AMD Once Again Highlights VRAM Advantage of Radeon GPUs Over GeForce, 16 GB Starting At $499

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This month, AMD has highlighted the VRAM advantage and value of its Radeon GPUs over GeForce GPUs twice, saying that they offer up to 16 GB memory with a starting price of just $499 US.

As per AMD's Senior Director of Gaming Marketing, Sansa Marinkovic, the AMD Radeon RX 7000 and the RX 6000 GPUs offer more VRAM at a better value than the competition. AMD says that its Radeon 16 GB experience starts at a price of $499 US whereas NVIDIA's 16 GB experience starts at $1199 US.

If we begin the comparison, we can see that the AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB graphics card starts at $499 US and offers twice the memory, and better performance & retails at a $50 US lower average price compared to the RTX 3070. The card is also cheaper than the RTX 4070 12 GB which starts at $599 US. Compared to that, the Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB can be found close to $550-$579 US and the RX 6950 XT 16 GB has a retail listing of around $649 US and was even on sale for $599 US which is an amazing price.

In the high-end segment, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT costs around $50 US more than the RTX 4070 Ti and even saw some deals which brought it close to the same MSRP as the 4070 Ti and is offering 8 GB higher VRAM. The RTX 7900 XTX at $999 US offers 24 GB VRAM whereas NVIDIA's RTX 4080 ships with 16 GB VRAM at a price of $1200 US and the only 24 GB cards from NVIDIA this gen is the flagship RTX 4090 which has a totally different pricing tier of $1600 US (MSRP). This card is a whole different beast and AMD themselves are aware that nothing comes close to it.

While AMD is correct that they offer more VRAM per segment at a far better value, it should be remembered that they aren't the cheapest 16 GB options around. That crown goes to Intel's Arc A770 16 GB which