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> work fine with the amount of memory that consumer GPUs have

Most consumers buy GPUs to play videogames. Recently, nVidia launched two flavors of 5060 Ti consumer GPU with 8GB and 16GB memory, the cards are otherwise identical.

Apparently, the 8GB version is only good for 1080p resolution with no DLSS. In many games, the difference between these versions is very substantial. The article says 8GB version is deprecated right at launch: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-with-...

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It looks like the 8GB cards are about $60 (10-12%) cheaper than the 16GB cards.

I sure don't want a world where we only have 32GB 5090s and nVidia reaching farther down the price-vs-performance curve to offer consumers a more affordable (but lower performing) choice seems like a good, rather than a bad, thing to me. (I genuinely don't see the controversy here.)

> 8GB cards are about $60 (10-12%) cheaper

nVidia says the launch prices for them are $400 and $500, respectively.

> seems like a good, rather than a bad, thing to me

The bad thing is the most affordable current generation card capable of playing modern videogames in decent quality now costs $500. That’s too expensive for most consumers I’m afraid.

Steam hardware survey says 7 out of 10 most popular cards are nVidia [234]060 which were sold for around $300. Despite most of them also have 8GB VRAM, when consumers bought these cards a few years ago, 8 GB was good enough for videogames released at that time.

If you're defining 4K@60Hz or 4K@120Hz as the left extreme of "decent quality", then sure.

Legacy Blu-Ray discs maxed out at 1080p30. Most people would consider those discs to be "decent quality" (or more realistically even "high quality") video, and a $400 video card is well capable of playing modern games at (or even above) that resolution and framerate. The entry-level 5060 cards are also good enough for video games released at this time, in either memory trim.

> If you're defining 4K@60Hz or 4K@120Hz as the left extreme of "decent quality", then sure.

The 8GB version struggles in 1440p, and only delivers playable framerates in 1080p with some combination of in-game settings. Here’s the original article: https://www.techspot.com/review/2980-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060...

I agree with the author: that level of performance for $400 is inadequate. BTW, I remember 10 years ago I bought nVidia 960 for about $200. For the next couple years, the performance stayed pretty good even for newly released games.

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