Little by little, it seems that nobody wants 8 GB graphics cards any more. Indeed, MindFactory’s figures for week 29 seem to underline the obvious. As we shall see, sales of this type of card have collapsed to such an extent that the merchant sold less than one RX 9060 XT 8 GB card per day – that’s saying something!
RX 9060 XT 8 Go: less than one sale a day at MindFactory during week 29!
Once again, we can count on TechEpiphany to compile the store’s sales figures. And, once again, MindFactory does not represent the market as a whole, but only a small portion of it. However they have the benefit of giving some transparency by sharing their sales figures.
In any case, in this twenty-ninth week of 2025, we can’t say that the 9060 XT 8GB shines in terms of sales figures. In fact, 68 times more 16GB cards were sold than 8GB models! But the situation is similar at NVIDIA too, where we learned a few weeks ago that far more RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB cards were sold than 8 GB.
Clearly, the market is abandoning 8 GB graphics cards on a massive scale, and this is reflected in the sales figures. On the one hand, these 8 GB cards are becoming increasingly limited in terms of performance. As we said here, it’s night and day between an RTX 5060 Ti 16 and 8 GB. The 16GB version, which is not limited by a lack of VRAM, benefits from better framerates and has no texture loading problems or other issues such as high frametime, which greatly affect fluidity and feel.
This situation was foreseen by the manufacturers. Remember, NVIDIA and its partners didn’t distribute any 8GB cards for testing when the RTX 5060 Ti, RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 were launched. The few tests that were available were offered by editors with their hands in the wallet, or arranged directly with distributors. Secondly, the price gap between these two versions has narrowed considerably. Where it used to cost $100 to upgrade from an RTX 4060 Ti 8GB to a 16GB version, now it’s just $50, a difference that makes the investment easier.
