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Nvidia must have been drunk when they made the RTX4060TI!
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Just what is NVIDIA up to?
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Nvidia must have been drunk when they made the RTX4060TI!
They were probably out partying till late with AMDs marketing team.
If we focus on the current gen GPUs there have been some price drops due to the slightly stronger pound. The 4080 is about £150 cheaper than release price but still £1050 + for the cheaper models. The problem is that there seems to be price reductions and game offers in AMD cards.
So the price/perf disparity between AMD and Nvidia is widening right now.
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I wouldn’t call that a problem, it’s good news for the consumer, besides at this point no one really cares about the 4080 anyway. Want the best then get a 4090 otherwise just get AMD or skip the gen completely.
High higher end prices means high mid and low end prices.
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Can I ask what your card was prior to the 3080 FE and how long you kept that for?
There is a huge gap between each tier, you get the sense that Nvidia don't like people opting for the lower tier because "you know its nearly as fast and suits my budget better"
So you end up with situation where at the higher end a 4070Ti is 40% faster than a 3070Ti but a 4060Ti is no faster than a 3060Ti, its not even an upgrade really from a 2060S, +20%, 2 generations and 4 years, 20%
This is tunnel vision, they don't like the thinking and behaviour of their customers and their solution is sociopathic "procreate you female genitals!"
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A used GTX1070ti I picked up for £250 around the time Turing launched so I had it for a couple of years.
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You seem to keep your cards for a while so I suppose getting the best bang for buck is what you are aiming for. Next gen then or used I guess or heavily discounted current gen at the time of next gen (like the 6950xt is in price vs discounted 7900xt, £550 vs £699 respectively)
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Also HUB keep saying no more than 750USD for the 7900XT which is £588 converted.
That’s unrealistic surely to achieve price discount (unless well into next gen!?) in the UK/Europe?
That’s unrealistic surely to achieve price discount (unless well into next gen!?) in the UK/Europe?
I had a limited edition GTX 1070 for 2 or 3 years, usually red and black but they did a limited run of silver and black with the MSI shield in RGB in the backplate, i loved that card, sold it on the MM, i still have the images.... That's the card that got replaced with the MSI 2070S Gaming X in have now.
I've cleared out my Image host from crap several times since but never deleted there images, don't really know why, subconsciously i want to keep them.
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I might have been tempted with a 7900XT at £700 or a 7900XTX at under £900 if that was the prices they started out at but as we are nearly half way through the cycle I'd rather wait now.
I went for the used 1070ti as it was much cheaper than the new 2060, was the same speed and had more VRAM, I was temped to jump on the 2070 super when OCUK had them going for £435 around xmas 2019 but decided to wait as it was only a 30% uplift so waited for ampere and got a 130% uplift for just over £200 more.I had a limited edition GTX 1070 for 2 or 3 years, usually red and black but they did a limited run of silver and black with the MSI shield in RGB in the backplate, i loved that card, sold it on the MM, i still have the images.... That's the card that got replaced with the MSI 2070S Gaming X in have now.
I've cleared out my Image host from crap several times since but never deleted there images, don't really know why, subconsciously i want to keep them.
RE: the AMD fanboy accusation.
This is my mindset, Raster and VRam being equal i'll opt for the Nvidia GPU, i prefer AMD's driver UI, lets face its a million miles better than Nvidia's, AMD also has all the same driver features Nvidia have and the recording quality in H265 is identical, not quite as good in H264 which i don't use anyway, on top of that AMD's driver actually have a lot more features than Nvidia, useful cool features.
Those are not critical things. on the other hand Nvidia has better RT and DLSS, again not critical, i prefer to run in native image quality unless i have no choice, absolute last resort, RT in the rage i buy in and the resolutions l like to run that also almost never gets used as the performance hit is too much.
However it is those things that sway me toward Nvidia, at the same price.
With all of that said if AMD are 10% cheaper i'll buy that, right now only AMD have anything that interest me, Nvidia have absolutely nothing at all, not from this gen or the last.
This is my mindset, Raster and VRam being equal i'll opt for the Nvidia GPU, i prefer AMD's driver UI, lets face its a million miles better than Nvidia's, AMD also has all the same driver features Nvidia have and the recording quality in H265 is identical, not quite as good in H264 which i don't use anyway, on top of that AMD's driver actually have a lot more features than Nvidia, useful cool features.
Those are not critical things. on the other hand Nvidia has better RT and DLSS, again not critical, i prefer to run in native image quality unless i have no choice, absolute last resort, RT in the rage i buy in and the resolutions l like to run that also almost never gets used as the performance hit is too much.
However it is those things that sway me toward Nvidia, at the same price.
With all of that said if AMD are 10% cheaper i'll buy that, right now only AMD have anything that interest me, Nvidia have absolutely nothing at all, not from this gen or the last.
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OCUK are selling the 7900xt for £700, that's the pulse one as well. Apparently it's the premium edition Starfield that comes with it, which at full retail price on steam is £86.
So knock that off and you are down to £614 which isn't a million miles away.
I appreciate it doesn't exactly work like that, plus the game can be had cheaper through key sites etc, but it's getting there.
I hasten to add, I still think £600 for not even top tier GPU is crazy money really, but it's much better than anything Nvidia are offering right now in terms of value for money/bang for buck right now.
Now add 20% VAT.