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Why can't graphics cards just have more memory?

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Mar 15, 20261386 views
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Something I never understood, why do graphics cards usually have small amounts of memory on them? I know memory isn't everything, but surely it's pretty cheap just to load 4gb of memory on any old graphics card?

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It's not cheap, per se, but it could be done, yes. It'd raise the price of the card, but it could be done. Question is, though, why bother? If your card isn't fast enough to actually need 4GB of VRAM, it's wasted money, what's the point. You can hav…

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