Jarred, does any of the information released today give you new thoughts or predictions on the cards most people will actually buy, like the 3070 and below?
I've got a full analysis (or at least a deeper one) coming up shortly. Basically, I think 4070 will be delayed as long as possible. However, AMD likely has less of an inventory problem this round and so may not be so keen to wait before pushing out RX 7900 XT, 7800 XT, 7700 XT. I'd love to see AMD take advantage of Nvidia. Still, RDNA 3 likely won't be available in any serious quantity until December at best, and it will probably be the top Navi 31 GPUs at first, with Navi 32 coming in the spring. So if Nvidia can have its way, we won't get RTX 4070 for a few months. We'll see, but obviously prices are higher this round as well — perhaps not as bad as they could have been, but also not great.
If you read between the lines, there are good reasons for EVGA to get out of the GPU business right now. Imagine EVGA staring at a warehouse full of RTX 3070/3080/3090 stuff, knowing the new cards are coming and will inevitably knock down prices on the existing stuff. And if Nvidia is trying to raise the prices it charges to the AIB partners, that's a big issue. Rather than deal with that, plus higher costs of doing business in general, it's just pulling the plug.
$900 for the 4080 12gb, $1200 for the 4080 16gb? Insanity. Nvidia not reading the room with this recession and pricing itself out of most folks systems. I'm even more excited for rdna 3 now
It's going to be interesting to see what happens this round. No crypto mining to save prices and inflate demand, and a glut of current gen GPUs, we could see these new cards follow the pattern set by the 3090 Ti. The MSRP was an obscene $1,999, but now it's selling for under $1,099. Will the RTX 4090 drop a few hundred as well? It might have to if RDNA 3 proves competitive. But that's a pretty big if I think, so we'll wait and see what happens in the next 40 days.