With sufficient VRAM and upscaling technology, mainstream GPUs are perfectly capable of 4K gaming. Nvidia's approach to reviews of 8GB GPUs also suggests manufacturers are aware of the shortcomings.

Nvidia's stingy VRAM allocation has been one of our primary criticisms of the RTX 50 series. The RTX 5090 is the lineup's only GPU to include more memory than its predecessor.

Home > Computing Nvidia's Neural Texture Tech May Fix VRAM Shortage Issues It's still early days, but the AI-powered texture compression could make 8GB VRAM GPUs viable again.

Up front and centre, several minimum requirements stand out. You're going to need at least eight CPU cores, 8 GB of VRAM, and Nvidia RTX 2070 or AMD 5700 XT, 16 GB of RAM and finally an SDD rather ...