Fun fact: if I got a full refund for my midrange GPU that I bought two years ago I couldn't buy a similarly powerful GPU today. I'd have to fucking downgrade like an animal because prices are rising so much faster than performance.
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"Most common" (i.e. statistical mode) is often such a misleading thing to pay attention to because it's so sensitive to how the person doing the study chooses to group things. For example, also on the Steam Hardware Survey, it looks like Arch is more popular than Ubuntu, but that's because Arch (being a rolling release) is only one entry, while Ubuntu is separated out into versions.
Similarly, "16GB is most common" is easily confused with "most people have 16GB," which is very much not true. It's just that the majority, which is less than 16GB, is divided between people with 4, 8, 12, etc.
Yeah, but once was 4GB, then 8GB and now 16GB, without any group being held by most people.
Its the leading group. It shows the transition.
Life is complicated, so summarising such things into a single number or a sentence comes with compromises. People just love to generalise and categorise things, no matter how feasible that really is. These summaries just scratch a very specific itch people seem to have.
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25.90%
Yes it is, although it is the most common at 25,9% only 10% have more, and more than 60% have less.
Ah thanks. I'd expect most people to be at 8-12 range. Laptops even lower.
I have no idea why your previous comment was downvoted? It's absolutely valid IMO, sad to see you deleted it.
16 GB is still high end, but at the same time it has a big marketshare. Probably from RAM being way cheaper not that long ago, so it was also upper mid range. But now it is absolutely high end IMO.
People kept assuming I don't know the difference between RAM and VRAM which got annoying. I probably could have worded my comment better but I don't care enough to fix it.
this is VRAM not RAM. 16gb is a lot.

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