Pocahawtness 2022 年 10 月 10 日 上午 5:07
4070/4080 Just Not Worth the Money?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70fVCoHSl3c

This seems to be a slowly developing opinion, that the 70 and 80 are just way over-priced and not really worth upgrading to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrzgZaonmTc

What are peoples thoughts about this?
最后由 Pocahawtness 编辑于; 2022 年 10 月 13 日 上午 10:48
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Cathulhu 2022 年 10 月 10 日 上午 5:25 
Luckily i'm not in the need for a new videocard right now.
I'd take a look at AMDs offerings revealed next month.

Too bad that Intel ARC is in no way recommendable right now.
最后由 Cathulhu 编辑于; 2022 年 10 月 10 日 上午 5:26
Illusion of Progress 2022 年 10 月 10 日 上午 5:25 
Slowly developing opinion? I don't intend to come off as above anyone else who didn't think the same, but that's been the obvious opinion I've had about this from the start, and I've felt like I've been repeating it too much almost.

It's too apparent that the RTX 40 series structure is setup in a way where the RTX 4080s are both intentionally bad values to make either the older RTX 30 series oversupply or the RTX 4090 more attractive options. The reasons nVidia would have for doing this are because they want the orders of old supply they are committed to producing to be sold while ALSO needing to make new stuff that will sell AND they need to do both while keeping prices where they want them (and after the recent cryptocurrency market state where everything sold and they made off with high profits). How do you achieve all that? You make the new series a low(er) volume series and price it higher, and slot something between them to make either of the options flanking them look better (even though they're also priced high).

I keep asking myself who the RTX 4080s are for and that's the only answer that makes sense, because the RTX 4080s themselves don't seem like they make too much sense for nearly anyone. Have enough for the RTX 4060 Ti (RTX 4080 12 GB)? The older stuff is more attractive, which is already less attractive than AMDs options. Have enough for the RTX 4070 Ti (RTX 4080 16 GB)? Just spend a bit more and get the RTX 4090 (and I REALLY hate using that reasoning and I've stated that many times, but it really does make too much more sense in this case to do that). Especially if you're already on something fast, choosing the RTX 4080 over the RTX 4090 seems such a confusing choice. Either stay with what you have, or less than the RTX 4090 is such a waste of money.

nVidia intentionally made it this way.
Illusion of Progress 2022 年 10 月 10 日 上午 7:11 
引用自 Snakub Plissken
I mean at the prices, 90% of people aren't buying 4070's, 4080's and especially not 4090's.

But that's always been the case. People talk a lot about the highend cards. But they don't sell that many compared to xx50 or xx60 cards.

Sort of how people like to talk about highend sports cars and the like, but most people drive much more modest vehicles.
Yes, the mid-range typically sells in higher volume, but the issue many people are raising with it isn't just "the prices are above what most tend to go for". It's more that even when only only factoring the segment of the market that would buy at those higher prices, the RTX 4080s still don't seem to make much sense.

They're seemingly intentionally poor value products because nVidia instead wants consumers to more go with the older RTX 30 series or the RTX 4090 instead.
引用自 Snakub Plissken
The best value has never been the highend anyway. But people always look for it there. And even if there is some value, ultimately cost often pushes people towards the midrange.
That's often true, but it's not here. The RTX 4090 is the best value in the initial RTX 40 series lineup.
Bad 💀 Motha 2022 年 10 月 10 日 上午 7:51 
4080 12GB is already not all that great for the asking prices.
So yes any RTX 40 below that GPU model is already going to be a complete joke.

For under $1200 you can easily get a 3080 / 3080 Ti or 3090 / 3090 Ti and it would be better overall performance then the lower tier 4080 12GB and have enough performance under your belt to last you until RTX 50 or 60 series.
最后由 Bad 💀 Motha 编辑于; 2022 年 10 月 10 日 上午 7:52
Illusion of Progress 2022 年 10 月 10 日 下午 1:31 
引用自 Snakub Plissken
And as far as the enthusiast segment goes, I mean buying the cut down 4080 is out, so it's 4080 or 4090. And I don't know if the 4090 provides as much value as you're feeling. But we're getting into an eye of the beholder situation I think. How are defining value without lots of concrete benchmarks/reviews?
That is indeed a fair point. More information is needed and I have stated this myself at times. I am willing to adjust my opinion (or outright say I was wrong) if performance comes out and is opposite of what it seems it will be now. But based on specifications and what limited numbers we do have, it honestly does suggest the performance advantage of the RTX 4090 over the RTX 4080 16 GB will be greater than the extra asking price.

