hinch said:
Could also be Nvidia testing the market with these 'leaks' and see how people react to these prices. Gaslighting figures to AiB's and adjusting if nessessary. Or those sources/MLID just spouting nonsense. Maybe something lost in translation and its Nvidia's suggested MSRP for AiB is $750, not for Founder Edition. Though I wouldn't be at all surprised if Nvidia tried this. We did have that 4080 12GB > 4070Ti debacle and even that ended up overpriced for its tier. Feels like Nvidia is happy selling 4090's and lesser quantities for the rest of the stack at higher margins and pushing 3000 series onto everyone else. I mean if they priced the 4070 too low, they'd eat into the 3000 series market. And they have a shit ton of ampere stock to shift. But yeah, this generation is an easy skip if you have a good enough (last gen) GPU already. With AMD near enough MIA with the rest of RDNA3 stack and Nvidia running rampant, the GPU market has stagnated; offering nearly no price/performance value up from last gen. Which hasn't happened since the Turing days. But now, its worse than ever. |
It could certainly be Nvidia trying to figure out how much people are willing to spend on their cards. So far they've learned that their consumers are "happy" to spend $1600 on a xx90 card and it also seems that $800 on a xx70 Ti card is also fine. The $1200 of the 4080 didn't pan out, tho, at least not with that performance drop. So yeah, Nvidia could be trying to find out if "we" would bite the trap on a $750 xx70 GPU.
But we'll see.
As for AMD, they're attitude it's quite strange. We know that they're better at keeping secrets that Nvidia, but the lack of news regarding any of the Navi 32 GPUs is starting to be worrisome. It's another sign that AMD wasn't ready to launch its cards and rushed to launch something, which brought lots of troubles.
It also makes you wonder if that rumor/leak about Navi 31 stating that it had a bug that prevented it from reaching the planned higher clocks (remember the 3GHz frequency rumors?), a bug that they would fix in Navi 32, had some truth in it. It could explain why AMD is so quiet about the rest of their lineup, because they still have to fix several problems.
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