Nvidia’s older GPUs are proving to be better at longevity than AMD

For the last five to six years, AMD has been winning the VRAM war, at least on paper. VRAM was the basket Team Red put its eggs in, with their GPUs going head-to-head against Nvidia’s with more memory, better raster performance per dollar, and stronger launch-day options. In fact, that even mattered, albeit for a while.

In the meantime, Nvidia invested heavily in the software side of things, making sure the entire gaming landscape transformed around their software suite. Now, the used card market and users who haven’t upgraded for years are all seeing the same truth: Nvidia’s older GPUs are simply proving to be better value in this stage of the long run against their AMD counterparts that they once struggled to overpower in the VRAM battle.