It’s because the GTX 10XX gen had much VRAM (yes 1070 had 8GB VRAM in 2016) and was a super good generation that lasted many years. Clearly they want you to change GPUs more often and that’s why they limit the VRAM.
Honestly I think it is because of DLSS. If you can get a $300 card that could do 4k DLSS performance well, why would you need to buy a xx70(ti) or xx80 card?
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It’s because the GTX 10XX gen had much VRAM (yes 1070 had 8GB VRAM in 2016) and was a super good generation that lasted many years. Clearly they want you to change GPUs more often and that’s why they limit the VRAM.
Honestly I think it is because of DLSS. If you can get a $300 card that could do 4k DLSS performance well, why would you need to buy a xx70(ti) or xx80 card?
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Why wouldn’t they want that when they’re the ones selling you the hardware?
Do you think they’d make more money selling every individual an AI GPU or selling 1 GPU to OpenAI to serve thousands of users?