Why would you need it for? Not gaming for sure. AI, you say? Then fork up the cash. That's Nvidia's current MO. There's more demand for GPUs for AI than there

Why would you need it for? Not gaming for sure. AI, you say? Then fork up the cash. That's Nvidia's current MO. There's more demand for GPUs for AI than there are GPUs available, and most of that demand still has stupid amounts of money behind it (being able to get grants, loans or investment based on potential/hype) - money that can be captured by GPU vendors. Unfortunately, VRAM is the perfect discriminator between "casual" and "monied" use. (This is not unlike the "SSO tax" - single sign-on is pretty much the perfect discriminator between "enterprise use" and "not enterprise use".)