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Hiku said:

Yeah, it irks me that they launch their models backwards.
If you have a 3090, you're good. That is not the area that really needs improvement.
There are tiers that struggle to even play games competently (stable 60+ fps) at 1080p or 1440p.

The way things have shaped up over the last couple of generations, it seems intentional to treat those as an afterthought.
It's at the point where the low end cards effectively no longer exist if you want to play games competently for a reasobable price.
People are forced to pay a lot, no matter what tier they chose. And the more expensive the low end cards get, the higher of a price they can justfy for the mid to high end cards.

Intel are turning back the clock on that today. And I hope it pays off for them.

It irks me as well, but it makes sense from a business perspective, because launching your halo products first gets the type of consumers who want cutting edge as it comes off the press (like Apple fans who want the latest and greatest), and where price isn't an issue for them (which Nvidia has slowly been taking full advantage of these past few gens, as their prices have steadily been on the rise).

From another perspective, launching your strongest first means you can judge anything that comes after accordingly, based on the metric data of benches that were run on those two models, and then compared the ones released later that sit below them.