To nVidia: More Video Memory to 6GB on their Flagship GPUs please!!!

Well I thought about it this morning and I feel just like writing this today after experiences with using a standard OC GTX 780 across NVidia Surround.

Alright, to those who hasn't really caught up with the subject of PC Hardware and Gizmos, just a refresher to what the GTX 780 has. And today's subject I want to write is Video Memory.

The card has 3GB of GDDR5 Memory on a 384-bit bus. Now those who game on a single screen like 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440 may feel like 3GB of Video Ram is enough for a resolution. And yup, I do agree. Crank the resolutions to nVidia Surround and Eyefinity or go a 33% more to 4K Resolutions, 3GB I feel is definitely not enough. So nVidia: I would love and REALLY want you guys to release 6GB versions of the cards.

I've seen 6GB Cards but these are only from the Titans and the newly released Titan Blacks. 6GB is ideal on such high resolutions where you need it more for textures. But these are too expensive owing to the fact they concentrate more on CUDA Developers which require Double Precision Power which we DON'T need in a gaming scenario. AMD has opted for a good 4GB of VRAM on the R9 290 and R9 290X. Even though at smaller resolutions, these cards aren't as powerful as the GTX 780 Ti in terms of performance, the moment you go Surround or 4K, the differences become very close together. It may just be 1 Gig difference but that can mean a lot. It'll be so nice to have that amount of memory.

The Titans are not the first cards I see with 6GB of memory, Sapphire has actually managed to cramp 6GB of VRAM in their Toxic Editions of the Last Generation 7970 GHz Edition GPUs. That extra 3GB of frame buffer tested by Elric Phares back in his Motherboards.org days really helps a lot even though the card is now like 2 years old. It can still compete well as an OC R9 280X and perhaps a little more so with that additional Memory. And it's ironic that we actually see 4GB of VRAM on the Mobile GTX 780M on a GK 104 at 1920 x 1080, and we don't get to see more than 3GB of VRAM in a desktop non-double precision GK 110 that sees increasingly being used at 5760 x 1080 and Hardware enthusiasts are gonna need more than that. 5760 x 1080 is more common than 4K and it's still pretty damn demanding on VRAM despite being just three-quarters of a 4K here.

I really do hope nVidia comes up with a  6GB version of the card. Or 4GB and above at the very least...