AMD declared in 2020 that 4GB of VRAM was insufficient for contemporary GPUs. In 2022, the business will release a GPU with 4GB of VRAM.
AMD is releasing a new GPU with 4GB of VRAM today, something the firm mocked just a few years ago. PC games are becoming more and more demanding with each passing year. Textures become clearer, ray tracing becomes more realistic, and developers can jam more information onto the screen at once. This contributes to games feeling more realistic than ever before, providing that the appropriate hardware is available.
GPUs are an important part of this process, including a powerful CPU and plenty of memory. They’re the key component that brings a game’s images to life, and there are numerous factors to consider when purchasing one, like the number of cores, clock speed, memory type, and so on. Another consideration is the amount of VRAM available. The more VRAM on a GPU, the more graphical data it can access, resulting in quicker frame rates and better-looking games. VRAM levels have continuously increased, with 4GB in 2022 as the absolute minimum requirement.
All of this brings us to today’s news. AMD released the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU on January 19. On the surface, it appears to be a simple card. It has a 6nm architecture with 16 compute units and can deliver 108 and 78 frames per second in Resident Evil Village and Halo Infinite, respectively. It does, however, only have 4GB of VRAM. Not only is just a paltry sum by 2022 standards, but it’s also something AMD trashed a couple of years ago, as KitGuru pointed out.
AMD claimed that 4GB was insufficient for today’s games
An AMD blog post from 2020 included a very interesting comment from Radeon marketing specialist Adit Bhutani, according to KitGuru’s sleuthing. Bhutani said the following to promote AMD’s new cards with 6 and 8GB of VRAM: “AMD is the market leader in providing high VRAM graphics solutions to gamers across its entire product line. At a same entry level pricing range, competing competitors offer up to 4GB of VRAM, which is clearly insufficient for today’s games.”
Yes, you are accurate. AMD stated flatly in 2020 that 4GB of VRAM was insufficient for gaming. In 2022, the business will release a new GPU with 4GB of VRAM. It doesn’t get any more amusing than that. After the news leaked, AMD swiftly erased the old blog post, but it has subsequently been restored to its former state, according to The Verge.
As bad as this looks for AMD, it’s far from the first time the company has had to backtrack on a statement awkwardly. Samsung has a history of doing things like this. Shortly after its release, Samsung ran a full-fledged ad campaign ridiculing the iPhone X’s notch. After a few years, Samsung released the Galaxy S10, which cut out the selfie camera. Samsung has also mocked Apple for removing the headphone port and not including chargers with its phones, both of which it has now adopted. In the end, this isn’t a huge deal for AMD. The RX 6500 XT will be released, people will buy it, and that will be the end of it. Even yet, it’s always amusing when something like this occurs. The internet is everlasting, especially when people seek to hold businesses accountable for overzealous comments.
