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Captain_Yuri said:

Yea pretty much. I think Linus is the only one that's been giving rave reviews for both the 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti and his logic is, it's slightly faster for $600 compared to today's MSRP so get one! But to me, that's kinda nonsense cause those that are watching the reviews are probably going to wait until the prices normalize anyway before picking one up. And yea, the 8GB is a bit too low for it's price bracket. Ironically the laptop version of the 3070 Ti, the 3080 mobile has a 16GB option with the same cuda count but granted lower bandwidth ram. If the 3070 Ti had 16GB of vram, even with it's slight increase in performance, I think it's added price would have been a lot more justifiable.

His argument is that its a decent price at the current market conditions (which to be fair, is somewhat true) but as a reviewer and owner of a huge channel and equally large audience, its quite irresponsible to recommend product/s that offers so little (even to their own existing 70 and 80's) and so poor value for money. Just because a company releases something, and is in stock doesn't mean its good and that you should buy it. Imagine if Sony or Microsoft released a Pro model now with so barely offering anything new but $100 more. Is it a good product because its in stock?

Linus has some good videos and are entertaining buts he need to stop with these enabling videos. Nvidia are treating its end users like trash with moves like this and they know they can get away with it because people are willing to spend (or overspend) over the odds to actually get something.

And yeah, its odd they put more more VRAM in laptops maybe its because there is less demand for gaming laptops for gamers. 8GB VRAM is not enough for a $500 card nevermind $600 one, and Nvidia double downs on it and replacing with GDDR6X, meaning poorer efficiency - by 30%! They should have just slapped 12GB of VRAM on the 3070Ti and 16 on the 3080Ti and called it a day.

Yea pretty much. Cause unless you were able to get a 3080 Ti or 3070 Ti within the first 5 seconds after they launched, the whole "it's a good value in the current market conditions" point that Linus made is moot. Cause now it's all terrible pricing again... Yet you just know some person is going to watch his review and think, oh wow, he's saying it's such a good deal when in reality it's not. The worst part is, imagine for their next gen GPUs, Nvidia and AMD took into account mining and scalpers when pricing their GPUs. It would be horrible landscape and that's the type of thinking is what we need to stop. It's why every reviewer need to call them out when they do have bad MSRPs because if reviewers don't even in the current market, then next time, it will get worse.