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Even 32GB would be great for a gaming card, any more and you're never seeing on sale as it will be bought by truckloads for AI, so of course they're not gonna balloon the VRAM. I suspect we'd still be at 16GB but they launched 3090 on Sep 2020 with 24GB, before all this craze really, and lowering is bad optics now.

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Meanwhile Apple will sell you a chip with 96GB of unified memory for the price of two 4090s ... and that is with the Apple tax ... it's ridiculous. I know the memory bandwith of M2 Max is like 1/2 of a 4090, but still, the artificial kneecapping Nvidia does is absurd.

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