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News PC gamers appear to be rejecting 8GB graphics cards — now available for a discount

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8GB Nvidia and AMD graphics card prices are plummeting, as PC gamers demand more VRAM​

PC gamers appear to be voting with their wallets, as the prices of 8GB AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPUs drop.

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8GB Nvidia and AMD graphics card prices are plummeting, as PC gamers demand more VRAM

PC gamers appear to be voting with their wallets, as the prices of 8GB AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPUs drop.
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in earlier times – with much shorter innovation cycles back then – graphics cards often came with more memory than necessary, as the next generation of games was always considered. This apparently hasn't happened with the new 8 GB graphics cards for 2022-2025, otherwise they wouldn't have been released (in this form). ​

Survey result for: What amount of VRAM would be recommended for a new purchase in 2025?
  • - at 1080p, a majority of 52.5% chose 12 GB
  • - at 1440p, a majority of 60.4% chose 16 GB
  • - at 2160p, a majority of 43.7% chose 20 GB

Survey analysis: What amount of VRAM would be recommended for a new purchase in 2025?
8 GB VRAM12 GB VRAM16 GB VRAM20 GB VRAM24+ GB VRAM
Full HD / 1080p8.0%52.5%39.5%--
WQHD /1440p0.7%12.4%60.4%26.5%-
4K / 2160p-1.1%30.3%43.7%24.9%
Source: 3DCenter survey from May/June 2025 , participants: 1338


Umfrage-Auswertung: Welche VRAM-Menge für eine Neukauf-Empfehlung im Jahr 2025? | 3DCenter.org

Mittels einer Umfrage von diesem Mai ging es um das Thema der "richtigen" VRAM-Bestückung, im Sinne der Umfrage speziell gedacht zugunsten einer Neukauf-Empfehlung für das Jahr 2025. Zur Auswahl standen dabei drei Gruppen an VRAM-Bestückungen
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marees said:
That card can do with some competition.
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iPhone users buy new iPhones. There is no competition. And it's a safe bet the bulk of its sales volume comes from prebuilts. Tech tubers show them collecting dust at MicroCenters.
 
The biggest problem will be laptops.

Gaming laptops are all stuck with 6 to 8GB VRAM because nvidia rules alone and everything up to the 5070 Laptop is paired with 8GB or less.

There's no kinder way to put this: the overwhelming majority of laptop dGPU gamers are screwed. And people hoping for neural texture rendering to come save the day should think twice. Not only are those models going to occupy VRAM as well, they're way too compute-heavy for a GB206 and lower.
 
8gb vram in 2026?

I wish they'd gone with the (strix halo) max+ 388

SolidQ said:
Why not RDNA4? and only 8GB vram?
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coercitiv said:
What a cute little PLEX SERVER!!! 😀

Oh, this is the gaming forum. Only 8GB?! Booooo!
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jpiniero said:
The 5060 seems to be selling OK.
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Nvidia needs to step it up, they fact you can still buy an 8gb card from them in 2025 that's not some super budget $150 card's wild to me. Even crazier some of their 8gb cards are more expensive than an AMD or Intel card that perform as well and will have twice as much memory.

With that said, I literally just ordered a 5070 a couple of hours ago. I can't believe I paid $595 for a card that has 12gb of ram. 12's a lot more than 8, but 12 should be the minimum now for anything that's above $300 and anything $500+ should have 16. And according to Redditors, my new 12gb card will be just about completely unusable in 4 years. I think they exaggerated on there.

The 16gb version of the almost $600 card I bought is $800.

NTMBK said:
My first 3D card had an 8MB framebuffer, what kind of supercomputer were you using!
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Mine was an STB Nitro 3D GX, which was either 2 or 4. 8MB would have absolutely blown my mind.
 
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5070 Ti has 16GB though, did you mean that, or are you thinking of the 5070?
 
Some good news for 8GB users for a change. Monster Hunter Wilds has a mod that actually works to use high textures without stuttering. The trade off is it uses more disk space, but I think most will happily take that trade.

 
Shmee said:
5070 Ti has 16GB though, did you mean that, or are you thinking of the 5070?
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I bought the OC version, which are what, just slightly overclocked vanilla cards that you have done yourself with MSI Afterburner right? The Ti's a big step up, but it also costs $200 more. Since I was originally planning to get a $249 Arc B580, I figure I was already doing too much with a $594 card, so the $789 Ti version was no dice. I saw some almost $400 5060's with 8gb, Nvidia really charges whatever the hell they want. 8GB's still decent for a lot of people, I looked up the Steam user survey and 53% are still at 1080p. But $379 for a card with 8GB is such a bad deal. Hell, $595 for the one I bought with 12 is a bad deal. But at least it should still play games well in 4 years.
 
marees said:
Make sure you buy the 2tb steam cube model over the 0.5tb version ??
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You can just store the games on USB or microSD storage and swap them in and out of the nvme. Most already have those, and it is probably going to be much cheaper solution than the markup on the Gabecube.
jpiniero said:
nVidia's not going to raise prices at the low end but they will make the value worse and worse.
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Putting on my flame suit for this one; The 5050 is not a bad value at $250. As I've argued repeatedly, you have to adjust for inflation. Which has been really bad the last few years. Most of the complaints about pricing = old man complaining about a loaf a bread being a dime when they were young energy.
 
Recently I have seen an ASRock 9070XT on sale for $599. Seems that would be a good deal, even compared to MSRP at launch, so there are decent deals out there I guess/hope.
 
Gideon said:
As do I, but I guess it targets the 300-400$ price point, (otherwise I really see no point at all in the GabeCube).

max+ 388 would probably mean 800$+
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Also, 32GB LPDDR5X is probably quite a bit more expensive than 2*8GB SODIMM DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 nowadays. I think Valve was aiming for $400 here (in line with the Steam Deck), but with the current DRAM situation this may have to change at the last minute.

I could see Valve launching a Gabecube Pro with the 388 for $800-900 still in 2026, though. It should be some 50% faster at ~120W TDP, without VRAM limitations.
Or if they only release a Pro in 2027, they can go with a Medusa Premium/Halo.

Though ideally, a Pro version would use a Navi 44 with 16GB. And they wouldn't even need to revamp the cooling. That massive heatsink is probably good for 250W without breaking a sweat.
 
Gideon said:
Yeah it really is a shame there are no Navi 4x mobile GPUs. Would work well for other mini-pc's laptops as well
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No choice other than waiting for medusa premium (until 2027)

Medusa premium would replace the $900+ handhelds today

If it goes into an NUC then you can subtract the display & controller costs

& then you can cut the distribution costs too if Valve (or Microsoft) directly sell it.

Effectively series S price (for next gen 2027 series S performance)

Once launched in 2027 it would make the gabecube 1 redundant

I am guessing AMD has tons of 7600m to dispose off right now.
 
marees said:
No choice other than waiting for medusa premium (until 2027)

Medusa premium would replace the $900+ handhelds today

If it goes into an NUC then you can subtract the display & controller costs

& then you can cut the distribution costs too if Valve (or Microsoft) directly sell it.

Effectively series S price (for next gen 2027 series S performance)

Once launched in 2027 it would make the gabecube 1 redundant

I am guessing AMD has tons of 7600m to dispose off right now.
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Medusa Preminum probably gonna cost more than the current setup right now.
 
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