4080 and 4085.Wait, what? You mean it's not just the amount of memory, maybe they should give them different names.
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The extra L2 cache is likely a cost saving measure as it enables nvidia to cut down the bus size
Caporegime
That makes the opposite of sense.
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Well I'm one of those who would rather just not play than play at a substandard level. It's like clay shooting, when I can't afford to do that anymore I'm not going to go paintballing just to experience something similar.
Yes, that is all true. They also didn't really hide it - when J.H. had a call just few weeks ago, with shareholders, he explained clearly NVIDIA's plans: manipulate the market, make sure 3k series sells without dropping pricing or margins, and by that make sure to not destroy high margins for future products of theirs (4k series and later). In short words, they want to uphold the high margins from mining-times, just because they think they can - irrelevant of any production cost increases. Satisfying the consumer has not been mentioned there at all. It's not really a secret, it's been posted all over the internet, but it had oddly small reach amongst gamers - most people seems to not have heard about it. Though, NVIDIA loves to forget that they do have growing competition (AMD and soon hopefully Intel) which will hopefully force them to adjust their thinking to be more real.Jensen is right, he just failed to explain his position by answering as if he's talking to 12 year olds.
The price of high end chips are not going down, just take a look at TSMC's pricing schedule - you can't manufacture the same size wafer on 5nm and expect it to be cheaper than 12nm, it ain't happening. This used to happen in the past, not only were smaller node processes smaller and more efficient but they were also cheaper to use.
We're just talking about the silicon here, one of many costs that go into a GPU and just cause the silicon cost has gone up doesn't mean the GPU needs to. Nvidia is purposefully designing the X pensive GPUs, it doesn't need to and it's purposefully trying to make very high margins and these things have a greater impact on GPU prices than the cost making a smaller transistor.
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I was sent an email from them a few hours ago notifying me of new stock. I opened the email 50min after and it was already sold out.. smh
Its a dangerous game because nvidia run the risk of pricing gamers out of PC's altogther, once they are lost to consoles it will be hard to get them back. The variable in the nvidia equation thats missing is poeples disposable income, in lockdown everyone had more money, thats over, very much so. We can only hope sales numbers are so low they have to adjust pricing.
you get more chips per wafer though so it evens out, the per chip price is all that matters
In my view - get 4090 only if you actually make money on it or are enthusiast with enough money for it to not matter much to you. If you'd have to take credit for it and want it more than need it, plus it brings you no money... that would be a really silly thing to do. In such case it's just a toy that will lose value rapidly for a bit of entertainment. I reckon each person would have to actually think about it before buying or face potential huge buyer's remorse later.
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They also suggest/recommend in the table in that article that 3k series (even 3080Ti and by that 3090) are good only for 1080p these days. Want 1440p or higher - only 4k series will be good, apparently. Details that it's 360FPS+ (number of people owning such monitors is miniscule) on full details only.Nvidia has released benchmarks for Overwatch 2
This is average FPS at 2560x1440p max settings.
Using the RTX3080 as a base, the rtx4080 12gb is 19% faster than the 3080. The 4080 16gb is 47% faster. And the rtx4090 is 105% faster than the RTX3080
Overwatch 2: GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs with NVIDIA Reflex reach 360+ FPS, 1440p
New 600 FPS frame rate cap and system latency as low as 8 milliseconds thanks to the unbelievable performance of GeForce RTX graphics cards, and the magic of NVIDIA Reflex.www.nvidia.com
Ah, the PR/marketing BS in full force.
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You only need a 4090 card if you play @4k or UW and want to chase fps to match a high hz monitor/TV.
Other than that, pick up a 3090 or 6900XT for very high performance on lower resolutions - these cards do well @ 4k anyway. DLSS 2.0 does a good job for games where implemented well.
Other than that, pick up a 3090 or 6900XT for very high performance on lower resolutions - these cards do well @ 4k anyway. DLSS 2.0 does a good job for games where implemented well.
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They also suggest/recommend in the table in that article that 3k series (even 3080Ti and by that 3090) are good only for 1080p these days. Want 1440p or higher - only 4k series will be good, apparently. Details that it's 360FPS+ (number of people owning such monitors is miniscule) on full details only.
To be fair, that's tagged as "competitive play" rather than for normal muggins.
Competitive peeps lower details a lot usually - and not just to pump FPS up, but also to remove visual clutter from the screen. Then that table would be of no use to them. Also, just looking at the table with latency per frame (which is directly comparable to overall latency whilst playing), with such high FPS number it's 1-2ms difference... No human being can perceive such small latency change, not even super-human competitive players.
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All fair points. Kind of a silly table really.
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add PC VR to that as well unfortunately even a 4090 isn't going to max out one of the higher end HMDs, VR is a cruel mistress
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1440p@144fps too - don't think there's any game out there with RTX that runs at 144fps at 1440p.
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I want a 4090 for VR purposes.
Smaller chips means more chips per wafer.I found a image showed cost per gates on 10nm and 7nm.
Cant find details about cost for 6nm, 5nm, 4nm and 3nm but found a image showed what TSMC cost per wafer and chip.
5nm wafer is really very expensive at $16,988 each.
This is due to smaller fab processes providing increased performance per area on chip, with increased density.
I hope I didn't bork the wording but I'm sure you know what I mean.
I think wafer cost doesn't compare to R&D cost, the focus is because it sounds like a lot to you and me when we see wafer cost.
In going back in time, what was happening is that smaller nodes would cost more $ in nominal terms, but the increase in density would far exceed the increase in price, effectively every new node was reducing the price per transistor - that's not happening anymore, the price per transistor on the latest nodes are now more expensive because the additional cost is exceeding the increases in density
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This is a widely ignored point when people say not to buy the 4090. I’m a VR gamer with a higher end set and definitely need the power boost!