Can overclocking get 8 GB AMD and Nvidia graphics cards to the performance of their 16 GB versions? Yes, but I've got some bad news for you too

2 weeks ago 8

Rommie Analytics

I've spent the past few weeks testing the pants off of several graphics cards. Such is the life of a hardware writer. Alongside my 8 GB vs 16 GB VRAM testing, I've also reviewed the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB and the RX 9060 XT 8 GB, and found them to deliver reasonable gaming performance on average—although the Nvidia card definitely wins the day. And yes, the 16 GB versions are faster overall.

One question has been nagging at the back of my mind, though. While I've proven that the 8 GB variants of these semi-budget GPUs are often slower on average compared to their 16 GB equivalents, can overclocking even the odds?

To find out, I've tweaked the twangers out of my 8 GB graphics card samples, and then run them across our GPU benchmarking ...

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