Gaming on the 4GB Radeon RX 6500 XT and GTX 1650 Super in 2026 — upscaling makes low-end GPUs viable for esports and internet cafes
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Practically every graphics card introduced since 2022 has had at least 6GB or 8GB of VRAM, but AMD is bucking that trend in 2026 with the new RX 9050 4GB. We dusted off two older 4GB cards to see if that little VRAM means an instant performance cliff.
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SPX just outperformed QQQ in July by 6.45 percentage points.
— OddStats (@OddStats) August 1, 2026
It's the most SPX has outperformed QQQ since September 2008.
Here's a list of every year where SPX outperformed QQQ by at least 6 percentage points in any single month:
2000
2001
2002
2008
2026
Enjoy.