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Ekaros ◴[12 Nov 25 18:15 UTC] No.45903653[source]▶
>RAM 16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM

Hmm. Not that it is big deal, but I would be somewhat worried about true longevity with the VRAM. Not sure if SteamOS helps there, but on PC some new titles are going over the 8GB VRAM.

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AnotherGoodName ◴[12 Nov 25 18:55 UTC] No.45904317[source]▶
It's a very low end Radeon 7000 series. It's absolutely incapable of the highest texture quality and rendering resolutions that need more than 8GB of VRAM. You'll likely never go above 1080p on this card (1440p is going to be rough based on benchmarks of the existing low end 7000 series).

There's absolutely no reasonable way to use more than 8GB of VRAM on this card.

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1. hs86 ◴[12 Nov 25 19:19 UTC] No.45904826[source]▶
Even modern low-end GPUs should have more than enough fill rate for high-res textures. The texture quality setting in games is usually not affecting performance at all until VRAM runs out.
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2. AnotherGoodName ◴[12 Nov 25 20:29 UTC] No.45906098[source]▶
Part of that is that the texture detail scales to the point where on a low end card at low resolutions you aren’t seeing any difference between high and low detail textures.