Summary
One thing you really have to hand it to NVIDIA, because if you’re below the required amount of memory with your card, they trick you and breathe loudly through the PCIe slot like there’s no tomorrow. Surely, such a thing can’t be done without collateral damage, but at least they’ve given themselves a nice patch for their incomprehensible memory stinginess. The NVIDIA cards at least run smoother than the AMD cards with an identical lack of memory, although some content is lost. However, this only works with PCIe 4.0 and at least 8 lanes. If you cleverly switch it down a notch to PCIe 3.0 in the BIOS, then it’s the end of the road. For both cards, mind you.
What is a real flaw with the NVIDIA card, however, is the failure of the memory management when the memory requirement is close to the available memory amount. I would not have suspected that the card then goes so brutally to its knees, but it can also be seen and conveniently reproduced in other games. As the owner of an NVIDIA card, I would make sure that I configure the settings in such a way that either over 1 GB less is needed than is available, or significantly more (with the drawback of optical losses). This only works with the right PCIe configuration.
However, AMD is also challenged here, because why limitations are already visible at 12 GB, although only 10 GB are needed in theory, must surely be explained there. The fact that there is no real relief from the driver’s intervention in the reduced amounts, but you only save yourself (more or less well depending on the game) via the system memory (congratulations to SAM/rBAR), is also expressed in the results. Exactly that is certainly one of the reasons why AMD advertises full-bodied with the larger memory expansion. What’s available doesn’t have to be simulated by trickery.
Conclusion
It’s really the same with the memory as with the displacement, because it can’t be replaced by anything else but itself, but in a larger amount. Even in Full HD, you can reach the 8 GB limit with TLOU1, and we already know what happens with a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB. Memory expansion equals real memory requirement gives a nasty beating. By the way, I once tricked the RTX 4060 Ti and took away a whole GB of memory. The card ran even smoother with 7 GB. However, with the already known limitations, which are not really visible.
Conclusion: Please install more memory and do not intervene in the memory management when the memory is already too tight, but shortly before. This is especially true for NVIDIA, but also for AMD in a slightly different form. There is actually nothing more to add to that. And after this finger exercise, I’ll sort out all the workstation cards for the announced special. I can’t go on being sick forever. 🙂
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