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Since when was 8GB RAM, let alone 8GB VRAM, a problem? Are you running ML models, video editing or some special games?? Or some weird poorly-written thing like Windows OS?
Software is a gas, it expands to use all available resources.
I have 32GB of RAM, and run out occasionally. At the moment I have two CAD programs, thousands of pages of datasheets and reference manuals, an IDE, and ~50 browser tabs open. I don't HAVE to have them all open at once, but it does save me a lot of time.
My next machine will have 128GB, and I expect that will run out of memory too.
Also, sometimes you need to use software that has a memory leak, so a bit of extra RAM gives you some more time before it crashes.
Photogrammetry can also get resource hungry.