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NVIDIA 4000 Series
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Not sure why people are complaining the 4090 is too big. IMO it's a good thing - means it's quiet and runs cooler.
Very happy with my 4090 Strix. Used daily for work/play since 13th of October, settled on a 350W profile (70% power target), quietest card I've used in years and had 0 issues.
Hope the 5000 launch is as good, stock on day 1 etc
Been gaming using a 4070 Ti for nearly 8 weeks now. It is amazing the performance per watt you get. These cards all run very cool and quiet (a lot better than turing and ampere). Drivers have been top notch.
This reminds me of the pascal die shrink which was just dominant.
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I’ve got a 3060ti at the minute and quite happy with just over 100fps on Max 1440p at most of my games (MW2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider-Man without RT etc) - do you think I would see a massive upgrade with a 4070ti? Or just wait for another gen and get whatever is reasonable then? Thanks.
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Exactly, and they know it (hence the cash-in).
If you are happy, then you should never waste money upgrading.
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Soldato
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The longer you wait the better and cheaper upgrade you get. Upgrade only when you need to, not before.
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This has never been more true than it is now. The prices of GPU's have reached just insane levels. People really have to get out of the mindset of upgrading "because it's the latest".
I still feel really sad that NVIDIA have destroyed my "hobby" but I can no longer justify the prices. It's going to be a long time before I upgrade my graphics card and really that's the way it should be. Buying the latest shouldn't be a hobby!!
LOL, you are paying more than last gens flagship for 15% more performance, pascal moment my ass. Who knew? on a smaller process node with huge coolers they would run cooler and quiet.. mind blown.
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Unless it’s your hobby, which in my case it is.
Anyone got a release date for the 4090ti?
jk
Bitterness.
Enjoy staying on whatever card you have forever.
It is also a lot less than last year's 3090 and even 6900XT flagship cards.
A lot of people are very happy with their high performing cards, even if you are sour about it all.
You also make it sound like nvidia didn't decide to use a very good process node and AIBs didnt decide to add good coolers. Exploiting physics and engineering is creditworthy.
Maybe you should start a GPU company since it is so easy to make good cards. Maybe help AMD with their coolers.
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Best advice you can give.
Upgrade based on what you need not what these companies tell you you need.
It's worth remembering that no existing graphics cards actually provide a high performance level with RT enabled.
The ones that come closest, like the RTX 4090, which costs £1,599 or more. It should be a relatively small consideration for most gamers.
The ones that come closest, like the RTX 4090, which costs £1,599 or more. It should be a relatively small consideration for most gamers.
I wouldn't expect anything less for the money you have to pay for one lol.
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surely that depends on which games you play. My current main game (as in about 50% of play time) has been pinball, mainly pinball FX3, but the next iteration pinball FX has just been launched (Steam release expected in April, on PC its on Epic at the moment) which includes ray tracing, and shouldn't need top end cards to enable it (especially if not also running at 4K at the same time).
I don't disagree.
Dlss for web browser video playback is now out, update to the latest driver and test with Google chrome, you can change the upscaling settings in the driver to upscale the video up to 4x the base video resolution
Some testing here https://www.computerbase.de/2023-02/rtx-video-super-resolution-test/
Some testing here https://www.computerbase.de/2023-02/rtx-video-super-resolution-test/
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Well, it was in my case, but they have "priced me out" now. I can't justify the prices they are charging for graphics cards now. I used to upgrade every two years. That will probably change to upgrading never! I mean I really can't foresee a time when I have £1000 to spare to spend on a graphics card.
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Console time.
Unless you are chasing high resolution hz panels then you don't need the latest and greatest, no where near.
If PC gaming has become too expensive then select a resolution to run that you can afford. Some of the ultrawides and 4k take lots of GPU horsepower. Muddied with technologies such as DLSS3 and Frame generation to chase these high resolutions and must have high fps.
2560x1440 will suit most gamers or 3440x1440 at a push. Much cheaper to run and still have decent IQ with high fps. Sweet spot apparently, cant tell the difference to 4k, RT is a waste, DLSS & Framegen is cheating.
Don't chase running high resolutions, particularly with new games on release = PC gaming affordability
But a lot of the hardware journalists seem to push 4k ultra with ray-tracing continuously,
4k ultra gaming @ 60fps is still very unaffordable at moment,
Works pretty well on old VHS type content that’s been uploaded at 360p/480p on YT. It does help clean up the image and make things a bit sharper compared to the original. Definitely plenty of room to try and improve the quality if they can as it does kind of look like what DLSS 1 was with a vaseline filter over the screen with very low quality video as the source.