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.
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.
They’re jumping straight from 8 to 16. I wonder why they explore the in-betweens so little.
The VRAM size is tied to the memory interface. Basically you can’t just pick a random VRAM amount (short of literally disabling part of it).
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.
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?
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.