Published Apr 25, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh). At this point, there's little that hasn't been said about the significant drawbacks of GPUs with 8GB of VRAM . These bottom-of-the-barrel cards are disguised as affordable performers, but they are easily beaten by AAA titles even at 1080p. Sure, countless gamers don't daily AAA titles, but the era of 8GB VRAM should have ended long ago. When smaller competitors like Intel can offer 12GB of VRAM on budget models, what's stopping Nvidia and AMD from doing at least that? However, GPU manufacturers will always do what's best for business, and skimping on VRAM seems to be working well for them.…