The July Steam Survey Is In: 16GB GPUs Have Officially Overtaken 8GB for the First Time

[David_Schroth]

The monthly Steam Hardware Survey rarely delivers genuine milestones, but Valve’s July 2026 data contains two that have been building for most of this year: graphics cards with 16GB of VRAM now account for 25.9% of surveyed Steam systems, edging past 8GB cards at 25.32% to become the most common VRAM configuration on the platform […]

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[Grimlakin]

As the song says... Bout **** Time.

 

[Elf_Boy]

Out of context I am not sure it matters - till resolution comes into play.

I have been wondering if 16gb is enough for 4k - so far it seems so. Not that I have been pushing my system much. AARPG's (POE 1-2/GD/TQ 1-2) tend to be more CPU bottlenecked than GPU.

Hmmmm Copilot seems to think: