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On the flip-side, every game worth playing uses 2GB vram or less at 1080p.
That's an absolute lie and you know it.
I don't even have a GPU, but to be honest I don't even game anymore cuz I work more hours then there are in a day
Even 8GB is fine to be honest, even at high settings. People are a bit dramatic about it.
Depends on the use case. And even at 1080p there are quite a few games that use 8gb or close to it. Ghostrunner and LOTF (2023) come to mind. Although tbf, I played the first one on my RX580 8G (I think) almost maxed out and it did fine.
But if you're buying a card now, especially at new modern card prices, you want to have at least a bit of future proofing.
Video editing and AI require as much VRAM as you can get. Not everyone uses the cards just for gaming.
Then don't buy the current-gen low-end card for video editing, mate. Get previous-gen with more vRAM, or go AMD.
I have a game that eats 11 gb of vram on low at 1080p (I play it on windowed). It suffers from some Unreal engine shenanigans and it's also a few years old.
Just like normal ram, if you have more to use then it'll get used. It doesn't mean it requires more than 8gb in order to run well.
I played all of Cyberpunk on high settings with 8gb.
You're not wrong, but then there's games like this that need at least 6 gb (more on dx12) to run on low without it running out of memory and either crashing or not launching. This is an actual issue with this particular game.
Edit: Cyberpunk has gotten a lot better though and will run on things it has no business running on.