Nvidia might discontinue the RTX 4080 in favor of 20GB RTX 4080 Super

[waclark]

Why, though? Anyone who claims Nvidia's Linux drivers are 'trash' clearly does not know what he is talking about.

Didn't say they were trash, but I do think AMD has generally had better support for Linux in the past. If I were running Linux, I'd probably look to AMD first. If Windows, Nvidia.

 

[RaXelliX]

I hate the 4090, not because of it's a bad card but because it's priced poorly.

Agreed.

4070 TI is already faster vs 7900XTX in max settings 4k (Rt+Raster)
7900XT is like 5% faster in Raster vs 4070 TI.

Not really. It's 11% slower than 7900XT and 30% slower than 7900XTX. In raster, on average. In heavy RT it's faster.

 

[waclark]

Agreed.

Not really. It's 11% slower than 7900XT and 30% slower than 7900XTX. In raster, on average. In heavy RT it's faster.

Not according to this Techspot article, at 1440 they are basically neck and neck, depending on the game. At 4K, the XT has a 3% advantage, or basically neck and neck again.

With RT, this is what they said.

The Radeon 7900 XT no longer dominates the RTX 4070 Ti and in fact at 1440p is now 9% slower with just 59 fps on average. That's a massive 54% reduction in FPS for the 7900 XT when enabling ray tracing and a 36% decrease for the 4070 Ti.

 

[RaXelliX]

Not according to this Techspot article, at 1440 they are basically neck and neck, depending on the game. At 4K, the XT has a 3% advantage, or basically neck and neck again.

With RT, this is what they said.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Specs

NVIDIA AD104, 2610 MHz, 7680 Cores, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, 12288 MB GDDR6X, 1313 MHz, 192 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Based on TPU review data: "Performance Summary" at 1920x1080, 4K for 2080 Ti and faster.

Taking the latest 4070 Ti review from TPU and looking a 4K performance summary confirms this. 8% and 28% slower respectively:

 

[waclark]

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Specs

NVIDIA AD104, 2610 MHz, 7680 Cores, 240 TMUs, 80 ROPs, 12288 MB GDDR6X, 1313 MHz, 192 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Taking the latest 4070 Ti review from TPU and looking a 4K performance summary confirms this. 8% and 28% slower respectively:

From what I could gather, those results are over a 25-game test. The TechSpot review is over 50 games, and as you can see from the charts in that article, it depends on the games. Pick the right games and the 7900 wins, pick different games or add RT and the 4070Ti wins. And, honestly, the 4070Ti isn't a 4K card so really 1080 or 1440 is the better measure.

 

[OortCloud]

I remember when nVidia launched the 3080 for $699/£649. A great card at an 'just-about-affordable' price and a huge performance jump over previous gen.

Then crypto and AI came along, nVidia (and AMD) started gouging consumers as they had such broadened markets for their products. The 4080 launched at almost twice the price and was nothing like the uplift from previous gen and nVidia has seemed permanently mired in mediocrity ever since (really only the 4090 is remarkable in any way from the 40 series cards). The 4080 and 4070 pricing is insane and the 4060 or below are a waste of sand.

 

[GettCouped]

Ahh nice a way for Nvidia to drive up the price AGAIN for a product that should have been released with >16 GB of VRAM to begin with. Gosh darnit it sucks having NVidia with such dominant control.

And now loser AMD is following in NVidia's steps by having less performance and smaller silicon on similar models across generations. Such scumbaggery.