NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB graphics card finds itself embattled against the recently launched AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT, and board partners from NVIDIA's ecosystem plan to do something about it, reports Moore's Law is Dead. A GIGABYTE custom-design RTX 4070 Gaming OC graphics card saw a $549 listing on the web, deviating from the $599 MSRP for the SKU, which hints at what the new pricing for the RTX 4070 could generally look like. At $549, the RTX 4070 would still sell for a $50 premium over the RX 7800 XT, probably banking on better energy efficiency and features such as DLSS 3. NVIDIA partners could take turns to price their baseline custom-design RTX 4070 product below the MSRP on popular online retail platforms, and we don't predict an official price-cut that applies across all brands, forcing them all to lower their prices to $549. We could also see NVIDIA partners review pricing for the RTX 4060 Ti, which faces stiff competition from the RX 7700 XT.
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The RTX 4080 was never considered a very popular card due to its high cost, it still has more than twice the market share of the 7900 XTX according to Steam. The 4090 outsold both combined. This trend holds throughout the entire stack, with even previous-generation Nvidia GPUs heavily outperforming AMD's most popular models, for example, 3080 Ti at 0.84% of the market share somehow exceeds the amount of Steam Decks "AMD Van Gogh" floating around at 0.81%... and even the ancient 1070 with 1.48% of market share still largely exceeds even the RX 580 which is AMD's all-time best seller and most successful GPU ever (currently at 0.99%).
Steam stats are still the most accurate metrics we have regarding actual GPUs, other than maybe the GPU-Z metrics.
As far as feeling threatened, its hard to care about reality when theyre completely out of touch concerning the consumer (gamer oriented) market, thats obviously the least of their concerns. Its clear AIBs realize how poor value the 4070 was/is vs the 7800XT. In the grand scheme the only person that stands to win are Nvidia/AMD in this market anyways.
No ones interested in your massive Nvidia bias anyways.
The delusion on some amd fans...bonkers.
Demand for graphics cards significantly increased during the pandemic as some people spent more time at home playing games, whereas others tried to mine Ethereum to get some cash. But it looks like now that the world has re-opened and Ethereum mining on GPUs is dead, demand for desktop discrete GPUs has dropped dramatically. In fact, shipments of discrete graphics cards hit a ~20-year low in Q3 2022, according to data from Jon Peddie Research.
www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low
If you keep up with the chatter on PC building forums, you’ve probably sensed the current apathy toward discrete graphics cards. Now there’s data to back up that gut impression. A new report from analysts at Jon Peddie Research shows a nearly 13 percent drop in shipments in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter—and almost a 40 percent drop year to year.
www.pcworld.com/article/1947496/oof-desktop-gpu-sales-are-down-almost-40-percent-year-to-year.html
RTX 4070 might have got away with it if it had been like 25% (max) more in cost per frame over the RX 7800 XT, but not with 70-80%, LOL.
Here is a video about the price cuts and how the NVIDIA cards stands against AMD.
That means, it's $100 (£90) off the price I paid, not 70 (£60), which makes the 7800 XT essentially a $400 GPU. Shame the promo only lasts until 30 Sep.
Just another AMD sponsored title, where DLSS is not present. AMD hates when FSR is being directly compared with DLSS. Luckily for RTX users, 9 out of 10 new games have DLSS/DLAA and most of the time, the remaining games gets a mod on day one, like Starfield had. Because no RTX users wants to settle with inferior FSR when they can do DLSS/DLAA.
Besides, AMD GPUs don't even render the sun in Starfield -> www.pcgamer.com/in-starfield-the-sun-literally-doesnt-shine-on-amd-gpu-users/
Talk about lowering immersion. Planets look so boring and lifeless without the sun present.
Starfield is overrated and overhyped anyway. Glad I got it for free.
And guess what, the only games that had problems with 8GB cards, has been AMD sponsored titles -> www.amd.com/en/gaming/featured-games.html
Mostly rushed console ports like TLOU Remake.
Coincidence? Probably not :laugh: However patches fixed the issues anyway.
4060 Ti 8GB performs just like the 16GB model in minimum fps in 4K -> www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-16-gb/35.html
The review even states that there's no performance uplift from going with the 16GB version at the end.
- No significant performance gains from 16 GB VRAM
Meanwhile most AMD users think they need 16GB for 1080p :roll:So yeah, keep thinking VRAM will save you. It won't. GPU will be the limiting factor long before VRAM becomes a problem 99% of the time.
AMD and AMD users talk about VRAM because they have nothing else to talk about. Sad but true.
In 5 years when 20GB VRAM might be needed to max out demanding games, 7900XT will be trashbinworthy :laugh:
Alot of VRAM never futureproofed any GPU. GPU is the limiting factor 99% of the time.
But I digress.. We seem to be getting a bit off topic...