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"...limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of dedicated vRAM..."
"...just 8GB of dedicated vRAM..."
"...just 8GB..."
"...just..."
"..."
Y'all are spoiled if you don't understand how damaging that sentence is.
"Just stop being poor! Y"
to be fair, budget 8gb gpus have been a thing since the RX 480 (2016). if somone has less nowadays, id reckon its refusal to buy used, or refusal to buy something thats not nvidias sub 200$ market.
while yes, there of course are poorer regions. but even regions like brazil who have a ridiculous import tax on tech, still regularly stock the rx 580 as a "budget" gpu option.
if you go low enough, the user might as well have an igpu, which does not have the same vram limitations discrete cards have.
Seriously. If you think 8GB of VRAM is "spoiled", you fell for NVIDIA's bullshit. You could get a used 1080 Ti with 11GB VRAM for $150 and it would be significantly faster than an RX 580.
EDIT: you can downvote, but you still fell for it and got ripped off. Do some research before you make a major purchase.
The *80 part meant high end...
Edit: Yall either young or dumb. Back then there was only one 90, 290. And it was two 280 chips on one board. Amd didn't sell anything above 80. It was literally high end. Nvidia was like 10% better and 30% more expensive at high end. rx480 was literally the highest end leading flagship latest and greatest amd gpu when it came out.
Kids these days don't even know what mid tier means...
not for amd on random generations.
polaris launched at 200$, and that was their top end gou because they forgone higher end models that generation, and opted for targeting the mainstream market. the 580 was just a refresh of it that allocated more of that stock to 8gb models. it was the best selling amd gpu (by far) because they made a lot of them to essentially flood the market.
if youre judging high end by name and by market segment, you have already fell into marketing, as names are completely arbitrary.
Every 80, even the 480 that is the 580. 580 is just a higher clocked 480, and 470 is 480 with a gew cores shut down.
And how should I judge whst is high end if not by where it sits by performance, price, and how they market it.
At the time it was high end, as I said and contrary what he said.
It wasn't highest end, that was nvidia. But it was definitely, by performance, high end.
The insane prices (and power usages) now, combined with constant hypes, have made people not really objective.
1060 was a great mid card when it came out. 6gb vram. 8gb is mid going towards high end now. I play with 3D rendering for a while now and I wish 16gb was the norm, but it just isn't.
PS Those amd cards worked a bit differently then nvidias. They were harder to optimize for. And nvidia had more money to trow at driver optimizations and working with big game and game engine studios. So the public view of amd cards was worse. That's why they said later for amd gpus to "age like fine wine". When crypto came, they all bought amd cards (easier to write mining kernels since crypto is much simpler then graphics).
Doom 2016 is optimized for those gpus...
200$, even by 2016 standards was not remotely high end. so you couldnt even use it as price.
when the AMD card was on the tier of performace of the 1060, and if THAT is considered "high end" then what is the 70 class gpus. what is the 80 class gpus. what is the titan levels.
when you have 3 distinct tiers above you not even including any possible super or Ti varients of sort, how could you remotely consider it "high end" when you yourself say the 1060 is mid tier.
at a price and performance, the 480/580 is not high end back when it launched, and definitely not high end anytime soon, hence 8gb isnt "high end" in 2026 unless someone has a very short list of gpus they are willing to use. I specifically use the 580 as an example because its actively still being used in poorer regions as the budget card, that actively has 8gb.
9 years ago
Be mad at the manufacturers who royally ripped you off with overpriced e-waste that only had 4GB, 6GB, or 8GB VRAM, instead of getting mad at those who are acknowledging reality honestly. None of these 8GB cards have been worth buying for at least 5 years. 6GB was top tier 11 years ago. It is 2026.
I absolutely love the replies by people demonstrating the very privilege you're talking about. It's almost like you set a trap and they just keep walking into it.
Privilege is when you aren't coping with buyers remorse because you didn't lap up overpriced e-waste that was already obsolete
Well, yes. It's literally one of the most commonly cited examples of privilege. Vimes' Boots Theory. A person who can afford to spend £100 on boots that last 5 years spends less than a person who spends £30 on boots that last 1 year.
(A common misunderstanding being that the more expensive purchase is someone being "wise", when instead the person buying £30 boots didn't have the privilege to purchase £100 boots)
not exactly the situation, as its more like, there are boots that are 100 that last 5 years, you can buy boots that cost 30 and last 1 year, but the market has used 5 year boots that is on its 3rd year for 30, but one still opted to buy the 30/1 boot.
a tech situation irl is cars.
you can buy expensive 70k new car. you can buy affordable 20k new car. but youre also forgetting that you can buy used older 70k car for a lot less. the 20k car is not by default, better than the older car.
Except in this case there are better boots that are cheaper than the bad boots...
Looks like it basically gives the focused application highest priority for VRAM allocations and deallocations, which lower VRAM devices would be doing more often.
I’m kinda surprised this wasn’t already the default behavior, as the application the user has focused should almost always be given render priority, regardless of what it is.
Really? Right in front of my GTX 1060 3GB?
Anyone know where that wallpaper used in the article is from?
KDE Plasma default wallpaper
specifically the dark mode version. it's called "Sub-Arctic"
Yep, last couple of KDE release wallpapers (at least) have been low key really good.
I've had just the default KDE wallpaper for make months now. I think I'll have to switch to some of the Artemis shots tho. Might be cliche, but sorry kinda inevitable.