I wonder if I am the only one getting sick of these incessant "omg a company is making profits at our expense" posts. It's like some of you have just crawled out from under a rock and learned how big businesses and corporations work.
Nvidia are not going to intentionally cripple their top-end cards by not providing enough VRAM for demanding games at high resolutions and they are also not going to add more VRAM than they need due to the added expense. I have no logical reason to doubt that given how competitive this generation will be and how important that they retain the performance crown that they will put enough VRAM on the cards do the job in combination with the compression techniques they implement.
And I get tired of post like yours pointing out the obvious. We all know that. Won't stop me from wanting more value for my money. Essentially it seems like you are saying stfu and be happy with whatever they put in front of you and pay whatever they ask.
Nah. I think I will continue to post what I am thinking and that is that we should be getting more than 12gb on a top end card that is essentially a 2021 card by the time it hits full availability.
End of the day if they are putting 12gb on a 3080ti, they are likely to put less on a 3070, which is not good enough unless they really have some magic under the hood that makes 8gb act like 12gb or more.
The games I was playing early last year on my Titan XP gobbled up 10-12gb of ram (I game at 4K). Now the 3070 will surely offer much more grunt than that gpu, but it might end up with less ram. So should I be happy about this?