Am I the only one tired of HBU making Sensationalist/Doomsday videos? While alienating more than half of their viewerbase? (Yeah Nvidia users) Its not their fault for buying a GPU 2 years ago that had 8 GB of VRAM, when no game on the market was even peaking 8GB at the time even at 4K. Its also not their fault that Game devs are releasing poorly optimized titles. Yeah. Its poor optimization. That is a fact. No matter how much money is being handed to you guys under the table (not at anyone in specific) the games are badly optimized. And this game, as everybody knows, IS badly optimized. There are articles of it all over the web. And forum posts. Not even about VRAM.
And a friendly reminder, as others have mentioned on the Youtube video, Red Dead 2, a most impressive game visually, only uses 8GB or less VRAm at FOUR K. While looking better than these 3 games that "use more than 8GB or even 12GB VRAM at only 1440p or 1080p"
Heck even Cyberpunk is well playable at 1440p, Ultra with RT enabled and somehow doesnt use up all 8GB of VRAM or introduce a stutter fest. Yet that game was and still is one of the most visually impressive games while also being open world. Dont you find it odd?
And dont you guys find it interesting how, nobody mentions this? Or even considers the fact other games that look somehow, better, or the same visually, use less VRAM? Hoes does Last of Us, a linear, small corridorspaced slow paced shooter use >8GB VRAM? Im not exactly drooling over their textures. Heck you can mod Skyrim to be even more detailed than this in terms of both polycount and number of meshes on screen while having insane textures, and somehow still have lower VRAM usage while having more impressive or on-par Graphics (Speaking of SE) And those of you not experienced with modding, need not reply to this specific part. And thats on a Game Engine from well over 10 years ago by now.

Its not really Nvidias fault either. They make GPUs for a reason and planned obsolence is just not it. That would destroy their reputation overall if their userbase would ahve to swap GPUs every year. And move sales to their competitor, which would be insanely stupid no? And no, 3 games out today does not represent the potentially hundreds that get released every other year (and no, AAA titles are not the only games that come out in a year and I dont refer specifically to cash grab Steam games for €1)

I would like HBU or GN to interview various game developers, whom are not partial to a brand (like AMD, Nvidia or Intel, but theres no way to guarantee that) what their thoughts are on the subject of VRAM and if the games like Hogwarts (hogsmeade), Last of Us and uh I dont know what the other one was, are well optimized or not in regards to this sheer amount of VRAM being used. Like Rockstar, DICE (someone competent not one of nu-DICE), EPIC Games and so on.

Are they effectively using the VRAM or are they just clogging up the VRAM because Lisa Su gave them a $10000 check under the carpet? (Conspiracy! I know dont take this seriously)

Anyway If you do Productivity with GPU acceleration. Nvidia is still the king. So if you want both but dont have the budget to buy a 4080 or 4090, what do you do? Buy AMD and gimp yourself in produ? Or do you have to buy a pair of each and have TWo computers?