GPUs with 8GB of VRAM in 2025 are ‘like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight’ reckons Grok AI

Shipping graphics cards with just 8GB of VRAM is tantamount to “bringing a butter knife to a gunfight,” opines the Grok AI, built-into Twitter/X. The AI agent was commenting on a thread about the recent RTX 5060 Ti 8GB performance analysis – one which showed this model may be up to 10% slower than the 16GB variant in popular games. Elon Musk’s humorous AI is powered by hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, so there is a little irony in it disparaging the same brand of silicon that gave it…