AMD supposedly tacked on an extra 10 bucks per 8 gigs of video memory across their whole Radeon lineup, which means cards packing 16 gigs just got way pricier than before. The bump hits everything from budget options to high-end models because GDDR6 chips got stupid expensive thanks to AI companies and data centers hoarding supply while chip makers struggle to keep up.
Board partners are passing the costs down since GPUs ship with memory already soldered on, and analysts are saying this might not even be the last increase if DRAM prices keep acting crazy through next year. Cards with fat VRAM buffers are getting hammered the hardest by the changes.
Board partners are passing the costs down since GPUs ship with memory already soldered on, and analysts are saying this might not even be the last increase if DRAM prices keep acting crazy through next year. Cards with fat VRAM buffers are getting hammered the hardest by the changes.
