However, older generations still have some affordable options, such as the GTX 1650 ... Even the RTX 4070 has 12GB VRAM. Lots of AMD cards do, too; for example, the RX 7800 XT sports 16GB.

You can certainly get RX 9070 XT builds for cheaper than this, but the problem with cheaper ones is they tend to conflict against even cheaper RX 9070 (non-XT) builds which often get the upper ...