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AMD SAYS YOU NEED 8GB OF VRAM

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IN A BLOG POST AMD pitched a 4GB Radeon RX 5500XT against an 8GB version, and has concluded that the 4GB card is increasingly obsolete for top-flight gaming. The average performance gap at 1440p is under 10 percent. However, for newer, heavy-hitting games the gap is more pronounced. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is 22% faster, and Wolfenstein II: New Colossus is 24% faster. That’s a fairly significant margin. That gap will only get wider too: The next generation of consoles will both have 16GB. Running a PC version without all that VRAM means a compromise.

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A company recommending that you buy a more expensive product is hardly surprising, but AMD does have a point, especially for AAA titles. You’ll still need a GPU that can fill that VRAM with useful work, and selling VRAM is profitable, but you certainly want to match your GPU with the right amount.

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