Recently I’ve finally built something that I could consider ‘decent’, 10th gen i5 and 16GB of DDR4 but what aggravates me the most is that I could only attain an RX 570 4GB within my extremely tight budget, how much can I get out of said cards nowadays? Specially given how stupidly high PC game requirements are nowadays. I play at 1080p, not even 2K.

I have a dripfeed of an income so it can be very difficult for me to even upgrade a storage device.

  • Kutsuya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    On 1080p I would say it would be fine? Just don’t expect to play everything maxed out.

    • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This. What primarily uses up the space is:

      • textures (twice the size, four times the storage) and having a colour / bump / reflectivity / emmisivity / diffusivity / &c texture for every surface

      • shadow maps - (most) lights have a high-resolution texture associated with them, see how far they ‘shine’ in every direction before they hit something. Modern games have a lot of lights

      Turn down texture and shadow quality, watch your GPU RAM usage drop right off.

      • Asako@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Don’t expect to play everything maxed out

        Nah, my aim has always been smooth/high framerates over “ultra” settings so I don’t have worries about that sort of thing. Never been an “eye candy” kind of guy.

        shadow maps

        This I didn’t know, I thought that textures were the main thing that really made GPUs choke nowadays, given how devs are obsessed with things like 8K textures and whatnot.

        Still, good to see that I didn’t buy an useless card for today’s gaming, or at least I think so. I run Gundam Battle Operation 2 perfectly fine and stable so far.

  • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    also i5, but 9th gen - 32gb ddr4. previous gpu was a 970, now I use a 1650, both 4gb vram. havent had any issues myself, though I do need to decrease some gfx settings occasionally to improve performance.

  • Sleepnut@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I had a 980 FE and it was begging for mercy, you can get good frames on 1080p, low settings, if your card has good cooler, so it won’t turn into a grilling pan. But i would suggest upgrading even with a second hand part (i got myself a second hand palit 3070 jet stream, it is a trooper, but the cooler can’t keep up with the heat at times.) so yeah, that’s that.

    I should add games like csgo, fortnite, rainbow, gta v, rdr2, skyrim runs fine on a 4gb but still…