Breaking Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, 8GB GPUs Holding Back The Industry

Who took your chair :(

2007 - 8800GT 512MB - $350 2015 - R9 390X 8GB - $430 (in 8 years from 512MB to 8GB) 2017 - gtx1070 8GB - $380 2019 - 2060 S. 8GB - $400 2021 - 3060ti 8GB - $400 2023 - 4060ti 8GB - $400 (8 years later still 8GB for ~$400) In 2024 12GB of VRAM should be a bare minimum and 8GB cards should be only some entry-level sub $200 GPUs. $400 consoles have ~12GB of VRAM (from 16GB combined).

Rule of thumb: NEVER buy a GPU that has less VRAM than the current-gen consoles. In this case, 12 GB should be the bare minimum anyone should consider if they want to play the newest games.

i feel like nvidia cucked everyone with a 12gb lineup of midrange

Can't wait for a brand new RTX 5060Ti with 8Gb VRAM, 4 PCI-E lanes for as low as $500, would be awesome

NVidia lesson learned: "So you are saying we need PCIe 5.0 on next gen?, We got you. RTX 5060 Ti 8GB PCIe 5.0 incoming".

4060 ti: Have I not suffer enough?! What do you want me to do?! Steve: proceeded to drag it to the mud even further

Current day GPU buyers cant fathom the idea of having more VRAM than you need for todays games so your GPU can last more than few years. They ve been frog boiled into accepting this planned obsolescence. If RX480 and GTX 1070 had 8GB 8 years ago theres no reason why modern 400$ cards dont have more

Me looking at my 3060 12gb, "it's okay little guy, you won't get replaced yet"

there's another part to this compounding issue that you've had kind-of on screen but didnt actively mention unless i've missed it. at least in the first half, a lot of the games that had the 8gb version struggling already, were also sitting at or above 16 bg of system memory usage to make up for the missing vram, where the 16gb model was usually sitting a good bit lower. You can argue that not only would the type of people buying a 4060 8gb be disproportionally more likely to be running pcie 3.0, they would also be disproportionally be more likely to still be using 16gb of system memory at most as 32 has really only become the go-to default somewhat recently.

just a bloke talking about vram, love to see it

I've legit seen people defending 8 gb current gen cards just a day ago. And from rumours, 50 series will also be 8gb in the most popular 60 class

Inflation is real even steve has to sell his chair to keep up

I love Steve, you guys being independent is so important for the community

Didn't you know? The human body can only use 8gb of ram anyway. So it's perfectly fine!

Considering how dirt cheap memory now is, there is no reason to have anything less than 16GB on cards.

Ngreedia fked me hard, it was hot summer 2022 when I decided to buy 3070ti for 2k resolution, payed 1k $ for that. By the winter same year i already was feeling a little 8gb peepee close to my mouth. By the summer 2023 i already felt miserable because in number of titles I was forced to use medium textures. So, january this year I sold 3070ti and got an 6900xt, cost of that trade was 150$. That is literally the best upgrade in my entire 36 years of life. AMD ❤

still thankful I chose a 6800xt over a 3070 back in 2021

AGAIN, those poor souls shouting 8 GB vram is enough

Oh I remember those shouting matches on steam forums and reddit about how "nobody can even use more than 8GB VRAM". Problem was, that was wrong even back then, depending on what you played. DCS for example already was hungering for more, especially if you played in VR, and that was pre-2019.