[fishgoesblub]

It's amazing how great the 10 series was. The 1060, a budget card, had the same amount of VRAM as the previous generations top tier card (6GB) with the 1080Ti having 11GB! the 5060 for example has only 8GB, the same as the GTX 1070 and 1080.

[jandrese]

The RAM crunch has been a quiet victory for those older cards. I have a 10 year old video card in my rig that had at the time a decent but not chart topping 8GB of RAM. Developers are still targeting 8GB because so many of the cards released today still have that. Since I'm still using 1080p the performance is usually acceptable too. Surprisingly the biggest problem is becoming the CPU, with the i5-3570k lacking a few of the later SSE instructions and being completely unable to run some titles.

[crest]

SSE or AVX?

[jandrese]

The cutoff is AVX2 instructions. They were introduced one generation later.

[steinvakt2]

To be fair, the 5060 with 16GB is not that much more expensive than the 5060 8GB.