they compared to poor old 2060 at 4k, what a world.From the Nvidia site. The RTX 4080 16GB looks to be a beast.
I'm thinking the RTX 4080 12GB might be decent buy at $899.99 MSRP for 1440P.
When you say pinch of negativity do you mean objective criticism? Did you miss the part where the price of the 4090 was criticized?
If you look at the amount of work done for the amount of power used modern hardware is a lot more efficient than 10 years ago.
But we are still using a lot more power. When AMD's Vega series came out everyone was all up in arms having a fit because it required a 500w psu minimum. Just using this as an example but that was in 2017...only 5 years ago. We are up to 850w and people are justifying it. Now the vega series wasn't exactly a stellar series but the power consumption was not acceptable.
I guess in a way, those options are there if you don't mind a little reduction in performance. Both the RTX 30 and RTX 40 can run very efficiently with less power. They are both pushed beyond their efficiency curves to optimize performance at a cost to power consumption. If efficiency is a bigger concern a little tweaking and you can get much better power consumption and thermals and still retain 85-95% of your overall performance. This obviously works because these chips can run in laptops using 1/3 the power and usually maintaining something like 65-70% of their desktop counterpart's performance. So, it is not like you absolutely have to have a 1000 watt PSU to run an RTX 4090, you could definitely run it on a 750 watt and perhaps even a 650 watt PSU if you drop the power usage and sacrifice the performance. Probably not recommended, but there is no reason it cannot be done.
If that is the case, I buy another card that is less hefty in size and costly, and problem resolved without fiddling with the performance and all that. RDNA3 might be the solution then, maybe. We need to see what AMD brings to the table.
Well yes, a smaller die and less cores can run at a faster clock speed and lower power. So, the 250 watt 3070 is going to run a higher clock than a 3080 with power reduced to 250 watts. That being said, the 3080 would still significantly outperform the 3070 based on what I have seen with the 3080s efficiency, but the delta would be reduced and the price to performance would make the 3070 the clear winner.
Just saw that, one wonders what the new name will be? And, will there be any pricing adjustment? I can't imagine a 4070 class card at $900. Way too high.
I'm going with 4070 Ti or 4070 Super with possibly a price drop.
That's what I'm hoping. Don't care about the name but a $100-150 price drop would be ideal.
I'm sure that you've seen this https://www.techspot.com/news/96327-nvidia-trials-4090-priority-access-program-unlaunches-12gb.html
Yeah, I saw those. Still, I don't think this is going to be a $500 GPU. It's performing somewhere between a 3080 and 3090Ti. I'm hoping it comes in below $800, $750 would be a good start.
eh, really; you can see it in the Andantech review; which was more comprehensive and included 4k.
