Nvidia announces RTX 4000 series - Promises big performance, even bigger prices

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Remember the $900 12gb 4080 that Nvidia quietly unlaunched? They relaunched it as the 4070ti. But $100 price cut. Still $800 for a f'ing 70 card tho.
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.


And for some more technicals, here is the scruffy bastard himself being equally as unkind.

 

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Jay, Paul and Hardware Unboxed were no kinder to it.



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.

But this 40 series horseshit is absurd bordering on criminal and the more customers they lose to AMD and Console Gaming for their hubris, the better.
 

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the more customers they lose to AMD
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).

It's just (still) a bad time for anyone who needs a new video card.
 

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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).

It's just (still) a bad time for anyone who needs a new video card.
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.
 

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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.
Also, the CPU and GPU are AMD.
 

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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.