AMD's Radeon products are no strangers to the list of best graphics cards. However, the chipmaker has also been very vocal that modern graphics cards should have at least 16GB of memory to push the latest triple-A titles. Sasa Marinkovic, the senior director of gaming marketing at AMD, has highlighted in a new tweet that AMD's Radeon 16GB graphics cards start at $499, unlike Nvidia, where you don't get 16GB until the GeForce RTX 4080, which has a $1,199 MSRP.
Marinkovic's comparison is evidently based on the size of the memory subsystem and pricing. Rasterized and ray tracing performance isn't taken into account. There appear to be some discrepancies in pricing, though. For example, the AMD executive listed the Radeon RX 6800 with a $499 price tag, meaning that he's not using MSRP for comparison. The Navi 21-based graphics card debuted in 2020 for $579 but now sells for as low as $469. Meanwhile, he listed the competing GeForce RTX 3070 for $549, which is neither its MSRP ($499) nor the cheapest model ($485) on the market.
