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With all of the hullabaloo regarding recent releases requiring tons of VRAM, we're now sure it's the right time to finally have a talk about what VRAM requirements used to be, and then based on that what we expect them to be in a few years from now!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

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Lo_Res_Gamer

"It all comes down to price..." Up to a point. If the GPU processing power and VRAM size are badly mismatched, the price could've been even lower with proper balance. a 3070 with 24 GB would be overpriced because 8-12 GB of the RAM would never be effectively used. if the GPU can only push 1440p, what's the point of supporting 8k textures? It's like the ridiculous cooler on the 4080 -- nVidia loses price flexilibity because of the BOM cost.

MooresLawIsDead

Well yeah - "it comes down to price" takes many things into account. Honestly if the 3070 Ti had 16GB of VRAM - I think it could have been $649 and fairly called the "RTX 3080". But if the 3070 had 4GB? Yeah idk then it should be $250 max lol