I've watched some of the 3060 reviews, Hardware Unboxed, JayZ2Cents, Gamers Nexus.... and they all have a common theme, they all seem to hate GPU's with anything more than 8GB of Vram on them, its like a pet peeve with them, Oh no its got 16GB of Vram on it... its a gimmick, its just marketing, its just a peeing contest YOU DON'T NEED IT.... winge winge winge...
So the 3060 has 12GB, for that card maybe it is overkill, but i'm sorry these people who think themselves so clever are so stupid they don't realise why Nvidia did that.
With a 192Bit bus it can only have Vram in 3GB or 6GB multiples, people are not happy with 6GB of Vram on a midrange card, its why when Nvidia upgraded the 2060, which had a 192Bit bus and 6GB to the 2060 Super with a 256Bit bus and 8GB, Nvidia wanted the 3060 to be a more efficient design, so a smaller bus, 192Bit, that meant 6GB or 12GB, 6GB was pretty much out of the question so it had to be 12GB.
Now with that in mind they can make their arguments but they are being idiots. Fine.
But then they turn their attention to the 6800/XT 6900XT, 256Bit bus, choices are 8GB or 16GB, AMD opted for 16GB.
So these idiots, again, point at that and rant, Marketing, gimmick, its too much blah blah blah...
It isn't too much, when you consider these are the same people who used to insists "You don't need more than 4 cores" you realise how idiotic these people really are, because that aged well didn't it?
You might not need 16GB of Vram 'for most things' now, but in a year, two or three? When they predict what you will need in a couple of years remember that "you only need 4 cores" nonsense they used to spout.
Yes i'm getting annoyed with them, they keep banging on and on about it like they are trying to force Nvidia AMD to reduce the amount of VRam they put on the cards, why? what's it to them? why is this so important to them? I don't get given my cards for free every 6 months, i'd like to keep them for a few years.
The 6700XT will have 12GB on it. GOOD, FANTASTIC!
Stop it, you're supposed to be on the side of consumers, not these vendors. Do your job, shut up. Don't tell us what we "Don't need"
So the 3060 has 12GB, for that card maybe it is overkill, but i'm sorry these people who think themselves so clever are so stupid they don't realise why Nvidia did that.
With a 192Bit bus it can only have Vram in 3GB or 6GB multiples, people are not happy with 6GB of Vram on a midrange card, its why when Nvidia upgraded the 2060, which had a 192Bit bus and 6GB to the 2060 Super with a 256Bit bus and 8GB, Nvidia wanted the 3060 to be a more efficient design, so a smaller bus, 192Bit, that meant 6GB or 12GB, 6GB was pretty much out of the question so it had to be 12GB.
Now with that in mind they can make their arguments but they are being idiots. Fine.
But then they turn their attention to the 6800/XT 6900XT, 256Bit bus, choices are 8GB or 16GB, AMD opted for 16GB.
So these idiots, again, point at that and rant, Marketing, gimmick, its too much blah blah blah...
It isn't too much, when you consider these are the same people who used to insists "You don't need more than 4 cores" you realise how idiotic these people really are, because that aged well didn't it?
You might not need 16GB of Vram 'for most things' now, but in a year, two or three? When they predict what you will need in a couple of years remember that "you only need 4 cores" nonsense they used to spout.
Yes i'm getting annoyed with them, they keep banging on and on about it like they are trying to force Nvidia AMD to reduce the amount of VRam they put on the cards, why? what's it to them? why is this so important to them? I don't get given my cards for free every 6 months, i'd like to keep them for a few years.
The 6700XT will have 12GB on it. GOOD, FANTASTIC!
Stop it, you're supposed to be on the side of consumers, not these vendors. Do your job, shut up. Don't tell us what we "Don't need"
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