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hinch on 17 May 2023
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Captain_Yuri said:
hinch said:

Sometimes makes me wonder what the point of Nvidia and AMD releasing these lower end/mid range GPU's are. Just price cut the 3070 to $350-380 and get rid of those old cards instead. Skip the 8GB model and release the 16GB for a slight premium.

Well to be fair, Lovelace does have additional benefits like a lot lower power consumption and dlss 3 but yea. It feels like they are gonna price the 8GB version the same as the 3060 Ti for 3070 level performance and then if the 16GB of vram rumour is true, probably will release it for $500. Most of these cards at their MSRP just feels awful to buy honestly but luckily, they are getting discounted a few weeks after and getting games bundled in. Thankfully the Ai craze isn't as wild as the crypto craze lol.

Yeah it does feel like we're going to see GPU prices fall anyways. Between the low sales and market reception from the RTX 4000 and RX 7000 series cards. And gamers disastifaction with general pricing. There has been quick price drops within months and even weeks going by recent releases. Could see the 4060Ti 8GB dropping the $350 during the holidays. And the 16GB well below $450 or under.

Also the 16GB model... should it be around 3070 levels of performance will be enough for most people. Especially for 1080P and even at 1440P. Its just the price points (again) is kinda bad and dissapointing considering the hardware offered and potential. But hey, its still improvement somewhat, much like the 4070 is, when compared to the rest of the stack.

And true, the new cards are fairly power efficient and have the new feature sets. Just wished prices were a little more reasonable at the base level and the rest of the stack readjusted. Will be interesting to see if both AMD and Nvidia play their cards for the rest of the year. Have a feeling we're going to see big cuts for the RTX series below the 4090.

Nvidia lucked out again by tech trends and Ai. They are making bank off selling to big tech companies so maybe less incentive to offer good value consumer cards. But hey at least its not GPU apocalypse where everyone including peoples grans wanted a GPU and miners and scalpers were sweeping up cards left and right. And you can actually buy a graphics card now at reasonable prices if you look around.

Last edited by hinch - on 17 May 2023