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what's up YouTube you're watching J's two cents in this week I've been asked a million times about how much RAM you really need on your graphics card and that's exactly what we're going to talk about in this episode of a little bita Tech it's no joke people I think a lot of people are really confused about how much RAM they really need on their video card what i'm doing here is i'm running Haven benchmark this is a synthetic benchmark where it runs a bunch of loops in it turns on tessellation and DirectX 11 and such and if we look at MSI Afterburner here you can see really using 800 megabytes at 1080p resolution the most we've ever used in this benchmark here was 817 megabytes as you can see right there in the red font so I went ahead and let this run a few times just to see how much we can absolutely maxed out the memory usage settings were put as high as they would possibly go and you can see again we're sitting right about the 800 megabyte mark that is nowhere near the two gigabytes that this gtx 680 has and i went ahead and ran the 3d mark 11 benchmark and it was even less I didn't even bother putting up a picture of it here because it only used three hundred and fifty megabytes but a lot of people will say hey that's not fair this is a synthetic benchmark so we went ahead and loaded up the battlefield 3 and we as you can see here all settings are on ultra 4 x MSAA and look at that we are sitting once again about 961 megabytes of video ram used you can't see however though that the usage is going up and down as high as 1.1 gigabytes of video ram so what i'm showing you here is what's affecting that is the MSA a and as i go through the different settings you can see that the amount of memory used on the left goes up and down depending on that setting same thing with ambient occlusion which is the type of lighting effects so to use inside the app so right off the bat you can see here at max settings everything put as high as you can go an anisotropic filter had no effect on the memory usage whatsoever at 1080p on max settings on battlefield 3 which is one of the more demanding games that are out on the market we never used more than 1,100 megabytes of memory so I went ahead and ran out into the game this is a 64 player map and I never used more than fourteen hundred and sixty two megabytes of RAM so I went ahead and then next took the most demanding game that people could consider right now which is the Crysis 3 beta and I was a little surprised here I was using a lot less RAM that I thought never used more than 1200 may whites alright kids so what did we learn with today's byte of tech well right off the bat if you're using a single monitor for gaming and you're not doing any sort of a triple monitor setup to gigabytes is more than enough you can have as much as 500 megabytes of your video RAM left over even while gaming at max settings at 1080p however if you are going to be using something that's higher than 1080p 1200 P 14 40 or even 1600 on like a dil UltraSharp you're gonna definitely want the higher amount of RAM the four gigabytes are even the six gigabytes offered on some AMD cards because the msaa at res higher resolutions is what's using that amount of RAM same thing if you're gonna be gaming with more than one monitor you're gonna definitely want the higher amount of VRAM but then again at that if you're gonna be using more than one monitor for gaming I definitely recommend more than one video card as well so that's it for this first installment of a little bita tick hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you next time