Quoteand 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM
After years of proofs that 8 GB VRAM are not enough anymore, and things getting worse as games demand more VRAM (or hosting your favorite local AI / LLM), VALVE comes out with 8 GB VRAM..
Sorry VALVE, but to be able to actually call it custom silicon, you could have at the very least tried to make it at least 10 GB VRAM.
Here is how (and each solution would make it more expensive, but 8GB VRAM is just a no-go) (current hw: 128-bit memory bus width GPU chip / 32-bit per GDDR5 chip = 4 chips, 2 GB each):
- Using higher GDDR6 density: 2.25 GB per chip * 4 chips = 10 GB VRAM (uncommon density)
or
- Using higher GDDR7 density: 2.25 GB per chip * 4 chips = 10 GB VRAM (since GDDR7 is the successor, maybe the memory manufacturers would be "kind" enough to make such densities)
or
- Using higher GDDR7 density: 3 GB per chip * 4 chips = 12 GB VRAM (3 GB chips are already being used in the 5090 Laptop, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_RTX_50_series#Mobile) (and will be used in the SUPER refresh GPUs in 2026)
or
- Using a wider memory bus width: 32-bit per chip * 5 chips, 2 GB each = 160-bit memory bus width GPU chip (this would be a different class GPU, one that would be approx. 33% faster (1.33 = 160-bit/128-bit) than the current one
Quote from: Only 8 GB VRAM on November 17, 2025, 09:29:42would make it more expensive
Well, you should know by now that valve aren't aiming for high end yet and trying to keep costs down.
So case closed, I guess?
It has nothing to do with high-end, with only 8 GB VRAM, more and more games become a stutter show, even at low settings: youtube.com/watch?v=ric7yb1VaoA ("Gaming Laptops are in Trouble - VRAM Testing w/ @Hardwareunboxed")
Quote from: Only 8GB VRAM big mistake on November 24, 2025, 09:39:49It has nothing to do with high-end, with only 8 GB VRAM, more and more games become a stutter show, even at low settings: youtube.com/watch?v=ric7yb1VaoA ("Gaming Laptops are in Trouble - VRAM Testing w/ @Hardwareunboxed")
1/10 ragebait.
Quote from: Only 8GB VRAM big mistake on November 24, 2025, 09:39:49It has nothing to do with high-end,
You're still not addressing the core issue.
Provide an example of a mobile non Nvidia off the shelf dgpu part that comes with more than 8 GB of VRAM? Has to be reasonably priced, so no halo's involved.
I'll wait.
There's the 7800M/7900M I guess but that's a 200W part and they would likely have trouble cooling that in such a small form factor. It's also in much less supply and expensive (aka read as: 'high end').
You can complain all you want about it but it still doesn't change the facts. There are no real alternatives for the price bracket and SFF they are marketing to.