One last time: you can call the $400 4060 Ti and the $500 upgrade unacceptable, while both cards become acceptable when base card drops to $300. That's fine, we have common ground here. What doesn't work though, is saying at the same time that the extra 8GB makes little difference. This invalidates the idea that the base card price is the problem, because it makes the 16GB not worth at any price point as long as the base card is ~$100 cheaper.
If the 16GB card is a (theoretical) good buy at $400 then all the discussion about cherry picking game settings in reviews to make the 8GB card look bad is moot, you acknowledge the difference is worth your money.
Saying a price is acceptable. Doesn't mean I must run out and buy it, or even choose it over another acceptable option if both were available. Saying the $300 8GB and $400 16GB cards are
both acceptable doesn't mean I have to choose the 16GB version. I can still chose the 8GB version, or I could choose the 16GB, that's what "both" acceptable means.
My point all along is that the price of the upgrade isn't the problem, with these cards is not the price of the upgrade, it's the base price of the cards. Many people have made a big deal out of the $100 upgrade cost like it's a rip off, and I was making it clear that I don't think that is the issue.
8GB doesn't make $100 worth of difference
for gaming for me(there may be non gaming use cases that make it worth it...) , because you can just easily adjust settings and not have issues. I've basically
tweaked settings in every 3d game I've ever played, so it's not like this is some kind of major egregious problem, and as already discussed by HWUB, Playing at Ultra is just dumb, yet they turn around and act like the sky is falling if you can play Ultra+RT on every game. Show me the game that can't be fixed with a couple of settings, or you know just starting at high instead of Ultra, as suggested by HWUB in their previous video. IMO, for lower end cards ($300 and below), this molehill has been made into a mountain. Just adjust the settings.
Right now, I'm kind of in limbo because all choices are kind of unpalatable. I would have preferred the 4060 Ti had been 12GB with a wider bus from the start( probably would outperform 3070), and have been better for both gaming and potentially other uses like Machine Learning. A better all rounder, to make the $400 price acceptable.
As it stands the 4060 Ti pricing is just too high for what you get, 4060 is lower on the performance tier than I really want to go, and 4070 is very nice but really beyond what I wanted to pay... (I've never paid more than $300 CAD for a GPU - 4070 is $800 CAD).
I have all these cards and more in an Amazon wish list that I check daily looking for something to make one of the options more palatable.
I had hoped for AMDs N32 cards to be here and competitive by now, to force NVidia to lower prices... 😈