VRAM Usage

[JForce522]

Hello BA,
I recently built my first computer (FX-8320, 8GB RAM, SSD+HDD, dual-boot Win7 and Arch Linux) and I’m using a crappy graphics card (GT 520) from a friend to power the display. When I buy my own GPU, it will most likely be a GTX 770. There are two models I’m considering, one with 2 gigs of VRAM and the other with 4. I know the extra won’t help in games, but I also know Cycles uses VRAM in the rendering process.

Basically, is it worth spending $50 extra to make sure my renders don’t crash and fail or will I hit that 2GB limit so rarely that the extra is unnecessary?
Thanks for the help!

[anon65932258]

@JForce522"

Basically, is it worth spending $50 extra to make sure my renders don’t crash and fail or will I hit that 2GB limit so rarely that the extra is unnecessary?
Thanks for the help!

spending this $50 more makes definitely sense. Did have some scenes in the past that needed to be rendered with cpu because of les VRAM… wish I had more.

[JForce522]

@anon65932258

spending this $50 more makes definitely sense. Did have some scenes in the past that needed to be rendered with cpu because of les VRAM… wish I had more.

Thank you! I’ve decided to get the 4gb version so I won’t have to upgrade for quite a while

For anyone interested, I purchased this card for $359.99.