[etaioinshrdlu]

I suspect NVIDIA strategically releases models that just barely don't fit into their gaming grade GPU RAM size.

Clever market segmentation.

[corysama]

I suspect it’s convenience that has a side effect of being strategic. Research is always interested in what is only just now possible with the newest available hardware. The fact that it encourages you to pay for the most recent hardware motivates funding the research.

[mkagenius]

> NVIDIA strategically releases

You are giving too much credit to their competence to release any smaller sized model.