AMD claims most gamers don't need more than 8GB of VRAM, after new GPU launch

AMD has stuck its head above the parapet in the increasingly fraught GPU VRAM discussion, with the company’s chief architect of gaming solutions, and former Alienware co-founder, Frank Azor, claiming that most gamers have “no use for more than 8GB” of memory on their graphics cards. The statement follows the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, which comes in both 8GB and 16GB versions, and Nvidia coming under heavy criticism for only including 8GB of memory on the GeForce RTX 5060.

As I’ve just found in my Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 review, 8GB is still just about enough memory to run many of the latest games at decent settings, as long as you don’t go above a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080. However, demanding titles such as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are already pushing VRAM requirements hard, with the RTX 5060 unable to cope with this game above the Medium graphics preset, even at 1080p, simply because it doesn’t have enough memory. With the Radeon RX 9060 XT release date coming soon, it looks as though AMD is keen to stick up for the cheaper version of its new GPU.

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