Tom's has always been intel and nvidia biased, so while I can't be sure and am certainly not making any absolute claims here... I wouldn't put it past them to cherry pick some data to show 'ayymd bad'. They are barely better than userbenchmark.
8gb still great for most games but not for newer games. 12gb is a minimum for most 'new/modern' games. 16gb is an ideal and probably be worth till 2028. * but yeah, lower class should be having 12gb vram as a standard from now on, considering newer gen meant to be for newer games, should add more vram if it meant to be modern aaa games.
According to DRAMExchange, GDDR6 spot price as of this week is $2.3 for 8 Gbit (=1 GByte) so multiply that by 2 for more complex PCB and components + margins and you arrive at around $5 retail price for 1GB VRAM. If Intel can offer B580 with 12GB VRAM at $250, 16GB (if the GPU had 256-bit memory bus and didn't cost more than its current form) could've been offered at around $270, which they may have felt was too close in price to the competition for no immediate benefit over 12GB.
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Tom's has always been intel and nvidia biased, so while I can't be sure and am certainly not making any absolute claims here... I wouldn't put it past them to cherry pick some data to show 'ayymd bad'. They are barely better than userbenchmark.
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I dont think in the year 2025 12 gb is a Minimum for full hd.
Edit: ment 8gb is not the Minimum, but 12gb
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16gb should be the new standard, don't care what you believe.
8gb still great for most games but not for newer games.
12gb is a minimum for most 'new/modern' games.
16gb is an ideal and probably be worth till 2028.
* but yeah, lower class should be having 12gb vram as a standard from now on, considering newer gen meant to be for newer games, should add more vram if it meant to be modern aaa games.
According to DRAMExchange, GDDR6 spot price as of this week is $2.3 for 8 Gbit (=1 GByte) so multiply that by 2 for more complex PCB and components + margins and you arrive at around $5 retail price for 1GB VRAM.
If Intel can offer B580 with 12GB VRAM at $250, 16GB (if the GPU had 256-bit memory bus and didn't cost more than its current form) could've been offered at around $270, which they may have felt was too close in price to the competition for no immediate benefit over 12GB.