If they'd knocked off $300 and launched it as the RTX 4060 it would probably have flown of the fucking shelves, but based on what's said here its a load of bullshit.
Nor should they be. I’m a staunch nVidia user for most of my PC Gaming lifetime because their cards have been the benchmark - more or less - in performance, stability and longevity where AMD have (with two exceptions) caused me nothing but grief.
Unfortunately AMD has managed to crap their pants in unique ways this generation too- with the utterly pointless XT and the overheating issues the reference-model XTX has been seeing (possibly from not having enough evaporative liquid in the vapor chamber).
Yeah, this whole generation is a bust. I would honestly just recommend people to get a PS5 if they need a gaming machine right now, but that advice would also be pretty useless BECAUSE YOU STILL CAN'T GET ONE OF THOSE.
Aren't they a specific SKU though? They’re not off the shelf units as I recall it. Of course I could be wrong.
Yeah, the PS5 uses a tailormade system on a chip APU. Based off AMDs rdna2 (i.e. 6000 series cards) but still a custom job.
Past 2 gens (current and last gens of Sony and MS consoles used modified AMD kit.
You could be but you sren't.
I know you're right and it'll come down to AMD making a move to change anything. I am so damn tired of my 1060, although I should really shut my mouth because most games have minimum specs lower than that lately.
The only reason I can come up with for nVidia's actions lately is that Huang wants video cards to become luxury items.
They sort of always were luxury items. A PC doesn’t strictly need one to be used for the applications 98% of people use one for. But like the automobile industry we sort had worked out how to get great power and performance to a bigger market with things like the 70 and 60 series cards while still maintaining a prestige line for those with too much disposable income or highly specific use cases. It’s not so much that Jensen (we’re still not asking for this) wants to make video cards luxury items but rather he wants to get away with charging Porsche 911 prices for V6 Mustangs.
You can get a used or refurbished 2070 for like $200 and it'll play most games at 1440p medium/high at over 100fps.
New at $200 is this one. Might get this in the interim if the 4070 doesn't drop to $400 by Q1 2024, get a few years out of it and upgrade as necessary. Funny, 1 8 pin connector, 500w power supply: I could R&R my 480 in my current rig for now without changing anything else out. Tempting.
Look I'll be honest, an even $300 sounds like it would be just right for an 8GB XX60 card if one takes general inflation into consideration.
