Can you post some content to go with this link?

The RTX 30xx series uses VRAM compression to reduce VRAM usage by 20-40%.  Just throwing it out there.
 
I don't know how a 8 GB demonstration for a 10 GB card which is able to store 12 to 14 GB is entirely useful or relevant.

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The RTX 30xx series uses VRAM compression to reduce VRAM usage by 20-40%.  Just throwing it out there.
 
I don't know how a 8 GB demonstration for a 10 GB card which is able to store 12 to 14 GB is entirely useful or relevant.

First I've heard of this, can you point to more information? 
 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/introducing-rtx-30-series-graphics-cards/
 

...All this tech, along with driver optimizations, memory compression techniques, and other NVIDIA Ampere architecture enhancements, makes GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards the absolute fastest available....

 
It's called Tensor Memory Compression and is a new feature of the RTX 30xx series.  The "20-40%" is an unconfirmed rumor as far as quantity is concerned, but it is a confirmed fact that memory compression will exist.

And here I was, under the impression that a game requiring more VRAM than you had would cause MASSIVE FPS drops (to single digits) while the game loaded textures from RAM/the system pagefile along with the game crashing with an "out of memory" error.

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vulcan1978

ty_ger07
The RTX 30xx series uses VRAM compression to reduce VRAM usage by 20-40%.  Just throwing it out there.
 
I don't know how a 8 GB demonstration for a 10 GB card which is able to store 12 to 14 GB is entirely useful or relevant.

First I've heard of this, can you point to more information? 
 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/introducing-rtx-30-series-graphics-cards/
 

...All this tech, along with driver optimizations, memory compression techniques, and other NVIDIA Ampere architecture enhancements, makes GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards the absolute fastest available....

 
It's called Tensor Memory Compression and is a new feature of the RTX 30xx series.  The "20-40%" is an unconfirmed rumor as far as quantity is concerned, but it is a confirmed fact that memory compression will exist.

Also RTX I/O skips your CPU to reduce CPU load when loading assets from your SSD like the XBox Velocity Architecture does. Which can mitigate potential performance hits from that compression.

It would take games made to make use of it but yes it should be very good especially with the speed we are seeing of some of the modern SSD drives.
 
As for the issue as a whole the 3080 is going to be the card for 4K gaming for the next couple years. A game that uses more video memory then it has will not go over well with gamers. In fact I would say a 3070 with it's 8GB of memory is going to really be what a game will need to run at 4K on without maxing out the video memory.

This is the main thing that is turning me off on the 3080. I already max out VRAM with a 1080 Ti. I'm using 80% scaling at 4K on MSFS2020 and still peg the VRAM. Going to 10GB just seems like is it going to limit performance sooner than it should. I like a couple of years of decent performance, once the model I have loses the crown.

HeavyHemi

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vulcan1978

ty_ger07
The RTX 30xx series uses VRAM compression to reduce VRAM usage by 20-40%.  Just throwing it out there.
 
I don't know how a 8 GB demonstration for a 10 GB card which is able to store 12 to 14 GB is entirely useful or relevant.

First I've heard of this, can you point to more information? 
 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/introducing-rtx-30-series-graphics-cards/
 

...All this tech, along with driver optimizations, memory compression techniques, and other NVIDIA Ampere architecture enhancements, makes GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards the absolute fastest available....

 
It's called Tensor Memory Compression and is a new feature of the RTX 30xx series.  The "20-40%" is an unconfirmed rumor as far as quantity is concerned, but it is a confirmed fact that memory compression will exist.

Also RTX I/O skips your CPU to reduce CPU load when loading assets from your SSD like the XBox Velocity Architecture does. Which can mitigate potential performance hits from that compression.

It would take games made to make use of it but yes it should be very good especially with the speed we are seeing of some of the modern SSD drives.
 
As for the issue as a whole the 3080 is going to be the card for 4K gaming for the next couple years. A game that uses more video memory then it has will not go over well with gamers. In fact I would say a 3070 with it's 8GB of memory is going to really be what a game will need to run at 4K on without maxing out the video memory.

This is the main thing that is turning me off on the 3080. I already max out VRAM with a 1080 Ti. I'm using 80% scaling at 4K on MSFS2020 and still peg the VRAM. Going to 10GB just seems like is it going to limit performance sooner than it should. I like a couple of years of decent performance, once the model I have loses the crown.

VRAM allocated != VRAM used. The only ways to check for an actual VRAM usage are comparing cards with different VRAM amounts and via in-game metrics.

Is the memory compression only on nvme ssd or will it use standard sata ssd as well? 

Omoeba

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vulcan1978

ty_ger07
The RTX 30xx series uses VRAM compression to reduce VRAM usage by 20-40%.  Just throwing it out there.
 
I don't know how a 8 GB demonstration for a 10 GB card which is able to store 12 to 14 GB is entirely useful or relevant.

First I've heard of this, can you point to more information? 
 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/introducing-rtx-30-series-graphics-cards/
 

...All this tech, along with driver optimizations, memory compression techniques, and other NVIDIA Ampere architecture enhancements, makes GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards the absolute fastest available....

 
It's called Tensor Memory Compression and is a new feature of the RTX 30xx series.  The "20-40%" is an unconfirmed rumor as far as quantity is concerned, but it is a confirmed fact that memory compression will exist.

Also RTX I/O skips your CPU to reduce CPU load when loading assets from your SSD like the XBox Velocity Architecture does. Which can mitigate potential performance hits from that compression.

It would take games made to make use of it but yes it should be very good especially with the speed we are seeing of some of the modern SSD drives.
 
As for the issue as a whole the 3080 is going to be the card for 4K gaming for the next couple years. A game that uses more video memory then it has will not go over well with gamers. In fact I would say a 3070 with it's 8GB of memory is going to really be what a game will need to run at 4K on without maxing out the video memory.

This is the main thing that is turning me off on the 3080. I already max out VRAM with a 1080 Ti. I'm using 80% scaling at 4K on MSFS2020 and still peg the VRAM. Going to 10GB just seems like is it going to limit performance sooner than it should. I like a couple of years of decent performance, once the model I have loses the crown.

VRAM allocated != VRAM used. The only ways to check for an actual VRAM usage are comparing cards with different VRAM amounts and via in-game metrics.

Yes, exactly. Gamers Nexus explained this recently, although I don't remember which specific video it was.
Games will sometimes allocate a ton of VRAM and not use it all.
I've never seen a game actually use all my VRAM, ever.
It's the similar as PCIe 3.0 vs PCIe 4.0 in a sense. The X16 PCIe lanes don't get fully saturated making it a non issue.
VRAM doesn't get fully saturated either.

Where VRAM matters is more so Editing, Encoding, Compute Tasks, etc.
For gaming they have to scale to consoles so they wind up limiting what they may use otherwise.