- AMD has received a great deal of flak for having made an 8 GB version of RX 9060 XT
- A Hold Red Exec has claimed this VRAM -Loadout is fine for 1080p
- Some players do not remain convinced and also feel AMD has poorly named this new par 8 GB and 16 GB GPS
AMD has shot back on critics after being under fire for producing a version of its newly revealed RX 9060 XT graphics card that has an 8 GB load of video RAM (VRAM).
RX 9060 XT was revealed earlier this week in both 16 GB and 8 GB versions. The latter causes anger as some claim it is not enough for modern PC games and there are other concerns here as well.
Michael Quesada, who runs a Spanish YouTube channel on the topic of PC games, sent an indignant post on X asking why AMD (and NVIDIA) continued to make GPUs with 8 GB of VRAM, and asked how it is justified in 2025.
Videocardz noted that Frank Azor, AMD’s head of consumer and gaming marketing, was drawn to answer as you can see below.
The majority of players still play at 1080p and do not need more than 8 GB of memory. Most played games ww are mostly eSports games. We wouldn’t build it if there wasn’t a market for it. If 8 GB is not right for you, there are 16 GB. Same GPU, no compromise, just memory …May 22, 2025
Azor observes that most players are still running with 1080p resolution and therefore do not need more than 8 GB of VRAM. AMD Exec notes that the most popular games are eSports titles, which are less demanding and that Team Red would not make an 8 GB graphics card if there was no requirement.
Azor concludes: “If 8 GB is not right for you, there is 16 GB. Same GPU, no compromise, just memory options.”
Analysis: No compromise but lots of cynicism
To be fair to Azor, there is some truth to what the performer is saying here. Certainly for a more relaxed level of games as well as eSports titles built for fluid images in general, as it is more important than graphic bells and whistles for competitive players, 8 GB is probably enough.
As others point out, it’s not enough for all PC games, even at 1080p resolution. Although fine -tuning of graphics details appropriately and make some compromises, you can generally come by, although there are remarkable exceptions, even at 1080p.
But despite the noise of 8GB, just isn’t enough in these days camp on social media – and it’s a fair old racket, makes no mistake – some of the negative feeling here is more about misleading naming.
Instead of having RX 9060 XT 8 GB and RX 9060 XT 16 GB, there should have been a clear naming of boundary between these two variants. The most widespread proposal is that AMD should have called 8 GB of spin the regular old RX 9060 and dropped XT suffy.
Why is it to name distinction important? Because what can happen to both graphics cards called ‘RX 9060 XT’ is that System Builders simply shows it as GPU on a given PC, without accompanying memory details. Less informed consumers may not even be aware that there are two different variants of the RX 9060 XT.
They may have reviewed opinions or reviews of the 16 GB taste and assume that is what they get in their shiny new PC when it actually has some subordinate 8 GB GP.
PC barley men deliberately can’t make it clear because the system is cheaper to produce with RX 9060 XT 8 GB, but they won’t fall the price of considering it. In other words, this is a knowledge trap of the careless and a way for system producers to take advantage of them. And it’s an Avenue AMD could have closed with different names of 8 GB and 16 GB cards.
AMD may claim that it intends to have an RX 9060 Vanilla GPU in the future, so it couldn’t use this name, but it could certainly have found an appropriate way to denote the difference. Such as calling the 16 GB version 9060 XTX (although a suffix reserved for the flagship GPU, you get the idea).
There is a level of accident and cynicism about the naming here, in short, and we should note that this applies to NVIDIA as well as AMD (with Team Green’s XX60 Ti models that have both 8 GB and 16 GB versions in the same spirit).
AMD gets a credit here to make sure it has not hammered RX 9060 XT for some players with older motherboards by halving the number of supported PCIe pitches. Still, I won’t go into this as it really gets the siding (and that’s something I’ve discussed elsewhere).
To summarize: 8 GB should be okay in many games at 1080p resolution, with some voting of graphics details as needed-but it doesn’t work well for everything, and the level of future-proofing, Wonky actually feels.
In addition, be careful with pre -built PCs showing an RX 9060 XT graphics card without accompanying Specinfo -it will almost certainly be the 8 GB version and you may pay more for it than you should.
For those who buy an independent RX 9060 XT, it makes sense to pay the prize for the 16 GB version. It is worth doing it for future -proofing alone, and it promises to be an excellent graphics card for money in general.
That said, this assumes that the prize is approx. 15% extra according to the MRSPs, and this demand for 9060 XT 16 GB does not blow the price significantly. If it does, then the value muddles the equation much more. Hopefully stock will not be a problem if rumors are right. It is only if the supply is thin that the Jonket-up prices begin to breed their ugly heads.
If another rumor is correct, the 16 GB card will be the RX 9060 XT model predominantly in stock at retailers, so it will still be the one you most see if you are in search of an AMD GPU anyway.
Although it also brings the hint that the 8 GB taste is kept more for PC barley lords, which can wander with the aforementioned cynic flames around this entire affair -provided this is something more than empty scraped.
