A slap to those who went on the AMD commercial with the extra memory. You hang on to anything if you can't keep up with the competition.
Intentional release of an identical chip but equipped with different memory to destroy this myth, almost impossible to dismantle with different chips and architectures.
Why is it nonsense, even in the case of the much praised 6700XT? Because the graphics chip is the first limited. It dies before the vRAM limit. Of course a 4090 or 4080 would be severely affected by 8GB, but they are very powerful chips. And 13900K can be limited by 16 GB, but not an i3.
nVidia has silently launched the 16GB version. They knew it didn't bring anything extra, but somehow they had to get in the way of those from AMD and their allies, such as HU. Without the commotion created by AMD with extra vRAM, something tells me that the 4060 Ti 16GB was never born.