Is It Time We Give Up On 8GB Graphics Cards? @eTeknix

Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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For Quite a while now games have been getting bigger and better, and this makes them harder to run to the point where we are now seeing games recommend you have more than 12GB of VRAM for even medium settings at 1080p, with some games struggling to run without at least 16GB of VRAM, so is it time we gave up on 8GB cards altogether?

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