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    2 days ago

    Easier to sell the more expensive 16 GB cards. If the difference between the two would be smaller then people may be less inclined to go for the higher model.

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      2 days ago

      Hmm, I see. I imagine there might be an engineering reason too. Maybe there’s some advantage to only ever halving/doubling memory for a given chip?

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        I guess that could be depending on the producer of those vram chips themselves. If 8 GB is the standard size, then a 12 GB design would be likely more expensive to produce. 24 GB cards could be both out of 2x 12 GB or simply 3x 8 GB, so if you just order a buttload of 8 GB you’d save quite a bit of money.