199. Death of 8GB GPUs, RX 7600 XT VRAM, AI Taking Jobs, Ray Tracing | UE5 Developer

An Unreal Engine 5 dev joins to discuss what’s happening with VRAM usage in modern games.
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0:00 Welcoming our "Half-Anonymous" UE5 Developer
10:05 The State of Modding in Modern Games, SDKs and Gatekeeping
16:51 How AI is Changing Game Development, Evolution of Unreal Engine
29:36 Will AI replace Game Developer Jobs?
44:16 What do Developers need more VRAM for?
47:35 Are 8GB Graphics Cards running out of time?
1:03:20 What do Nvidia Engineers think about 8GB GPUs? What about RTX IO?
1:09:00 What Minimum Specs do Devs wish they could mandate?
1:16:43 What happens when Devs drop PS4? What do they wish Min Specs were?
1:23:40 Should AMD launch the RX 7600 XT with 16GB?
1:30:07 When will Ray Tracing become standard in most games?
1:42:42 Software vs Hardware Accelerated Lumen, UE5 TSR vs DLSS & FSR
1:50:26 E-Cores for gaming, Unreal Engine Monopoly, Godot
1:59:23 What's the next Big Tech to advance Gaming?

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