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Since when was 8GB RAM, let alone 8GB VRAM, a problem? Are you running ML models, video editing or some special games?? Or some weird poorly-written thing like Windows OS?
Nowadays even at 1080p 8GB of Vram doesn’t cut it.
Doesn’t cut what? Web browsing? Watching videos? Playing new games?
Software is a gas, it expands to use all available resources.
I have 32GB of RAM, and run out occasionally. At the moment I have two CAD programs, thousands of pages of datasheets and reference manuals, an IDE, and ~50 browser tabs open. I don’t HAVE to have them all open at once, but it does save me a lot of time.
My next machine will have 128GB, and I expect that will run out of memory too.
Also, sometimes you need to use software that has a memory leak, so a bit of extra RAM gives you some more time before it crashes.
Photogrammetry can also get resource hungry.
I have 3GB of VRAM. 8 would be great!
In university, they stopped giving out software licenses for personal machines in favor of letting students connect to virtual machines they hosted. They allocated 8GB of RAM which wasn’t horrible at the time, but they only allocated 4GB of storage. Only time I’ve ever seen that ratio.
The software industry show you quickly that 8GB, independent where, isn’t by far enough. Since HW programmed obsolence is out, since current PC last more than a Washing machine, they do it with min sys specs of their products. The times, where a 3D FPS was released in a single 96KB file is far away.
Still downloadable as Abandonware https://www.myabandonware.com/game/kkrieger-chapter-1-cl1
I remember the OS running from an 51/4" cardboard Floppy
