Sunday, November 9, 2014

GTX 900 Series 8GB Landing In November

     With Nvidia's new 900 series card being such a hit because of the bang for their buck, many consumers are still iffy on the purchase because of the small amount of VRAM. While most games do not utilize 4GB's at 1080p, when pushed further at higher resolution, many low memory cards begin to struggle. Though most PC gamer's don't have the hardware to achieve such high resolutions, it leaves those that do unable to get the full affect. Nvidia has made the decision to roll out a fresh set of 8GB 970 and 980 cards to make up for the 4GB models and to counter any variant that AMD throws at them.

     Though I don't play at 4K resolution, I plan to in the near future. With a 4GB, the amount of titles that your are able to play at 4K with a reasonable fps is very low. Though Nvidia will be making 8GB models, the price of these models will be on the high end side of things and will most likely start at around $400. For some people, this much is not seen as a problem, but for more casual players and people that can't afford the price, they are let down and have to settle for the lower end model.