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12gb should be minimum in 2025.
I don't know, maybe it's just me having not followed AAA games graphical requirements super closely, but I feel like 8GB at $300 is a killer 1080p card these days?
I've seen reviews of the 5060 ti 8gb VS 16gb, and in some scenarios the 16gb model gets a playable FPS of 60+, while the 8gb gets ~15fps. If you have an 8gb card, that is fine, but I wouldn't buy a new one in 2025.
Do you know what resolution that is? I can see that for 4k, maybe 1440p, but if that's happening for 1080p games have gotten a lot worse than I realized.
I ran a 1070ti for quite a while (8GB), and recently upgraded to a 6700xt (12GB?). Running 1080p 144hz, I pretty much only use that extra vram when I run local LLMs or Stable Diffusion.
More is better, but having 8GB for the "entry level" cards is fine IMO. Better than the 3/4 of the entry in the 1000 series nvidia cards.
Only the 8GB model is 299, 16GB is 349. Also, depending on your region, MSRP might not be a thing.
I'll believe thats the actual price when I can add it to my cart and actually buy it.
Having the same name was okay when the lowest VRAM version actually had enough for the time.. but today a NEW 8GB GPU shouldn't exist. People will hear reviews for the bigger version and mistakenly think that's what they're buying when sorting by price.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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