AMD claims that PC gamers don’t need more than 8GB of VRAM

AMD claims that PC gamers do not have use for more than 8GB of VRAM. I wish they were right, but a ton of PC titles actually need more than that to be able to run smoothly on the highest settings. In many cases, these games actually crash due to gamers lacking the needed VRAM to buffer all the high resolution textures. At the same time, do we really need all of this? In an ideal world, newer games can still run in decades old hardware, only with lower graphics settings. Back in the day this was true, and you could play plenty of new titles on what PC elitists call sub par hardware.

AMD claims should be a norm

The entry price point to get a PC to play all new titles should be lower, we are suffering from some insane price hikes lately, and the amount of power you get for that is pretty low. This is called shrinkflation, and it is affecting every aspect of our lives, especially in the hardware sector. Nvidia is focused on pumping out broken products for premium prices, and people are willing to actually pay a ton of that despite their GPUs being a time bomb.

AMD is not an innocent company, they have also decided to jump the “AI” trend train, trying to appeal to the wrong group of people. What AMD claims seems to be merely a way to detract the republic of gamers, to tell them that they don’t need us anymore. The focus is on expending tons of money on hardware to play slop, which in the end makes absolutely no sense unless you are insane.

It is important to have a decent PC however, but you can do so with components from around 2020 or below, as long as you pack an RX6600, and an AM4 CPU you can play all the games that are worth it. No need to bother upgrading anymore, ever.