News Nvidia's RTX 4070 Reportedly Launching in April

[chickenballs]

Even here in Europe we could buy the 3080 at msrp around 2 months after its release. While the cheapest 4080 ive seen are over 1600 Euros and 2200 for the 4090.
Clearly nvidia thinks its still 2021 and maybe they are right considering some ppl think those prices are justified because the newer cards are faster. Im surprised that nobody has compared the 4070ti or 4080 to Titan V which was $2999 when it was released

 

[atomicWAR]

That'd be me. I've wanted to buy a 3080 since launch, but could never find one (new) close to MSRP - including right now. I can find tons of 4070 Ti cards that are $100 cheaper than the cheapest 3080 I've seen lately. I could buy a used 3080 on eBay for maybe $650, but I'd rather spend the extra $150-200 for something new with AV1 encoding, better power efficiency, and DLSS3.

It may not be the 50% performance bump at the same price point that most of us hoped for. But since I was planning to buy a 3080 anyway, it's fine with me.


I remember everyone expecting AMD to save us just 2-3 months ago. : P

This is clearly what Nvidia was hoping for, sadly. After the crypto boom, crash and over supply issues Nvidia wanted to desperately prop up their profits while empting their channel of old 3000/2000 series cards at msrp. So I truly get where you're coming from and at the end of the day as AMD really isn't the best competition which makes voting with your dollars a hard thing to do right now, especially if ray-tracing and/or DLSS is of great importance to you. I know first hand as I went with the RTX 4090 coming from a RTX 2080 Ti for three reasons .

Being honest first and foremost, as a disabled person stuck at home a lot in the current conditions I wanted to be spoiled and play at 4K 70-144hz, maxed graphics, ray tracing, no DLSS all native awesomeness which left me with one GPU that can REALLY do that well. Second in my head the RTX 4090 was only upped 100 dollars compared to last gen while having a 60% performance uplift so that's not great their charging more but the uplift in cost isn't a whole SKU like everything else this gen with Nvidia and it has decent bang for your buck if your a 4K gamer considering. Lastly the RTX 4080 was way over priced and trailing by too far in performance for me to take it seriously. Had it or say a RTX 4080 Ti been 15% behind a 4090 for 1200 US OR had it performed as is but only been 799 US, I would have gone with a RTX 4080 (Ti) in either of those scenarios. Honestly as great of a card as the 4090 is, the 1600 dollar price bracket is not where I typically want my GPU purchases to land. I prefer the 799-1200 dollar range as I have typically been an 80/800 class guy since way back with a GTX 7800.