Munx wrote on 2026-01-19, 18:53:

BitWrangler wrote on 2026-01-19, 16:36:

Historically, I don't think doubling up on GPU RAM ever paid off. By the time minimum spec reached the high amount of RAM for that card, the GPU was too slow or didn't have the features.

Historically, graphics cards used to come with more VRAM than you needed for that time and would double that amount every couple generations or so. We have not gotten much of a VRAM bump for almost a decade now. Had the 3070ti come with 16GB of memory instead of 8, I would still be very happy with it and would not have upgraded.

yeah the games market isn't selling games for which the hardware doesn't exist, though it might improve with later hardware. So first half of a generation with a RAM bump you're probably very happy for RAM, the second half, games are shipping that use all of the default amount on them.