more than acceptable frame rates and resolutions. Idk I guess what I considered acceptable might not be the norm though I was watching videos about various handhelds for my son who wants to buy one and the people in them were calling 52 fps unplayable.
There's only two I'd recommend, Steam Deck, and AYN Odin 2. The windows handhelds are worthless battery hogs, and a terrible OS for handheld. The android handhelds are garbage with anything less than snapdragon. There's some acceptable dimensity 1200 ones, but the Odin 2 is a gen2 and cheaper. I'm not even sure if Steam Deck is worth OLED, no hall effect or freesync, and the power savings are cheating. The original Deck used more power than the limit, while OLED uses the exact limit, so they're lying through omission. OLED is also a cost saving edition with some things made cheaper, while "improved" in other ways, so it's not a total win, and the power savings are a numbers game, but you DO get a bigger battery, which was rather small on the original. I found 45 FPS to be a reasonable compromise on the original. Meanwhile, there's linux support on ARM, with x86 emulation, which if done right, could be a steam deck on ARM. That said, the actual Deck has superior support and controls, can slap on a battery pack. Also, if you go tablet, there's a tablet that does 3D like the 3DS. Lots of choices, not like the old days of nothing good. Nintendo has hacked switch mods, switch 2 could come out 2024, while you can emulate switch on the odin2. shrug