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hinch on 24 May 2023
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Pemalite said:

Normally I wouldn't give two shits that GPU's like the RTX 4060/RX 7600 have only 8GB because they are more budget conscious parts where price reflects the specifications.
Except the price isn't reflecting the specs or the performance.

It is all a side grade at best and a performance regression at worst.

And to advertise it as a "1080P" part is disingenuous.
1440P is the mid-range resolution these days... And mid-range parts should be competent at managing that many pixels.

GPU manufacturers are screwing themselves over, hopefully it results in reduced marketshare and we get a price correction... Because that is the issue, price.
The 4060Ti would have been far better at a RTX 3050 price point.

At bold, 100%. All the entry level cards are intentially handicapped with poor memory bandwidth and bus this generation. Which would be fine if they were 50 class cards and closer to $200. But here we are with $269-500 craptastic cards with performance that barely edges out last generation 60 class of old. Its embarrasing.. from both AMD and Nvidia. Top Navi 33 barely outperforms 23 on a enhanced step node and new architecture. Its laughably bad that they launched these cards. Utterly pointless.

Chazore said:

That is most definitely true. I have yet to see someone on this earth, that hasn't been tempted or swayed by leverage or support from someone or something, and refuse to allow it to sway your overall opinion (this is why I will always see buyers remorse and Stockholm as a thing, because people give off those vibes now more than ever).

I mean, you're not wrong about wanting it to be cited as the 4050ti, because when we look at the whole stack so far, the 4090 was supposed to be the 4080, the 80 was supposed to be the 70 and so on. All Nvidia has done is take out the Titan line, and replace the 80 brand with the 90 label, and called it a day (also we're seeing so many more Ti variants per series now, instead of Ti being largely reserved for mostly high to highest end cards). 

Yeah, not saying they are straight shilling. But that review felt like they were reading from their script from an Nvidia PR, with bullet points they got from an email. I mean the ending for that was hilariously bad take. Still beggars belief how they came to that conclusion lol.

The thing that goes for the while stack. The AD102 we have rn is still cut down and that's by far the best GPU released today. Thereafter gets progressively worst as you go down the stack. Which would be fine if it wasn't for the ridiculous mark up this generation. This gen has just been a giant upsell. Whether its to sell off old stock of GPU's or upsell consumers to the most they can afford.

Its utter lunacy and its no wonder people had enough of this shit. Hardly any gen on gen upgrades at MSRP. Just look at the RX 7600. Utterly pointless rn, at $269 with the amount of GPU's around that price range with similar to better value and specs. Which proves how poor of an architecure RDNA 3 is and why we shouldn't rely on AMD to pick up the pieces.