Eli5:Why does nvidia put so little vram?

Question

If nvidia or amd made a 12gb vram gpu equivalent of the 3060ti I definitely would buy it, why design the 3060 to have 12gb of vram but make the 3060ti and the 4060ti with 8gb of vram?

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You don’t need more VRAM when the RTX 4060 Ti leverages the AD106 architecture, which yields improvements in efficiency and performance when compared to the GA104 architecture of the RTX 3060 Ti. They will have a 16GB variant for the RTX 4060 Ti in July, so your VRAM point is kind of irrelevant. In other words, VRAM isn’t everything.