At this point, there's little that hasn't been said about the significant drawbacks of GPUs with 8GB of VRAM. These bottom-of-the-barrel cards are disguised as affordable performers, but they are easily beaten by AAA titles even at 1080p. Sure, countless gamers don't daily AAA titles, but the era of 8GB VRAM should have ended long ago.
When smaller competitors like Intel can offer 12GB of VRAM on budget models, what's stopping Nvidia and AMD from doing at least that? However, GPU manufacturers will always do what's best for business, and skimping on VRAM seems to be working well for them. With old and new VRAM-saving tricks constantly improving, and a terrible market forcing people to buy subpar products, 8GB VRAM GPUs will not become obsolete anytime soon.