Nvidia like any other business entity, and pretty much most people, will obviously prioritize whatever pays more.
There's already considerable discussion on how 8GB VRAM is insufficient for 1080p gaming in 2024 / 2025.
I see used 3060's, 3070's and 3070ti's on the used market every week.
When the RTX 3080 launched it was touted as a 4K card, now most people seem to consider it a 1440p card.
It is a fast card, but most versions have 10GB VRAM (about the same as an entry level Intel B570), how long before people start saying 10GB VRAM is insufficient ?
The RTX 5080 comes with 16GB GDDR7 in comparison.
Yes, also like any normal consumers, once price becomes irrational, product becomes compromised, demand should also reduce.
Nvidia should be ceding market share in consumer gpu market because they are not interested, which ofc is by choice. But AMD has to step up.
Or overall demand should reduce and market gets smaller, more people move to consoles instead.
If even after that people only want to chase Nvidia gpus and be happy with small incremental changes, then market will price it accordingly ( against consumer obviously )
yes 3080 has not enough vram. I made that mistake,
and 12gb@60k even 16gb at 1L is the same/similar mistake today.
When i bought, almost every 4k game ran fine (and i was buying for 1440p). Same for 16gb today. Tomorrow it will become tighter and tighter, esp once next gen consoles start coming up.
3080 also had very good bandwidth for its time, it wasn't enough. One can resort to wishful thinking to justify anything.
Anyway, i am happy with it. I don't go after the latest games and instead put money in proper 4k HDR screen which makes a world of difference on image quality for ALL games.
Even Arkham city looks smashing in HDR.
No way i am overpaying for gpus simply to upgrade vram at similar price/perf. I am not paying for software instead of hardware.
I can easily afford all of those, but not interested and will only look at it when either market improves or my gpu breaks down.
Used gpus can be at good prices ofc, so that could be a choice for some if enough warranty is available.
Or maybe the 5000 series will end up like last gen's 4000 series and we'll get RTX 5070 super, RTX 5070 TI Super and RTX 5080 Super.
yes, 24gb one for 80 and 18gb for 70 series once we get 3gb vram chips is the rumour.