VRAM — video memory — is what your graphics card uses to store textures, lighting data, shadows, reflections, and all the other visual assets that make your PC games look the way they should. That ...
When Sony's masterpiece The Last of Us Part 1 appeared on the humble PC two years ago, I hoped it would become a watershed moment in the history of console ports. Well, it was, but for all the wrong ...
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 ...
There’s no such thing as too much RAM—ask anyone who’s trying to find a good deal on an Nvidia graphics card. But you might not need to drop a month’s rent on a new GPU to free up some VRAM! Just wait ...
Buying a graphics card in 2025 with just 8GB of VRAM is a decision that can quickly backfire. What was once standard for midrange GPUs has now become a major bottleneck in modern games and certain ...
While Nvidia is praised for all the advancements it makes in terms of ray tracing performance and AI upscaling improvements, the company has faced criticism for the amount of VRAM or the lack thereof ...
Nvidia has tweaked the latest version of DLSS so that it eats less of your graphics card memory than before, potentially giving your Nvidia GeForce graphics card a little more room to breathe. The ...
A hot potato: Although Nvidia has caught the most flak for continuing to sell mid-range $400+ graphics cards with just 8GB of VRAM, AMD has also persisted with this approach in the budget-performance ...
TL;DR: By 2025, over 8GB of VRAM will be essential for high-end 1440p and 4K gaming and local AI workloads. NVIDIA and Stability AI optimized Stable Diffusion 3.5 with FP8 quantization and TensorRT, ...
TL;DR: NVIDIA expands Project G-Assist, enabling its AI-powered software to run on RTX GPUs with as little as 6GB VRAM. This update enhances accessibility and performance for users with mid-range ...
In a nutshell: A modder recently upgraded an 11-year-old Nvidia GTX 970 from 4GB to 8GB VRAM to see if the additional memory could improve its performance. The modified card not only outpaced the ...
For many months, AMD offered a special treat to enthusiasts wishing to run AI chatbot LLMs on their PCs: configurable VRAM that significantly improved performance. Now Intel can say the same. Bob ...