Both 40mbps and 500mbps are good for gaming as long as they are paired with an Ethernet Cable. 500mbps is significantly stronger than 40mbps.

A 300Mbps broadband connection is faster than the UK’s average home broadband service which has a download speed of 63Mbps. With a download speed of 300Mbps, you can do almost anything you’d like to do at the same time on the internet, on multiple devices at the same time.

Another reason why Steam may be experiencing fluctuations in download can be because of no limit to the bandwidth. This gets worse if you also have an unstable connection; resulting in extremely slow download speeds in Steam.

8GB is minimum these days given how AAA games are coded, but 12 GB or even 16 GB VRAM never hurts. Assuming you can afford these cards. Like I said this all depends on the particular game/application being used. For 1080p having extra VRAM is going to be overkill, or . . . Read more

The reason the 3060 has 12GB VRAM is because they designed it with a narrower memory bus, but they needed it to have at least 8GB of VRAM in order to be capable of as much ray tracing as they wanted it to be, and GDDR6 only comes in 1GB . . . Read more

1-2GB of VRAM: These cards are usually under $100. They offer better performance than integrated graphics, but can’t handle most modern games at above-average settings. Only purchase a card with this amount of VRAM if you want to play older games that won’t work with integrated graphics.

In 2022, 4 GB of dedicated VRAM should be the bare minimum to aim for in graphics cards. However, 8 GB is now the standard for most GPUs and that’s what you should aim for if you want a future-proof graphics card and/or if you intend on getting a 1440p . . . Read more

Our recommendation is to go with a GPU with at least 6GB of graphics memory if you plan on playing games at 1080p, high quality and reasonable framerates. Most graphics cards with this VRAM capacity will run most modern games, even demanding ones above 60 fps at high quality.

Reputable. It can be very important, you’d need more for higher resolutions and increased detailing in games (a good example is GTA V, although you can pass the VRAM limit with little-to-no impact, if any). The game "Don’t Starve Together" is a relatively low-end game, don’t necessarily need more VRAM . . . Read more

If modern games should run smoothly, you’ll require a discrete graphics card with dedicated memory. While 128 or 256 MB VRAM no longer suffice graphically demanding titles, mid-range graphics cards should feature a minimum of 512 MB and high-end graphics cards at least 1024 MB VRAM.