An infamous former American national Security The agency’s entrepreneur and reporter (NSA) unexpectedly shared his opinion on the state of the graphics card market. Russian citizen naturalized Edward Snowden called the Nvidia recently released GeForce RTX 5080 “A monopolistic crime against the consumer” because of his “16 paralyzing”. Imagine his anger if he was considering the next RTX 50 laptop family…
The infinite thought of the next quarter has reduced the Nvidia brand to “level F value for level S prices”. 5070 should have had 16 GB of VRAM minimum, 5080 W 24/32 SKUS, 5090 32/48/ +. The release of a GPU of $ 1,000 + in 2025 with a period of 16 GB is a monopolistic crime against the consumer.January 31, 2025
You can see the full comments if you develop the tweet above. Snowden is brutally clear by sharing his disappointment with the RTX 50 series (Blackwell) Family Trum Quotas. However, his opinion is no different from that of Tom’s material GPU publisher. In our examination of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders edition edition earlier in the week, we also groaned the VRAM gap between the RTX 5090 (32 GB) and the RTX 5080 (16 GB, the same amount as the RTX 4080/ /S).
We have also noticed that some modern games love Indiana Jones and the big circleThe execution of 4K is already forced by 16 GB. We therefore wrote that “24 GB would have been much better for a graphics card of $ 1,000 (or more)”, which allowed the RTX 5080 to be a disappointing offer second level of the new Blackwell series.
Things slide in even more desperate truum constraints lower the GPU battery of the RTX 50 series. On the other hand, the RTX 5070 Ti With 16 GB GDDR7 on a 256 -bit bus (essentially the same memory configuration as RTX 5080) could find some favor by consumers; The “70” card This generation is delivered to the packaging of 12 GB of VRAM, just like the latest generation. Thus, it is not surprising that Snowden also called the RTX 5070claiming that he “should have had a minimum of 16 GB”.
It is easy to agree with criticisms of the Green team’s VRAM specifications for its new series of Blackwell consumption graphics cards. In February 2021, the flea manufacturer launched the popular RTX 3060 With 12 GB as standard and lowered the RTX 3050 at 8 GB. The consumer blackwell series offering the RTX 5070 with 12 GB and its expectations Skus RTX 5060 With as little as 8 GB seems retrograde in 2025. As mentioned in the intro, buyers of laptops are even less lucky, in particular GPUs of laptops RTX 5070 and 5060 with 8 GB of VRAM, which seem hampered at birth in the like issues.
AMD has not yet launched the Radeon RX 9700 XT, But disclosed specifications have set the DNA 4 GPU and the regular Raft RX 9700 with 16 GB of VRAM. Of course, the type of performance that DNA 4 GPUs will bring remains to be seen. The new generation GPUs of AMD would have apparently Remove the market at the end of March.