Again I feel like we're telling people to do something they do not want to do. I'm not saying the advice isn't sound but when people make their mind up to spend money in a certain way or do something in a certain way you pretty much have to work in those constraints. You can talk until you're blue in the face about how people should spend more money and get the more vram option but I feel like this price bracket has shown time and time again that vram isn't a major issue.Yeah, I agree. It will depend on the individual use case but generally if you're gaming and intend to keep the card for 2+ years I wouldn't consider a 3GB or 4GB card when for a little extra you can get the 6GB or 8GB version.
Drink off brand beer for a week and you've already covered the difference
In fact, it seems the lower price brackets primary concern seems to be picking a gpu that won't overpower the psu that they severely skimped on for some reason.
Rather than looking at it from the enthusiast side where we have proper hardware to run a wide range of hardware options, many people in the market for these gpus skimped on parts we never would have.
When the average person barely has a couple thousand dollars in liquid savings $30-50 dollars can be a big deal to a lot of gamers.
You're said spend an extra 50 and you can turn the settings up. A lot of gamers say, I can turn 1 setting down, save $50 use that to buy a couple of games, and still play the same games everyone else is playing.
Just different ways of viewing things.
No surprise that gaming enthusiasts are not always graphics enthusiasts or hardware enthusiasts and thus will not see the same value of upgrading as much as users on here will