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[Emma Phillips]

The common misconception that “more VRAM always equals better” breaks down once you understand how modern engines actually allocate it. With texture streaming enabled, the driver doesn’t pin every texture in VRAM—it streams blocks in and out through the WDDM memory manager, using system RAM as a staging buffer and relying on compression formats like BC7/BC6H to shrink footprint. So a 12GB card with a solid streaming pipeline will often beat a 16GB card that tries to hold everything resident. For competitive titles specifically, you actually want to lower texture quality and turn streaming off in

[Emma Phillips]

Good topic to kick things off.

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[Emma Phillips]

That clarifies the execution pipeline significantly. Tested the configuration and verified the behavior.

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"Chasing the silicon lottery one megahertz at a time."

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