Having more VRAM is good, but it does nothing for a weak GPU or PC ...

Insufficient VRAM is a plague, but things haven't gone out of control yet ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's Neural Texture Compression (NTC) combined with Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing 1.2 significantly reduces VRAM usage by up to 90%, improving game performance and lowering hardware costs.

Graphics Cards Resident Evil Requiem is one of the few games to use GPU data decompression but it's a bit hit and miss as to whether your GPU will ever actually use it Hardware Valve clarifies what's ...

The VRAM crisis is complicated by a technological counter-force too: AI upscaling and Frame Generation. This introduces a fascinating paradox, a tug-of-war for memory space on the GPU. On the one hand ...

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Are 8 GB GPUs still enough for gaming in 2026? It's a good question, and one I've decided to put many, many hours of testing into in order to come up with a g ...

An Intel GPU partner is reportedly working on a custom Intel Arc B580 graphics card that chains two of the gaming GPUs together, like the old SLI graphics cards of yesteryear. Not only that, but it ...

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 ...

If you are looking for a high-end GPU with plenty of video memory, the RX 7900XT from XFX is currently a great deal, as the graphics card is now available at an all-time low price. The Radeon RX 7000 ...

The consequence of VRAM starvation is not just an inconvenience; it is a complete and often fatal collapse of frame time consistency, turning what should be a powerful card into a stuttering mess.