Especially when cards are becoming limited by VRAM and you must choose between raytracing or high quality textures
I love this argument so much as it exposes the hypocrisy of some of these techtubers, so far we've had about 6 games that are limited by VRAM capacity at max settings, this number is certainly not enough to establish a trend going forward, especially as some of them got fixed by patches. And I remember very well that 6 ray tracing games were not enough for these techtubers to consider ray tracing important in the beginning, and still after dozens and dozens of ray tracing titles, they still consider ray tracing useless. But suddenly VRAM is now an important metric because of max texture setting in 6 games (some of which don't even change image quality by much as in the case of RE4)!
So, what makes maximum texture quality (that are limited by VRAM capacity) more important than ray tracing? If their excuse that most people don't care about ray tracing "using some random poll somewhere", then the retort is gonna be that most people don't care about max texture settings either, most people don't even care about max settings, most people are poor and don't care about 4K, or 120Hz, or even 1440p. Most people have 1080p monitors and play at low/medium settings using 3060 class GPU or lower.
This is just pure hypocrisy or technical illiteracy from these techtubers, I am leaning towards innate hypocrisy though, as they pick and choose their standards and change them when necessary to fit whatever personal preferences they have in their mind.
So are there any good PC hardware reviewers?
On Youtube? There is none. The only good sites left are PCGamesHardware, ComputerBase, and Comptoir-Hardware, and none of them is English. TechReport is gone, Anand just stopped, Techspot is just a disgusting copy of Hardware Unboxed, and Tomshardware is just a shadow of it's former self. Digital Foundry is the only remaining solid Youtube gaming reviewing platform, they cover everything thoroughly .. from frametimes, to ray tracing to upscaling to power consumption and cooling, ie: the good old established way of doing a review, covering all of the capabilities of the products.
As for the rest of these Techtubers, they exist only on a separate plain of reality, only catering for clicks and views coming from the absolute lowest common denominator of the average "joe" man. They no longer care about progress or tech, only what makes the "masses" eager to click. As a result, they no longer became relevant, their content is regarded as mere technical drama, and the recent marketshare statistics show that very little people are actually affected by them.
