Even though I have no plans on buying a 4070Ti I've been watching a few reviews. Seems like the 192bit memory bus width and resulting poor memory bandwidth is really bottlenecking this card at 4k, so it's performant enough at 1440p but pretty useless at 4k. I'm starting to think this is deliberate on behalf of Nvidia, if you want to game at 4K you really need to spend even more and get a 4080 or 4090, even though this 4070ti has enough processing power to be OK at 4k they've intentionally hindered 4k performance with a small memory bus width. For comparison, this 4070Ti has similar memory bandwidth to a 1080Ti, it has less bandwidth then a 3070Ti, and even has less than the GDDR6
X version of the 3060Ti. That's crazy, I'm surprised some of the more critical reviews (e.g. gamers nexus) aren't pointing out this particular comparison.
The "OC" tax is back. Non OC make the £799/$799 cut and will be gone then £49 for the same card for 30MHz quoted boost extra. (2610MHz vs 2640MHz)
So 6.25% more money for 1% boost clock, bargain. This is now standard practice.
Given that ALL of Nvidia's cards allow you to freely adjust the core clock and memory clock easily using free software, paying more for a higher clocked card is literally wasting money. Put your money in a card with a better cooler, then you'll have more headroom to increase the clocks manually. Buying a card based off the factory clock speeds set by the AIB is foolishness.
It's not bad on the government's coffers too at approx. £200 tax for cards priced at £999.99.
That's why it's best to buy used. You don't have the financial burden of the depreciation, and you don't pay VAT on private sales. Same with cars, anyone who buys a brand new car is wasting money or just plain rich and doesn't care about the money. GPUs depreciate much more than other PC components, which is why I've only ever bought a new GPU once in my entire life* (compared to dozens bought used) and will hopefully never do so again.
*I was impatient for 4k120/HDMI2.1 capability and had the spare cash for a 3080Ti. Kind of regret it but such is life, live and learn.
If you think the Execs at AMD and Nvidia aren't having daily meetings and pulling their hair out at this point you are quite frankly deluded. I've been buying graphics cards for 25 years, what's happening at this moment is unprecedented.
If you meant "laughing all the way to the bank" then I agree.
I sold my 3090 for 500 pounds, it's faster than the 4070ti at nearly half price. People shouldn't be buying new 4070ti's they should go buy second hand 3080/3080ti/3090 instead and pocket the money
In normal times I would agree. But when you consider the current crazy electricity prices in the UK, and the increase in performance per watt (4070Ti has almost double the perf/watt of the 3090Ti) it might be cheaper in the long run (6-12+ months) to buy a 4070Ti at £900 compared to a 3090Ti at £500. Depends how much gaming you do, I'd estimate that I would break even at around 10-12 months of gaming, so if I'm keeping the 4070Ti for more than a year it might be cheaper in the long run.
Then again there's depreciation like I mentioned above, a 3090Ti bought used today is not going to lose much more value in the next 12 months, maybe 25% loss. On the other hand a 4070Ti bought today is going to lose more than half its value in 12 months.
See how it's selling in a month when the fomo crowd have had their fill.
See how it's selling on ebay after the 5xxx series is released and the FOMO crowd are all trying to sell their 4xxx to lessen the burden of their 5xxx purchase. This is actually my current plan, buy a used 4090 for around £1k or less after the 5xxx is released.
The real play is to take a few years out of gaming and spend all that time investing in yourself and becoming a top revenue earner. Then you will have no issues dropping £5k on a 6090 in a few years time.
If it was that easy, everybody would do it. If hard work led to wealth, farmers/nurses would be the richest people on the planet. The world doesn't work like that.
