Push 4K, high-res texture packs, RT, big Blender/Unreal scenes, Resolve timelines with multiple high-bitrate streams, or local ML models, and 16 GB becomes a ceiling you slam into. When you spill past VRAM, you page over PCIe, and performance falls off a cliff. Plenty of buyers keep a GPU for 3–5 years and do more than game.
Publisher: How-To Geek
“Please Stop Buying GPUs With More Than 16GB of VRAM” is a stupid title written for clicks, not readers. It pretends a universal rule exists because the author can’t be bothered to do the work. If you can’t even ship a page without aesthetic malpractice, spare us the proclamations.
The piece offers no measurements, no traces, no screenshots of VRAM headroom under real workloads. Just hand-waving. If you’re going to tell people to cap at 16 GB, show where 24 GB or 48 GB fails to matter at 4K with modern assets, or in content creation pipelines that actually exist. Without that, it’s Reddit hot takes wearing a byline.
VRAM needs depend on what you run and at what settings. 1080p and 1440p with sane textures? Fine, 8–16 GB often does the job. Push 4K, high-res texture packs, RT, big Blender/Unreal scenes, Resolve timelines with multiple high-bitrate streams, or local ML models, and 16 GB becomes a ceiling you slam into. When you spill past VRAM, you page over PCIe, and performance falls off a cliff. That isn’t theory; it’s how memory hierarchies work.
It also confuses capacity with speed. Capacity prevents overflow; bandwidth, compression, and architecture determine how fast you chew through the data. Calling anything over 16 GB “wasted” is ignorant of both sides of the equation.
Plenty of buyers keep a GPU for 3–5 years and do more than game. Extra VRAM is cheap insurance against tomorrow’s larger assets and models. Sometimes it’s the difference between working and not working, not between 98 and 102 FPS.
This reads like a performative PSA about frugality from a triggered grad student who just checked their crypto wallet, not technical guidance. How-To Geek postures as helpful while recycling forum angst into commandments, a click-farming confidence trick dressed in blue links. The byline might as well be a disgruntled ex-intern who smells faintly of burnt thermal paste, clutching 16 GB like a security blanket and calling it wisdom. If you want advice worth anything, bring data and context; otherwise, stop lecturing people into breaking their workflows to fit your budget.
