I'd like to see this tested with mid range intel chips (i5 13500-13600 etc.).
I'd like to see the full spectrum honestly.
I mean lets say they do play better with lga1700 cpus period, then perhaps the 12400f would be an excellent budget choice, you could build a quite capable pc for fairly cheap. Perhaps put some used parts in there, idk. Use ddr4 if you are really tight. Buy the cheapest case that comes with fans and a 660 or 760 mobo, wherever you can find a deal. Point is if these two play well together you could make a very cheap capable PC.
Then we could go to something more middleground if the person is on budget now but maybe will have some money later and then can upgrade to any number of GPUs.
Then I just want to see the high end... well kinda for personal reasons, I might buy one if it ever comes down to market price, to 1) help intel in its time of need, and 2) to have a backup GPU and a new toy to play around with.
But yeah thats all if it goes well, in reality, it really could be either extreme or somewhere in the middle. Maybe it plays nice with all of them. Maybe it has a moderate-severe penalty across the board. I mean I know my 14700kf is nowhere near the 9800x3d in gaming, thats no secret. But I want to know I can use all its power if I buy it. Its still data I want to know. I mean intel likely worked on these and tested these primarily on intel chips.
So yeah, I would really like to know.
Anyway I'm sure we'll find out eventually....
IIRC, going back to the older TPU reviews, the 3060 12GB was a $330 MSRP card. So the 4060 8GB being $300 one could argue is actually a downgrade from the previous generation. I'm having trouble even finding the MSRP of the 6GB 3060.
Huh? There was no discrete 6gb 3060 that I'm aware of, The 3060 only had the 12GB version and the 8gb version and the msrp was the same for both. And the 8gb version didn't last long at all. Look up the 3060 anywhere and you'll find mostly the 12gb models.
Downgrade in vram certainly, its generally more powerful UNLESS you are vram limitted then you might find the 3060 doing better. ff16 is a game where this can happen. So many people with 8gb cards come to complain, yet people with 3060s generally say it runs well. Its hard to know exactly what settings they are using and everything but ff16 doesn't flush the buffer so it does do ram swaps so no doubt a lack of vram is going to slow a card down and that game uses an insane amount of vram. I was playing 4k high (not ultra) with dlss on balanced ( btw dlss doesn't affect vram in this game for some reason) and the highest number I saw was 15.5GB.
