How much VRAM does Dolphin need?

[TheLastCat]

(05-20-2014, 02:12 PM)frozenwings Wrote: I saw Xenoblade mentioned here and just thought I'd drop a line in case it's a concern.

As someone who has put hundreds of hours into Xenoblade, playing, dumping, and retexturing and loading tons of custom textures at a time (80,000+ atm), I would seriously recommend over 1GB of vRAM, but anything over 2GB would be overkill if emulation is your only concern.

I monitor my hardware constantly (I'm paranoid) including vRAM usage, and I see it go over 1GB quite often, but never even close to 2GB. You'd probably be safe with 1.5 even, if that's even a thing. I'd shoot for 2GB to avoid any issues, however.

Should this be enough for my needs?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125510

It has 2GB VRAM, slightly less expensive and doesn't heat up as much as the R7 265 does.