RTX 4070 12GB, is it Worth it?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 15 Apr 2023 at 13:08

AMD has licensed RDNA as a uarch to Samsung:

Samsung and AMD Renew GPU Architecture Licensing Agreement: More RDNA Exynos Chips to Come

www.anandtech.com

I have a feeling they will continue to have some higher performance models for the desktop just for dev purposes IMHO. If not as mentioned above devs won't have compatible PC platforms to work on.

SpudMaster · 15 Apr 2023 at 13:15

mrk said:
True, either way though the way things are going, it's about time everyone just got used to increasing prices. Everything everywhere has gone up massively compared to in the past, not just PC parts!

Jensons conditioning in full effect right here

JediFragger · 15 Apr 2023 at 13:58

SpudMaster said:
Jensons conditioning in full effect right here

JediFragger · 15 Apr 2023 at 13:58

Gotta be an old-ish bugger to get that!!

Alt0153 · 15 Apr 2023 at 14:02

JediFragger said:
Gotta be an old-ish bugger to get that!!

i dont like it

Drollic · 15 Apr 2023 at 14:34

Still happy with 3080 perf here. Cyberpunk got uninstalled even after its 379th patch, flying round on broomsticks is bordering on a joke and what's the latest, a remake from 10 years ago in the last of us and then another remake that isn't even resident evil. Did I mention dead space remake. I'm holding out for 5000 series to play early access remake of a remake.

Author_25 · 15 Apr 2023 at 14:43

Drollic said:
Still happy with 3080 perf here. Cyberpunk got uninstalled even after its 379th patch, flying round on broomsticks is bordering on a joke and what's the latest, a remake from 10 years ago in the last of us and then another remake that isn't even resident evil. Did I mention dead space remake. I'm holding out for 5000 series to play early access remake of a remake.

I am looking forward to Pong with path tracing.

Murphy · 15 Apr 2023 at 14:57

Joxeon said:
You think AMD would at least like to have a go considering they would only need a card as fast as last gen for $50 cheaper to match what nvidia has put out.

While they have failed to get near nvidia at the high end you would expect a 20% performance increase for the same price at the mid range even in a bad year.

This is pure speculation from me but i suspect AMD are playing a much longer game, as are Nvidia. There's currently a limit to how small we can make transistors and how big a die is, there's a limit to how much performance we can get using traditional methods. Nvidia seems to be betting on AI while AMD are betting on connecting multiple chips together, both are trying to solve the same problem and i guess we'll find out who's right in the next 10+ years.

TNA · 15 Apr 2023 at 14:58

JediFragger said:

I was going to post something like that. But it would probably get reported for baiting or something again by the same lot :cry:

I doubt @CAT-THE-FIFTH was bothered my post earlier for example

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 15 Apr 2023 at 15:13

TNA said:
I was going to post something like that. But it would probably get reported for baiting or something again by the same lot

I doubt @CAT-THE-FIFTH was bothered my post earlier for example

I was wondering what that post might have been!

Drollic said:
Still happy with 3080 perf here. Cyberpunk got uninstalled even after its 379th patch, flying round on broomsticks is bordering on a joke and what's the latest, a remake from 10 years ago in the last of us and then another remake that isn't even resident evil. Did I mention dead space remake. I'm holding out for 5000 series to play early access remake of a remake.

So true. Then Atomic Heart,which was meant to be this mega showcase of RT,then launched without RT and seems to run OK on most hardware!

stooeh · 15 Apr 2023 at 15:14

TNA said:
Mine was around similar time. I got a good deal through a paper cutout from Curry's I think. Was £400 but had a AMD K6-2 400MHz which was better than a Pentium 400MHz at the time. It had 32MB of RAM and now I have 32GB

Not long after my upgrading obsesion began

Had a K6 2 350MHz at one point iirc, was great. Might even have been free as had a mate that used to give me his old CPUs when he upgraded

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 15 Apr 2023 at 15:30

I can't believe it was nearly 20 years ago when we had unlockable dGPUs. Started with the ATI Radeon 9500 and the Nvidia Geforce 6 6800LE. Had one of the latter which unlocked to a 6800GT core config,and overclocked a bit higher(but the VRAM was a bit slower).

Purgatory · 15 Apr 2023 at 15:30

Calin Banc said:
Redfall launches with just a 30fps mode on consoles, plus other issues with games, they're not magic, just different side of a coin. Like with a graphics card, it may work for you or it may not.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647243715168153600

TNA · 15 Apr 2023 at 15:50

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I was wondering what that post might have been!

Haha. Knew it was not even you who reported it

Was just a triggered gif. You would have found it amusing like others. Was certainly not baiting. Oh well

TNA · 15 Apr 2023 at 15:54

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I can't believe it was nearly 20 years ago when we had unlockable dGPUs. Started with the ATI Radeon 9500 and the Nvidia Geforce 6 6800LE. Had one of the latter which unlocked to a 6800GT core config,and overclocked a bit higher(but the VRAM was a bit slower).

I unlocked my 9700 to a pro version via BIOS. I am not sure but I think may have also had to do something to the card too. I remember ******** myself doing it as it was the first time I had got a expensive graphics card.

The 9700 was like £170ish and the Pro version was like an extra £100 as I recall. I was so happy when it worked :cry:

Now it's all done for your convenience (as in you have to pay for it)

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 15 Apr 2023 at 16:02

TNA said:
I unlocked my 9700 to a pro version via BIOS. I am not sure but I think may have also had to do something to the card too. I remember ******** myself doing it as it was the first time I had got a expensive graphics card.

The 9700 was like £170ish and the Pro version was like an extra £100 as I recall. I was so happy when it worked

Now it's all done for your convenience (as in you have to pay for it)

There were some 9500 non-PRO cards which were softmodded too,so could basically become a 9700 PRO,IIRC. The last two unlockable dGPUs I remember,were the HD6950 2GB unlocking to an HD6970 2GB,and some early reference RX480 4GB cards being 8GB cards.

Major774 · 15 Apr 2023 at 16:07

Only day 2... Palit 4070 is below MSRP now, £578.99.

queamin · 15 Apr 2023 at 16:10

Wasn't the 9700 or the 9500 a pencil mod to unlock it?.

TNA · 15 Apr 2023 at 16:43

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
There were some 9500 non-PRO cards which were softmodded too,so could basically become a 9700 PRO,IIRC. The last two unlockable dGPUs I remember,were the HD6950 2GB unlocking to an HD6970 2GB,and some early reference RX480 4GB cards being 8GB cards.

Fun times. Now they want £1000+ for the unlocked card :cry:

Duderoo · 15 Apr 2023 at 17:17

TNA said:
I unlocked my 9700 to a pro version via BIOS. I am not sure but I think may have also had to do something to the card too. I remember ******** myself doing it as it was the first time I had got a expensive graphics card.

The 9700 was like £170ish and the Pro version was like an extra £100 as I recall. I was so happy when it worked

Now it's all done for your convenience (as in you have to pay for it)

I remember that.... It was my last actual agp that I ran for ages until I had issues with running youtube cause of some Intel protocol which was not present in the amd CPU's at the time. I actually bought the card from oc'ers & won the silicon lottery with the 9700 non pro version soft modded to the pro variant. I remember there was an app that let you mod the ati drivers to the pro version.. it was great while it lasted.