More and more evidence piles up that 8 GB VRAM are simply not enough, even for 1080p gaming.
It is said that SAMSUNG', MICRON' and SK HYNIX' 3GB GDDR7 chips will be ready for mass production by the beginning of the next year and NVIDIA will release their Refresh models using 3 GB GDDR7 chips, instead of the current 2 GB ones. That's a 50% increase in VRAM: 8GB VRAM -> 12 GB VRAM, 12 GB VRAM -> 18 GB VRAM, 16GB VRAM -> 24GB VRAM, and it would be nice if the GeForce 5090' 32GB VRAM would become 48 GB VRAM (it's not necessary to replace the 5090, as its 32 GB VRAM are enough for most games) (would allow for Qwen3-32B-Q8_0.gguf (34.8 GB) or Qwen3-32B-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf (39.5 GB) to fully fit into the VRAM (to fully fit a LLM into the VRAM is important for the maximum tokens per second speed)). Just wait if you can.
The 5090 Laptop GPU chip is a desktop 5080 chip (256bit), but using 3 GB GDDR7 chips and more notebooks and desktop GPUs will utilize 3 GB GDDR7 by 2026.
QuotesRGB Coverage
56.3 %
Display P3 Coverage
37.7 %
WTH!? gg