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NVIDIA Explains GeForce RTX 40 Series VRAM Functionality
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Because they expect you to pay a lot more for their professional line of cards.
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Simple.. If you want more VRAM, buy a more expensive card...
Like 24GB RTX Titan £750 used on fleabay with a nvlink connector so you can add 2nd one for 48GB pooled memory at a later date...
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8GB of vram costs $30, but please go on about how I should spend hundreds more for it. Please inform me about how I should have spent hundreds more to take my 3080 10gb to 12gb. I am patiently awaiting your gaslighting. Thanks!
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So you are saving 70$ by going for the 8gb 4060ti, since the 16gb costs 100$ more while 8gb of vram only cost 30$. You are welcome.
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Nvidia is still in the middle of a cash grab, yet you think the 4000 series is a "good deal" and compare one overpriced card to another. You're part of the problem.
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I´m getting to the the point i don´t care what Nvidia offers, i dont want to support them anymore.
Yeah, it was already proven by hardware modders that 16GB boost performance significantly on RTX 3070, which is around 4060 Ti performance.
This GeForce RTX 3070 comes with a physical 8GB/16GB memory switch - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA RTX 3070 features a physical memory capacity switch A video from Casual Gamers shows a graphics card NVIDIA would never make. Paulo Gomes team and Casual Gamers have teamed up for an interesting project. Brazilian modders have been making some crazy alterations to GeForce and Radeon GPUs...
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While people keep buying only RTX/GTX graphics cards, Nvidia has no reason to drop the price of their cards.
A. With the poor response to the 4060 Ti 8 GB, will Nvidia drop the 4060 Ti 16 GB price to get a better sales response?
Not enticing at $499 relative to 4060 Ti 8 GB performance. $50 discount? Then I may open my wallet.
When will it be released in July?
B. There are 4060 Ti 16 GB products available from different vendors but not released for sale. Some for testing and reviews. Wondering how long will it take to make the 16 GB version once Nvidia instructed the vendors. Weeks or months? Wonder whether this 16 GB version was already in the Nvidia plan months ahead.
Not enticing at $499 relative to 4060 Ti 8 GB performance. $50 discount? Then I may open my wallet.
When will it be released in July?
B. There are 4060 Ti 16 GB products available from different vendors but not released for sale. Some for testing and reviews. Wondering how long will it take to make the 16 GB version once Nvidia instructed the vendors. Weeks or months? Wonder whether this 16 GB version was already in the Nvidia plan months ahead.
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Nvidia makes money selling GPUs.
It's the VRAM manufacturers who make the more money when a new version of the a card is released with more VRAM.
If a 4060 Ti 16 GB is released, Nvidia may decrease sales of the 4070 and the VRAM makers will make more money.
My 10+ years old lg tv has that technologyDon't forget the fake frames
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Thankfully that's changing; With the exception of the 4090 which is a genuinely impressive product, the rest of the 40-series is sitting largely unsold on store shelves, and clogging up warehouse space for e-tailers even after discounts.
I just came back to this article a couple of weeks after all of the reviews and importantly now that the card has been out long enough for a few sites like Digital Foundry and HUB to do in-depth testing of the VRAM size issue. As expected, real-world testing completely contradicts the marketing bollocks Nvidia cooked up to explain VRAM functionality in the 40-series. It is provably irrelevant when the card doesn't have enough RAM to run games without stuttering, or dropping to low-end graphics settings.
Just think, the 4050 is only going to have 6GB. Is it 2017 already?
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