I'm reading on Videocardz.com that AMD is planning to launch beefed up R9 290x cards with 8gb VRAM to combat the new GTX 980.
 
An interesting comment at the bottom of the article is that Nvidia is also planning to beef up GTX 980 to 8gb to counteract this move.
 
Is this even possible? 290x has a 512 bus and the 980 only has 256 bus 
 
Source: videocardz.com/53912/msi-radeon-r9-290x-gaming-8gb-pictured
 
Or do you think it could have anything to do with GM200? I've been watching gamedebate and their prediction for the 980 Ti and the Titan X, both having predicted 8gb VRAM
 
game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?gid=2490&graphics=GeForce%20GTX%20980%20Ti%208GB
game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?gid=2492&graphics=GeForce%20GTX%20Titan%20X
 
I would believe videocardz waaaay before gamedebate personally, but this news and speculation is fascinating 
 
I still can't post links...what gives? And sorry, I didn't see the other topic already made. I'm having a really bad day

Hehe, thanks, that first part made me smile.
 
I really like rumor mills when it comes to GPU's. It gets exciting. I'm just wondering what in the world the average consumer would need that much VRAM for. The only games that are going off the charts currently for ram usage are console ports. Perhaps these GPU manufacturers know something about the next evolution of PC gaming that we don't.
 
But this seems so quick to upgrade to double the vram for a new card. Didn't it take a really long time for the 780's to upgrade?

I'm sorry for people who bought last years cards with 2GB.
Example GTX770. That was not fair from NVIDIA side.
GTX770 should came with 4GB reference and NVIDIA knew what will happen with games.
Even our 3GB is on edge literally, with 2GB they can play some games on medium settings.
But whole that series was mistake and from performance side and from video memory side, and GTX770 and GTX780 and AMD destroy them with price and with performance. NVIDIA than launch better card but some people are collateral damage and they pay 400-450e for GTX770 2GB.
One year later GTX780Ti cost same price on Newegg.
AMD think smarter, they launch both model with 4GB, R9-290 and R9-290X and leave space for 1-2 models with 8GB just in case.
With 3GB we are safe for now, just to avoid grey unchangeable options in games.
 

No answer from side of dual card because Titan Z is not answer, that's mirror of NVIDIA company. 
They drop price in moment when GTX980 SLI is 20% stronger than Titan Z.
Duplicate of their politic, weaker and more expensive. But NVIDIA have answer from same money.
That's two GTX980 in SLI are better than R9-295X 20% and use almost half less power.
R9-295X have and hidden problems, they should make better reference board and VRM, problems with drivers,
some games not recognize second chip and must used Mantle instead DirectX, somewhere and that not help. They will fix that 2020.
Card have some terrible long tubes and I can bet gaming is nightmare in games made with PhysX from lag side and micro stuttering even with PhysX disabled from other side NVIDIA much better deal with games made from AMD.
AMD didn't make nice dual card after ATI 5970. That was really monster, I didn't have money in that time because of that I bought HD5870 2GB but I tried Crysis that was same as one card.

I don't find the search bar to always be helpful to be honest. It pulls really random threads, with the content of the thread rather than the title of the thread.

In before the lock. 

I'm sorry XrayMan, you can delete the topic since there are so many.
 
I'll do more searching before I post next time 

Miko Ryukudo
I'm sorry XrayMan, you can delete the topic since there are so many.
 
I'll do more searching before I post next time 

It's ok. I got my point across. That's the only thing I wanted to do. Once too many of these pop up, I'll start locking as duplicates. The thread can continue.           =)