“That’s enough for most gamers”: AMD’s gaming boss surprises with statements about 8 GB VRAM

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The RX 9060 XT with 8 GB is also facing criticism – AMD’s gaming boss Frank Azor defends the GPU as ‘sufficient for most gamers.’

As expected, AMD unveiled its new graphics cards based on the two versions of the RX 9060 XT at Computex 2025. These differ in only one important aspect: the graphics memory. The RX 9060 XT is available with both 8 and 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM.

As with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti, opinions are divided on these configurations, with many users declaring the 8 GB version “dead on arrival” because the amount of graphics memory is simply not enough for modern games.

Nvidia has been arguing for years that 8 GB can still be sufficient – and now, in the wake of the RX 9060 XT launch, it is receiving surprisingly explicit support from AMD’s gaming boss Frank Azor.

  • He commented on an X post by Spanish tech YouTuber Michael Quesada, who, in a presentation with AMD vice president David McAfee, expressed his frustration that graphics cards with only 8 GB of video memory will still be on the market in 2025.

Azor’s response: “Most gamers still play at 1080p resolution and don’t need more than 8 GB of video memory.”

“We wouldn’t make it if there wasn’t a market for it.”

Azor’s response continues by saying that “e-sports games are mainly played worldwide” – so there is a market for these 8 GB graphics cards, otherwise AMD wouldn’t be building such models.

For those who find 8 GB insufficient, there is a version with double the memory, which Azor advertises as “the same GPU, no compromises, just memory options.”

Some comments below Azor’s statements, however, suggest that the problem also has to do with the naming: Both the 8 GB and 16 GB versions are simply called RX 9060 XT. Many argue that it would have been better to rename the smaller memory version “RX 9060” to make it clearer for potential buyers.