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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition Pictured in the Flesh

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Fair enough. :) I guess you think about your purchases more than I do (which is good). I always just buy the highest tier that I can afford, and think about the resale value only when it's time to upgrade. My 1660 Ti was my first graphics card that I sold because of some fluctuations in the used market, and not because I needed an upgrade.

Edit: I don't suppose there's gonna be another big jump from 7/8 nm to something else in the near future, so I'm hoping Ampere will hold its value for a while (like Turing didn't).

Too early to tell, in my opinion. We need numbers. Temperature under AIB coolers, boost behavior and spread within the same SKU, end performance, etc. So far Ampere certainly doesn't seem perfect at all, its nothing like the super refined Pascal in that sense. But not bad either don't get me wrong. Could well be another Fermi. That sold well, too, especially in the midrange, and there is reason to believe you really don't need to go much higher (the vast majority).

We really don't know yet how well Samsung's 8nm really does, especially not compared to TSMC's 7nm, but there is very little reason to believe its better.
 
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