Does The Last of Us ship your gaming PC into a zombie-like shuffle? Do the advanced Unreal options in Fortnite make you seek for the closest lovingly-rendered bush to cover in? Do you watch movies of the new Overdrive Mode in Cyberpunk on YouTube at 4K/60, as a result of you understand really attempting to run it in your {hardware} could be a violation of your house’s hearth insurance coverage coverage? If so, then AMD would love a phrase: It thinks the answer is a brand new graphics card, with much more video reminiscence than the competitors.

In a put up cheekily titled “are YOU an enthusiast?”, AMD factors out that the newest PC video games ceaselessly require 8GB of VRAM to satisfy the advisable specs for 1080p gaming, and 12GB of 16GB to run at 1440p or 4K, respectively. And wouldn’t you understand it, AMD’s Radeon graphics playing cards are likely to beat Nvidia’s GeForce playing cards on the similar value, no less than once you slim the scope of comparability to onboard VRAM alone.

A handful of comparisons present the benefits in Radeon playing cards at roughly the identical value degree: The $580 Radeon RX 6800 XT has 16GB of RAM versus the $640 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti’s 8GB, the $1000 Radeon RX 7900 XTX has 24GB of RAM versus the $1200 GeForce RTX 4080’s 16GB, and so forth. A choice of benchmarks in widespread video games reveals a beneficiant tilt in the direction of AMD {hardware}.

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AMD’s promotional put up comes out on the day that Nvidia’s RTX 4070 officially launches. While the put up doesn’t provide any direct comparisons, Nvidia’s new $600, 12GB card is positioned to compete performance-wise with both the RX 6800 or the RX 6800 XT, each of which provide the identical 12GB of video reminiscence. However, these playing cards are 2.5 years outdated — AMD doesn’t have a 7000-series card going for anyplace close to that value degree, no less than formally. We’ll have to attend for AMD to spherical out its latest choices for a extra direct comparability.

And talking of direct comparisons, it’s telling that AMD is making an attraction to avid gamers’ sense of worth…however hasn’t talked about the darkish horse on this race. Intel’s Arc collection of discrete GPUs continues to be contemporary, in its very first technology, and leaving lots to be desired when it comes to software program extras. But what it’s completely nailing is worth, offering the 8GB Arc A770 for high-end 1080p games at about the identical value as a brand new RX 6650 XT or RTX 3060. Glass homes, AMD.

We lately dug deep into whether or not 8GB of VRAM is sufficient in 2023 on PCWorld’s Full Nerd podcast. Grab a beverage and take a look at the dialogue beneath!