{"id":168432,"date":"2025-12-02T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/testing-shows-why-the-steam-machines-8gb-of-graphics-ram-could-be-a-problem\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:26:26","slug":"testing-shows-why-the-steam-machines-8gb-of-graphics-ram-could-be-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/testing-shows-why-the-steam-machines-8gb-of-graphics-ram-could-be-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing shows why the Steam Machine\u2019s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By Valve\u2019s admission, its upcoming Steam Machine desktop isn\u2019t swinging for the fences with its graphical performance. The specs promise decent 1080p-to-1440p performance in most games, with 4K occasionally reachable with assistance from FSR upscaling\u2014about what you\u2019d expect from a box with a modern midrange graphics card in it.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily becoming more of a bottleneck for midrange GPUs like AMD\u2019s Radeon RX 7060 and 9060, or Nvidia\u2019s GeForce RTX 4060 or 5060.<\/p>\n<p>In our reviews of these GPUs, we\u2019ve already run into some games where the RAM ceiling limits performance in Windows, especially at 1440p. But we\u2019ve been doing more extensive testing of various GPUs with SteamOS, and we can confirm that in current betas, 8GB GPUs struggle even more on SteamOS than they do running the same games at the same settings in Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/12\/steamos-has-problems-with-8gb-gpus-but-valve-is-working-on-it\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/12\/steamos-has-problems-with-8gb-gpus-but-valve-is-working-on-it\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Valve\u2019s admission, its upcoming Steam Machine desktop isn\u2019t swinging for the fences with its graphical performance. 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