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Popcorn12
Journeyman III
Friday

AMD using more VRAM than NVIDIA

When I play Watch Dogs 2 in the settings menu it reports around 2.5GB of VRAM usage, however afterburner reports 3.8-4.0 GB of VRAM usage. My old NVIDIA card used around 3GB. I have a the RX 6500 XT and I'm afraid it's PCIE lanes are bottlenecking it since I use PCIE 3.0. Any answers appreciated.

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pendragon1
Adept I
Friday

yes you are bottlenecking it because its lanes are limited to 8x so its at pcie 3 x8 BUT i dont think thats going to increase the vram usage, the card may just allocate more. bigger question would be how does it play?

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Popcorn12
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Journeyman III
Friday

It plays alright but moving my mouse towards the city maxes out gpu (it didnt max out my 1050 TI) completely freezes the game for a sec or drops the frames to 8-21FPS.

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