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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti “Full-Fat AD102” Graphics Card Pictured With Massive Triple Fan Cooler

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-ti-full-fat-ad102-graphics-card-pictured-massive-triple-fan-cooler/

Vega, is that you?

I said it before and I'll say it again: knowing the specs of the mid-cycle refresh cards before the original cards launch is depressing. Why would someone, in a regular, non-crypto booming market, buy a 4080 when it launches when, in 12-18 months you know that you'll get something more powerful, with more VRAM and, again, in a non-crypto hell situation, for the same or only slightly more money?

OIh, and yes, that card resembles the old Vega cards.

I don't think it's too big of a deal mainly cause we always had an idea of the refreshes of cards cause Nvidia always launches their expensive flagships. For example, when Nvidia used to do their titans, many people would wait for the xx80Ti variants because you could get Titan level performance for sometimes half the price. I think it's mainly about the cycle you are in. You buy a 4080 now, you are in the launch cycle where as if you buy a 4080 Ti, you are in the Ti cycle. Personally I like to be on the 80 cycle cause you always get that massive leap over last gen while getting the crucks of the technologies and you get the full cycle of the GPU gen... Where as the 80Ti versions are 20-30% faster than the 80 series but will get "outdated" sooner by the next gen.

But on the other hand, if you want to keep the GPU the longest, the 80Ti is usually the better choice cause it generally gets most amount of Vram and Cuda cores for that generation while being at a reasonable price pre-Turing. So it depends whether you upgrade every two or so years or if you want to keep it for a long time.

We didn't always knew about the refreshes. All these Ti or Super cards started with the 10x0 series and before that we could get the very high end Ti orsome rare entry in the mid-range card to tackle AMD. What's going on now is completely different and changes the playground because before, you "knew" that the card you were getting was the best Nvidia could do at the time for that money. But now, with all the Tis we know will come in the future, what we get is the second best option.

Now, I'm not saying that there shouldn't be Ti/Super or any of those refreshes, but you shoud start designing them after the launch of the new cards, not alongside them.

But well, since both the 12 and 16GB could launch at the same time for some kind of bizarre decision by Nvidia (unless the 12GB one is the 4070), all this is moot talk.

Captain_Yuri said:

Lies of P on Steam has some weird system requirements:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627720/Lies_Of_P/

"Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6700 / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060"

Either it will be horribly optimized for AMD which would be a surprise since they demod it during their press event or they are just randomly throwing out GPUs as place holders.

It could be the ray tracing requirements- That's trhe only explanation I can think of.