I don’t know, it’s been another year of overpriced GPUs that didn’t advance as much as some past generations have.
Overpriced, absolutely, but the 4080 and 4090 absolutely blow previous gens out of the water. Everything else does seem to fall on the side of incremental improvements, but nothing big
but the 4080 and 4090 absolutely blow previous gens out of the water
Just the 4090, the 4080 is not is not that big a jump compared to the 3090Ti. Considering the 4080 trades blows with the 7900xtx, can’t say that it blows previous gen out of the water
The 4090 isn’t that much better than the 4080, and the 4080 is much more energy efficient. I guess it all depends on what you consider “blowing previous gens out of the water” but that’s sort of marketing non-sense.
If you have a 3090Ti you aren’t going to be missing out anything on current gen games, and current gen developers aren’t in a hurry to develop exclusively for hardware most of their potential consumers aren’t going to be running on. So basically, it’s just “blowing previous gens out of the water” on flair at the moment.
So basically, it’s just “blowing previous gens out of the water” on flair at the moment.
Barring major changes in how things are done like rasterization to raytracing, the top end of the GPU market has always been about flair, as far as gaming goes, no?
Unfortunately, 4090 is the cheap man’s alternative for AI hardware, and with the China ban, it’s going to continue to be overpriced for the foreseeable future, well past the blockchain mining craze.
128-bit bus… that is pretty bad.
Even the non-TI RTX 3060 had a 192-bit bus and 12 GB of memory. The fact that a lower tier and older product sounds more appealing is a major error in Nvidia’s judgment for this generation of budget cards.
I don’t understand why they couldn’t keep pushing the 3060 until they were truly ready for a 4060 that’s better. You don’t have to release new products on every single segment every single time. Especially if they confuse the buyers of that segment.
I don’t understand why they couldn’t keep pushing the 3060 until they were truly ready for a 4060 that’s better. You don’t have to release new products on every single segment every single time. Especially if they confuse the buyers of that segment.
I think that’s why: confusing those less “hardcore” into thinking 4060 is a massive leap from 3060. It’s pure corporate greed and annoying as hell.
IMO the base 3060 is the best price/performance Nvidia card out right now and it’s over $100 cheaper than the 4060 Ti.
We seem to have hit a wall with CPU & GPU development, it’s not going to be easy to overcome it. My best guess is that future generations are going to have to focus on heat dissipation, because that’s basically the only thing left to improve.
