RTX 4070 12GB, is it Worth it?

Lightnix · 19 Apr 2023 at 23:58

"Germany's largest retailer" might have interesting and open data but it's fallacious to assume that it's representative of the global market.

edit in case it falls afoul of competitor talk rules even though I guess it's not really a competitor as they serve different markets

Troezar · 20 Apr 2023 at 04:58

It worth noting that there is a difference between being against a company, and being against their sharp practices. In the same way we have the words profit and profiteering. I think it used to be called morality

Bencher · 20 Apr 2023 at 08:34

humbug said:
The thing is that sort of hyperbole marketing works and its never questioned when Nvidia do it, which they do constantly.

If AMD do it the entire tech press have a field day with it.

And yes that ###### me off a bit, because while its funny and plainly ridiculous it does work and these two vendors are held to entirely different standards, its because the make fun of and ridicule videos get a lot of clicks, that's why they do them but wouldn't dare do it to Nvidia so they sit around waiting for AMD to make the slightest mistake.

How many of these tech jurnalists picked up the AMD cracked die thing? all of them, half of them even said...... "its AMD's drivers" because of course it is...... not one of them stopped to think about it critically for so much as 10 seconds because if they had they would have realised how ridiculous all that was.

Oh we agree, these 2 vendors are held to entirely different standards. Especially from you and other posters in this forum.

Author_25 · 20 Apr 2023 at 08:43

Have to buy the 4070 now.

ZOTAC & SONY announce GeForce RTX 4070 Spider-Man series - VideoCardz.com

SWING INTO ACTION WITH ZOTAC GAMING X SPIDER-MANTM: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE-THEMED GPUS! ZOTAC GAMING has teamed up with Sony Pictures to launch the “Power the Hero in You” campaign with limited edition themed products, in celebration of the upcoming release of Spider-ManTM: Across the...

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Jono8 · 20 Apr 2023 at 08:45

Author_25 said:
Have to buy the 4070 now.

ZOTAC & SONY announce GeForce RTX 4070 Spider-Man series - VideoCardz.com

SWING INTO ACTION WITH ZOTAC GAMING X SPIDER-MANTM: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE-THEMED GPUS! ZOTAC GAMING has teamed up with Sony Pictures to launch the “Power the Hero in You” campaign with limited edition themed products, in celebration of the upcoming release of Spider-ManTM: Across the...

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Looks hideous.

Surprised if there will be a market for these...

SpellowHouse · 20 Apr 2023 at 08:50

Author_25 said:
Have to buy the 4070 now.

ZOTAC & SONY announce GeForce RTX 4070 Spider-Man series - VideoCardz.com

SWING INTO ACTION WITH ZOTAC GAMING X SPIDER-MANTM: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE-THEMED GPUS! ZOTAC GAMING has teamed up with Sony Pictures to launch the “Power the Hero in You” campaign with limited edition themed products, in celebration of the upcoming release of Spider-ManTM: Across the...

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I sense a new trend...

Zotac Spiderman 4070 - £600, Gigabyte Hulk 4070 - £620, Asus Megatron - £690, Pornhub 4070 - £900.

uscool · 20 Apr 2023 at 08:52

Really are desperate to shift them somehow

Grim5 · 20 Apr 2023 at 08:53

That's so lame

Special edition cards should not just be a 5 minute paint job. They should be a unique custom cooler with custom features - like for that one maybe put a Spider-Man cut out in the center of the fans, put Spider-Man color RGB lights around the card and maybe have a little speaker on the card that can play some Spider-Man phrases on command and it should come with a copy of the new Spider-Man game

SpellowHouse · 20 Apr 2023 at 08:58

Grim5 said:
That's so lame

Special edition cards should not just be a 5 minute paint job. They should be a unique custom cooler with custom features - like for that one maybe put a Spider-Man cut out in the center of the fans, put Spider-Man color RGB lights around the card and maybe have a little speaker on the card that can play some Spider-Man phrases on command and it should come with a copy of the new Spider-Man game

I'm really surprised they haven't thought about it before.

Joxeon · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:14

muon said:
Well it's the best selling card for the week for that retailer, after only counting 2 days of sales.

To put in into perspective OCUK sold about 10k 3080s in one day compare that to the 1000 4070 cards ocuk had at launch that didn't even sell out.

SpellowHouse · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:30

Joxeon said:
To put in into perspective OCUK sold about 10k 3080s in one day compare that to the 1000 4070 cards ocuk had at launch that didn't even sell out.

It would be interesting to know how many would sell if they were a sensible price and NVIDIA hadn't built in obsolescence.

Troezar · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:35

SpellowHouse said:
It would be interesting to know how many would sell if they were a sensible price and NVIDIA hadn't built in obsolescence.

At £450 with 16GB they wouldn't be able to make enough!

JediFragger · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:35

SpellowHouse said:
Pornhub 4070 - £900.

SOLD!!

RanxZy · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:36

NVIDIA are actually in shocking form right now lol.

You can get a Asus TUF 4070 Ti for £900, what is essentially a 4060Ti in all intents and purposes.

JediFragger · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:36

Troezar said:
At £450 with 16GB they wouldn't be able to make enough!

6070 has your name written all over it lad!!

uscool · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:38

Joxeon said:
To put in into perspective OCUK sold about 10k 3080s in one day compare that to the 1000 4070 cards ocuk had at launch that didn't even sell out.

think it would be hard to match that even with sensible pricing was during covid/mining and was priced well to performance , and I think the market is more saturated now

Jono8 · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:44

muon said:
Well it's the best selling card for the week for that retailer, after only counting 2 days of sales.

It was a brand new release and barely sold more than cards that have been out ages. Those sales figures look immensely poor.

It's also being discounted less than a week after release which is 100% because it isn't selling anywhere near as well as expected.

The reality is that the 4070 at its current price point is a complete flop.

It looks like a decent card, but it is hilariously overpriced.

uscool · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:46

these kind prices dont work when no mining boom/ covid and market being more saturated with people over paying for previous gen

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 20 Apr 2023 at 09:55

uscool said:
these kind prices dont work when no mining boom/ covid and market being more saturated with people over paying for previous gen

They also did it with Turing after the last mining boom because they liked the higher prices.They tried to sell off Pascal stock at minimal price reductions and tried to reset the price upwards and it partially failed. Yet people's emotional belief in these tech companies makes them forget very quickly. Then if one does it the others does so too(Pascal enabled Navi MK1 to get upsold too). So everyone gets screwed over because of their immature Top Trumps mentality.

Jay85 · 20 Apr 2023 at 10:05

Author_25 said:
Have to buy the 4070 now.

ZOTAC & SONY announce GeForce RTX 4070 Spider-Man series - VideoCardz.com

SWING INTO ACTION WITH ZOTAC GAMING X SPIDER-MANTM: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE-THEMED GPUS! ZOTAC GAMING has teamed up with Sony Pictures to launch the “Power the Hero in You” campaign with limited edition themed products, in celebration of the upcoming release of Spider-ManTM: Across the...

videocardz.com

absolutely nothing special about these at all. Same cooler with a print on it to say its themed is so lame. Unless you're some sort of weeb, it won't appeal to anyone else.