16 GB Memory Size — 20 Graphics Cards Compared

Decision table

16 GB Memory Size: which one for what?

The 20 models on this page are scored only against each other, for the use you pick. Scores come from the spec sheets; no price and no advertising go in.

What will you use it for? Gaming Content Creation Quiet operation Films & Video

Leads for Gaming: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 508085%

Leads for Content Creation: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 508081%

Leads for Quiet operation: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT78%

Leads for Films & Video: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT78%

#8#8#17#20
AMD Radeon VIIAMD
16 GB · 1750 MHz · 300 W
77% 68% 54% 52%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 2048 GB/s memory bandwidth
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
#10#19#15#14
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XTAMD
16 GB · 2250 MHz · 300 W
75% 51% 54% 60%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#11#20#16#15
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTAMD
16 GB · 2250 MHz · 300 W
75% 51% 54% 60%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#19#14#5#3
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XTAMD
16 GB · 2755 MHz · 190 W
68% 58% 63% 77%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- 190 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Films & Video
- AV1 decoder
- 190 W — among the frugal ones here
#6#11#6#9
AMD Radeon RX 9070AMD
16 GB · 2520 MHz · 220 W
78% 62% 62% 64%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 640 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- 220 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- 220 W — among the frugal ones here
#17#6#18#16
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080NVIDIA
16 GB · Ada Lovelace · 2510 MHz
71% 70% 52% 59%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#13#13#7#4
Intel Arc A770 16GBIntel
16 GB · Xe HPG · 2100 MHz
74% 61% 62% 76%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- 225 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Films & Video
- AV1 decoder
- 225 W — among the frugal ones here
#20#16#4#2
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 TiNVIDIA
16 GB · Ada Lovelace · 2540 MHz
65% 58% 65% 78%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- 165 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Films & Video
- AV1 decoder
- 165 W — among the frugal ones here
#18#7#19#17
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPERNVIDIA
16 GB · Ada Lovelace · 2550 MHz
71% 70% 52% 59%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#16#5#12#13
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERNVIDIA
16 GB · Ada Lovelace · 2610 MHz
71% 70% 58% 62%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#4#17#20#18
AMD Radeon RX 6950 XTAMD
16 GB · 2310 MHz · 335 W
80% 53% 51% 58%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#12#3#9#12
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XTAMD
16 GB · 2430 MHz · 263 W
75% 74% 59% 62%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 624 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
#7#12#8#5
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GREAMD
16 GB · 2245 MHz · 260 W
77% 61% 60% 75%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- 260 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Films & Video
- AV1 decoder
- 260 W — among the frugal ones here
#14#18#2#10
AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD
16 GB · 2105 MHz · 250 W
72% 51% 73% 63%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
Nothing stands out for this use; the score comes from overall balance.
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Quiet operation
- 250 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- 250 W — among the frugal ones here
#15#15#1#1
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XTAMD
16 GB · 3130 MHz · 160 W
71% 58% 78% 78%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Quiet operation
- 160 W — among the frugal ones here
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Films & Video
- AV1 decoder
- 160 W — among the frugal ones here
#9#10#3#6
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TiNVIDIA
16 GB · Blackwell · 2572 MHz
77% 64% 69% 70%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Ray-tracing hardware
- Current model — 18 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
- Current model — 18 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- 180 W — among the frugal ones here
- Current model — 18 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- 180 W — among the frugal ones here
- Current model — 18 months on the market
#3#9#10#7
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTAMD
16 GB · RDNA 4 · 2970 MHz
83% 67% 59% 65%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 640 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 encoder
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- Current model — 19 months on the market
#5#4#14#19
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPUNVIDIA
16 GB · Blackwell · 80-150 W
79% 74% 55% 55%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 19 months on the market
#2#2#11#8
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TiNVIDIA
16 GB · Blackwell · 2452 MHz
84% 80% 59% 65%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 896 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 19 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- Current model — 19 months on the market
#1#1#13#11
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080NVIDIA
16 GB · Blackwell · 2617 MHz
85% 81% 55% 63%
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Gaming
- 960 GB/s memory bandwidth
- Ray-tracing hardware
- Current model — 20 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Editorial tag: Content Creation
- AV1 encoder
- Current model — 20 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- Current model — 20 months on the market
Why it ranks here
- AV1 decoder
- Current model — 20 months on the market