Intel Arc B580 is Alright

[@alegame135]

wasn't expecting this on my recomendations

[@richardbixler]

Amazing thumbnail

[@Nyarurin]

vtuber turns techtuber?

[@rielleleaf]

Tech has been, and is definitely an important part of my vtubing experience!

[@roqeyt3566]

A 50 minute vtuber clip on a graphics card? Yea I'm definitely gonna have to stick around for this one

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Tom's has always been intel and nvidia biased, so while I can't be sure and am certainly not making any absolute claims here... I wouldn't put it past them to cherry pick some data to show 'ayymd bad'. They are barely better than userbenchmark.

[@tumage8592]

I dont think in the year 2025 12 gb is a Minimum for full hd. Edit: ment 8gb is not the Minimum, but 12gb : \

[@Based360pEnjoyer]

16gb should be the new standard, don't care what you believe.

[@arlynnfolke]

8gb still great for most games but not for newer games. 12gb is a minimum for most 'new/modern' games. 16gb is an ideal and probably be worth till 2028. * but yeah, lower class should be having 12gb vram as a standard from now on, considering newer gen meant to be for newer games, should add more vram if it meant to be modern aaa games.

[@rielleleaf]

According to DRAMExchange, GDDR6 spot price as of this week is $2.3 for 8 Gbit (=1 GByte) so multiply that by 2 for more complex PCB and components + margins and you arrive at around $5 retail price for 1GB VRAM. If Intel can offer B580 with 12GB VRAM at $250, 16GB (if the GPU had 256-bit memory bus and didn't cost more than its current form) could've been offered at around $270, which they may have felt was too close in price to the competition for no immediate benefit over 12GB.