JAB CreationsOh, you're still here. I thought you needed to spend 14 hours a day doing nothing but playing video games. Did you watch the video in the first post? Nope! "99.9%" - that doesn't sound like a biased Nvidia fan boy "I did zero research and make blind claims!" statement in the least. Take your fan boy bloated egotism and go play some games at 400 FPS because that is all that matters.

JAB CreationsOh, you're still here. I thought you needed to spend 14 hours a day doing nothing but playing video games. Did you watch the video in the first post? Nope! "99.9%" - that doesn't sound like a biased Nvidia fan boy "I did zero research and make blind claims!" statement in the least. Take your fan boy bloated egotism and go play some games at 400 FPS because that is all that matters.

Tek-CheckMy Flight Simulator used ~15GB of VRAM in 2021 already.

Tek-CheckNo. They genuinely did not sell cards to ordinary folks. Miners have moved to ASICs. GPUs are not as profitable for them anymore. There has been a multi-million GPU flood on secondary market last year and people bought tones of GPUs, e.g used 3090 for $750 on ebay.

Official Nvidia documents show that they have more than $5 billion in inventory in stock, which suggests a huge amount of unsold GPUs that they do not want to release on the market in bigger numbers and lower price. Which means that people showed a middle finger to high prices of cards and did not buy them.

Tek-CheckPerhaps. I remember there was an outcry against low memory capacity on 3080. They gradually patched the card with additional 1GB in each new edition. And now they offer 16GB on the same class 4080, which is much better and makes me more hopeful that 5090 might be a card for me if VRAM further evolves and prices are lower.

claesTBF MS Flight Simulator caches as much data as possible. Most testing shows that this only has an effect on performance at 4K. At lower resolutions it’s just extra buffer.

bugClaim to use over 10GB VRAM at 4k, 3080 sees no performance hit because of that.

bugNot so much an outcry, as a knee-jerk reaction.

Tek-CheckIt's hard to say. 3080 is on average 5-7% faster than 6800XT in 4K play. In this game they are neck-to-neck. The game claims ~12GB of VRAM in 4K. Perhaps those 2GB missing hits the performance of 3080 for a few percentages, but there might be other reasons, of course.

Possibly, but this deterred me from Nvidia's high-end cards for at least two generations. I still have a low-power Ampere card on a small HTPC system.

bugIf I may offer a piece of advice (which I probably shouldn't), buy based on real-world benchmarks, not based on spec sheets.

claesLooks like amd's GPU sales might actually be pretty far behind nvidia's:

www.tomshardware.com/news/sony-becomes-largest-customer-of-amd