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expiredtDames | Staff posted Apr 28, 2026 03:42 PM
ZOTAC Twin Edge OC GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Graphics Card + 750W 80+ Gold Rosewill PSU
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People will tell you that you need 16gb or that 8gb is enough for today's games but the truth is a little more complicated.
Your Video Card will store graphics in it's VERY fast internal RAM (VRAM) and when it fills up, it will then have to use your system RAM to compensate. System ram is very slow compared to onboard VRAM which is why Video on CPU's is so slow as compared to a dedicated video card. The CPU video does not have VRAM and has to use System Ram. (this is not the only reason it's slower but a big part of it)
You video card needs more ram the larger your screen resolution is (not screen size but resolution) as it buffers multiple screens in memory and the more pixels needed, the more VRAM is needed. In addition, your Video Card needs VRAM for computing graphics.
To keep this basic... the more sophisticated the game, the more VRAM it needs.
So why does one person running Call of Duty, for example, say it runs fine in 8gb and another say it needs 12 or 16gb? Well most games either auto set or allow you to turn on and off graphic features for that game.
One person may want to turn everything to the max (which requires more VRAM) and another person will be perfectly happy turning settings down a bit and in that case, and not running at 4k LOL, you can get away with only 8gb on your Video Card and it will run just fine.
It's actually a balancing act because even if, for example, your 5060 has 16gb of VRAM, the Video Card is often not fast enough to turn everything on in most games anyway so the extra ram often goes unused.
The rule of thumb is this... the faster your Video Card, the more likely you will need more VRAM as the faster cards will allow you to take advantage of the extra VRAM more than slower cards.
For Example: Say you have a 5060 with 16GB of VRAM. That extra ram will allow you to turn the graphics on Call of Duty to the max. Everything will be stored in ultra fast VRAM but because the 5060 is slower than the TI version (or 5070,5080,5090) when you turn on all those graphical features, your framerate drops from 90 to 25. If you are fine playing at 25fps then go for it LOL but most people will turn down the graphics to get about 60fps and when you turn down the graphics, you need less VRAM.
8GB is pretty low these days so unless you are on a real strict budget, get at least 12gb if at all possible. If all you are going to be playing is Minecraft or if you are fine running games at 1920x1080 (or lower) and you don't mind having to run games in "Balanced Graphic Mode" then you can get away with a 8gb card just fine.
I hope this helped in a small way explain the controversy over video ram and what is needed vs what is wanted
P.S. The 5060 is too slow to take advantage of more that 8gb of VRAM, the 5060TI, 5070, 5080, 5090 should have 12 or 16GB as they are fast enough to use the extra VRAM (AMD seems to always have more VRAM vs Nvidia so this is often not an issue with them as much) - This is my opinion of course
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