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RTX 4070 12GB, is it Worth it?
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It should had been called 4070 and priced at around £450-£550.
It goes to show the uninitiated have no idea the games that are played. We hate it, but it undoubtedly works on a lot of people.
And you can even get one of the best versions/best coolers for £799 as well.
I think 12gb is ok for now, as the consoles don't have more.
However no doubt the ps5 pro and Xbox series X...X (?) Will come out soon and I reckon they will have upped the ram/vram to at least 16gb.
Tha could cause some problems next year on 12 GB cards.
Nah, I disagree. If you are a 1440p gamer and want to spend $$$ on a brand new card and intend to keep it for its 3 year warranty period, you want 16GB ram for sure.....
12 GB is already getting maxed out in 1440p in demanding games, 16GB or turn settings down/fps stutter along....
IMO that should be the 7900XTX price since its an 80 competitor and both 80 class cards from AMD and Nvidia were sub £650.
True, you see how easy it is to be brainwashed and mind ****** into believing the narrative they want you to start actually think is normal....
Depends - the developers ensure the games work within those confines by reducing texture sizes, assets etc. But if you want to turn everything up on the pc at a higher resolution and use features like RT then I would want more than 12GB. It’s ‘ok’ on a circa £500 4070, but not on a 8-900 quid 4070Ti IMO. No way I would pay that kind of money for a 12GB card. The 10GB 3080 was pushing it anyway and here we are almost 3 years later.
Much more comfortable with 20GB. £800 is still a lot for a GPU, but the 7900XT Nitro is a lovely bit of kit (so long as the fans work haha). I did think long and hard about getting the XTX but another £300 is a fair chunk, and I think the XT is even way more than I need on that particular machine anyway…
Public library mate, fully aircon and free to enter & remain all day, heavily engrossed in a novel, or go A&E tell them you bumped your head and feel dizzy & seeing stars, will keep you for observation overnight and even give a bed & breakfast, ofc all fully airconned
A night in a cell at a police station also has such services
No that should be the xtx , if Nvidia priced the 4080 at normal pricing i.e £650-£750 , AMD would have have called the 7900xtx the 7800xt as that's what it's competing against or even just went alone and done it imagine how much praise they would have got
But noo let's slightly have it lower cost behind 4080 and let's call it the 7900xtx even though it's competing against 80 tier card
Don't know what the 7900xt is all about, both AMD and Nvidia taking us for fools
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Yes and this is the launch of the 4070, it should be a lot higher if it was a good launch and a great launch the numbers would be going through the floor compared to the other cards.Are you reading the same data as everyone else?
From the top 8 cards, a total of 3,095 cards, only ~17% were RTX 4070's in release week - I am not sure how you consider that a success along with the fact the prices are being dropped.
I don't think £300 is worth the fairly small performance uplift in my opinion.
Exactly this is what they should have come out at in 2023. 4070 $499 and 7900XT $699... They would have had less complaints on prices and had more sales for sure right from the start. After a few months keep the price add some popular game bundle as a gesture and people again would have purchased again to keep sales constant and to clear built up stocks.
But sadly greed and testing the waters all the time both companies. In a time where people are struggling to pay their bills and the silly cost of living situation. They really couldn't have timed it worse to raise prices and mess with the tiers of their cards.. All related to the mining and covid lockdowns that made people spend more then because they were not able to go anywhere so wanted to be entertained/work at home and spent that money they would use to go on holiday or out on such things..
But these companies took it as people are willing to spend that and we have been under pricing our goods, which is not true just the time we were in at the time allowed people to justify such an expensive purchase.. Now in 2023 nope no one can sensibly justify such a purchase especially with our energy bills and bills just to eat.. These last 3 years need to remembered and never repeated again as sadly humanity as a whole looked pretty bad during that period.. From the people scalping, not wearing masks or keeping themselves safe from covid and others to all the silly things we saw... come on how low have we got when people were scalping toilet rolls and hand sanitisers of all things..
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lol at those developers.
Most games stutter regardless of how much vram is available or how much hardware you throw at them due to lazy ports.
They just admitted to doing lazy ports and looking for something to put the blame on.
Mate I’m on minimum wage…I know of someone that has bought a 4070Ti, not a big earner at all. I thought I was pushing the boat out at a 6950XT
I'm no Rockefeller either. I find it interesting that often some of these poor value items are bought by people that could spend it better elsewhere. I'm all for maximising my money. Never pay full price for anything
That describes Nvidia very well that word and also Intel in the past, now Intel are well a bit more humble but we will see how long that lasts too..
Nvidia needs a little humble pie too and Karma has a funny way to deal with things as we saw with Intel..
Time will tell as it always does... then grandpa leather jacket man will come out and play how nice he is and giving us all candies with our purchase that they can't sell or compete with a future competitor in the market.. This is why I dislike Nvidia and some companies they behave like narcissists or entitled spoiled kids and sadly to me that behaviour really turns me off.
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