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Mummelmann said:

JEMC said:

Thanks, Rhonin.

So, from the leaks we've had, it looks like the 4070 will perform like a 3080. Two and a half years later, we'll be able to have the same performance (plus 2GB more of VRAM!), for $100 less.
Yeah, for some reason I can't get excited by any of these new GPUs.

Yeah, the shitshow continues with the 4070. I still can't accept the fact that lower middle cards go for enthusiast prices now. I wonder how quickly the lower end 40xx cards will become obsolete at this point? Not just with VRAM limitations and throttled bandwaith, but for sheer performance. They can't hide everything behind DLSS either. I think this generation will be seen as a try-and-fail scenario in hindsight, and that some more proper designs will reveal themselves in the coming generation. I would wait one more year or 18 months, but I just can't hold off any longer, my rig is getting seriously old.

I can't say I'm as optimistic as you are. You think this gen will fail and things (or well, Nvidia) will come back to its senes and price their products accordingly, but this could also be the gen kills PC gaming as we know it, with GPUs either priced well above their usual price point and mid and lower end users having no good upgrade path as the cards being offered to them aren't good enough.

It's a shame that MSoft has decided to kill its $1 GamePass offer, because I can see this situation as a great opportunity to bring people to cloud gaming, even if I don't like it.

But well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe people will start to act with common sense and give the middle finger to Nvidia and its overpriced products, something that hasn't happened yet with its 4000 GPUs (the poor sales of the 4080 doesn't count because people decided to spend more and get the 4090). And maybe AMD will bring some competition to the table, splitting the market in two: the high end for Nvidia and the mid and low end for AMD. Intel is currently out of the question if their next GPUs won't come until next year.

But I can't really say that I'm too optimistic about it.

I find it funny that you can't wait any longer for a new PC given that I'm thinking about waiting a bit more for my upgrade. The number of problems people seem to have with their motherboards and DDR5 on AMD is surprisingly high, and giving them a few extra months to squash those bugs out seems... like a sensible thing to do.