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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?
I bought an used RTX 3070 with 8GB VRAM, two and a half years ago, and occasionally i get pissed from my VRAM limits. I don’t know who buys a GPU with 8GB these days…
Uninformed desperate users unfortunately😔
I bought one new as the planned 3090 and potential backup 3080 were far too expensive, worst card i owned.
The 8gb was enough for about 3 months, when i was still enamored with my backlog of older games.
I now switched teams and got a 24gb gpu. My first gpu was also team red and lasted 11 years until it was incapable of running the games i wanted to play. I hope my current gpu will also last longer.
