There's conflicting opinions on vRAM usage but actually measuring usage in games is a pretty objective thing. So far in both the 10Gb and 8Gb threads we've seen FUD being spread about vRAM usage for games and I've addressed all the examples where people to have claimed to find this one killer app. But that's not the issue here as you've literally said yourself, you don't particularly care about what people need rather than what they're owed.
You're saying that people are being short changed on vRAM, can you explain what the right amount of vRAM would not "short change" people and why specifically that amount of vRAM would be appropriate for the card. What actual criteria do you use to pick the amount you're picking? Be specific.
It's hilarious that you claim I've ignored examples, I've gone to pretty long lengths in both threads to actually download and install these games, test them with new and improved tools that gather more accurate metrics and even investigate how the games are using the vRAM and what difference those settings make. Demonstrating with evidence these claims are wrong.
I pointed out that as vRAM gets faster and more compact that the price goes up and quoted real world prices of vRAM for the new cards literally being more expensive per Gb than the previous generation by at least 2x more but probably even higher for GDDR6x. It is more difficult to produce these new RAM modules that's why they're more expensive per Gb for Nvidia and AIBs to actually purchase and part of why the cards cost more. I'm sorry but if you don't know about the physical limitations of shrinking electornics then I'd suggest you read something like this
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/24/905789/were-not-prepared-for-the-end-of-moores-law/ what you're going to have to come to accept is that your expectations are wrong, not because I say they're wrong but because they don't accord with reality. It's not a controversial fact that Moore's Law is coming to an end, all the big tech leaders have said it, the principles of physics that define behaviour of electronics at small scales is well known and well studied. As long as you ignore or reject this fact you're going to continue to expect that components get faster at the same rate as previous generations for no additional cost, and this is fundamentally a bad expectation.
Nvidia will sell you whatever you will buy, if you want to buy a 20Gb card then be my guest, but you're going to pay more money for that memory, doesn't matter if it comes from Nvidia or AMD, for every additional Gb chip they put on the card is an additional cost to them which increases the price for you. It's really obvious that you have this chip on your shoulder about big business and getting ripped off and it's leading you to all sorts of odd conclusions.
