The briefing
The PC hardware market has been in a rather volatile and uncertain place since the beginning of the global memory crisis . Over the past year, DRAM costs, which underpin VRAM pricing, have almost tripled due to a massive, unprecedented demand from the AI industry. Naturally, this change arrived with ripple effects in the consumer market, pushing high-VRAM configurations of the RTX 50-series and Radeon 9000 series well above the intended launch MSRP. The latest Steam Hardware Survey , however,…