Graphics Cards – How Much Memory Do They Need?

When advertising, numbers always demonstrate the idea of improvement in a very simple and understandable way. Like, version 2.0 is better than version 1.0 and 4GB RAM is better than 3GB. This is because more is better and it’s a truth that is accepted throughout the universe.

But the real world is not that simple. Graphics cards manufacturers use the RAM as a marketing tool. They put gigabytes of memory in a card that has too low a processing power to even use that amount of memory. These GPUs don’t have the necessary power to run games at resolutions and detail levels that would require such huge amount of RAM. So, a low end card doesn’t need gigs of memory when it can not even use it. High end cards have proper power that is needed to run high configuration games and they need a large amount of RAM to do so.