PSA: Avoid GPUs with 8GB of VRAM in 2025
They're not enough for today's standards
Not too long ago, 8GB of VRAM was considered more than adequate for graphics cards tailored toward gaming. Before I bought the RTX 3090 in early 2021, I had a GTX 1070 laptop with 8GB of VRAM, which could handle almost any game I threw at it without issues. But that was because I played games at 1080p resolution. While 1080p displays are still pretty common, 1440p and 4K monitors have become very popular among PC enthusiasts in recent years.
