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WoodenPints said:

JEMC said:

Indeed, the 5080 would have been a bit more appealing with 24GB of VRAM, but Nvidia always goes for the min. amount of it possible. If there' one area where AMD is better than Nvidia is that one, the amount of VRAM in its cards (at least as of late). That's why the 6700XT/6500XT are still a better proposition than the 4060Ti.

With that said, I hope AMD ups their game a bit more with the next ones and the 8600 comes with 12GB, with 16GB for the 8700 and 24GB for the 8800.

In any case, and to be fair, looking at the game performance reviews Techpowerup does, most games still work well with 16GB even at 4K, outsiders likt SW Outlaws appart.

Yeah I think if you upgrade to each new card the vram on Nvidia cards is enough but I think the general consumer wants to skip the following card after a purchase so every 4 years is the real minimum lifespan but some of the vram usage ramps is greatly when you enable the feature sets like RT, RR and DLSS+frame gen.

Whilst 24GB would be cool I think if they had 20GB on the 5080 it would offer the comfort of having headroom to enable more stuff over the next few years.

20GB would have worked, yes, but it's an odd number. Just like the 3080 with its 10GB. It doesn't feel right.

I think 24 would have been a better goal as that's how much capacity the 4090 has, and offering the 5080 with the same amount would make some buyers think that both cards are at the same level... which they may or may not be. We'll see.