I just don't have much hope in the RTX 4080s. The lesser one is too close in price to the upper end of the old series, and the better one seems to be too poor of a value relative to the RTX 4090. At best, I think the RTX 4080s seem like they might not have a WORSE price/performance ratio than the current stuff, but that still sort of makes them mediocre as far as a new generation goes because not being better automatically makes it no improvement when we always get rather substantial ones, especially when the RTX 4090 does seem like it will have a better price/performance ratio (though it will have an asking price too high for most).

The x70 often had this same predicament, but I feel like it "got away with it" more because there's more of a segment of people who are willing to go for more than an x60 tier, but not up to an x80 tier. And even then, that "getting away with it" resulted in it being a niche product, especially with the x80 tier having good value in recent times (GTX 1080/Ti, and RTX 3080).

The same logic doesn't seem to hold as much this high up the price stack. The people who can manage an RTX 4080 16 GB but can't (or don't want to) manage an RTX 4090 seems especially niche, ESPECIALLY if the RTX 4090 does come in with a much better value as the numbers so far suggest. Higher end buyers tend to research more rather than making impulse buys too (unless they are truly rich where a graphics card priced in the thousands would merely fall into "impulse buy amount" for them, but if they are truly rich then they're probably just buying the RTX 4090 instead for that same reason).

I don't know, the RTX 4080 really seems like it's being made less to sell itself, and more to sell the stuff below or above it. But you're right, this is going off of incomplete data and I'm certainly willing to change my stance if I end up wrong. I just don't think it's going to be too different than what the specifications and such suggest. There's a pretty substantial gap (spec-wise, anyway) between the RTX 4080 16 GB and RTX 4090, probably to accommodate the later RTX 4080 Ti. If anything, that might be the one I think will be most worth it of the 4080 series. But for the launch offerings, it's really only the RTX 4090 seems to make much sense to me.
最后由 Illusion of Progress 编辑于; 2022 年 10 月 10 日 下午 1:35
CZI 2022 年 10 月 10 日 下午 6:46 
Money worth is by the finantial decision and depends on the person.
If you want have peak performance, it would worth.

I usually decide by cost performance and optimal performance on the game I want to play.
r.linder 2022 年 10 月 10 日 下午 7:11 
Lovelace will probably be garbage value below the 4090, it was intentional.

Don't trust a damn thing that comes from Gamer Meld, that channel is mostly just clickbait and reporting on whatever BS rumour they can find.
Dr.Shadowds 🐉 2022 年 10 月 10 日 下午 11:08 
IMO for this year, and next is going to be bad for pricing on newer GPUs, and I'm just assuming pricing may get better once things sort themselves out, since we had a shortage, we had scalpers, and crypto miner craze, and one of the biggest crypto switch to from PoW to PoS which why seeing a flood of used for sale which are a risk since there no way to confirm if still have warranty, or wasn't damage outside of warranty.

Anyways GPUs gonna be really pricey for sometime.
Rumpelcrutchskin 2022 年 10 月 11 日 上午 12:39 
Ryzen 7000 series - expensive and completely pointless compared to 5000 series when you use 1440p or higher.
Nvidia 4000 series - expensive as hell and power guzzlers, 4070/4080 shenanigans.

Seriously I lost any incentive to actually upgrade or build in near future.
It's Chase 2022 年 10 月 11 日 上午 7:54 
Productivity Benchmarks look really good for the 4090/4080. I'm going to be picking one up once Raptor Lake releases. Hopefully it'll be a bit easier to snag one this time around.
最后由 It's Chase 编辑于; 2022 年 10 月 11 日 上午 7:56
Electric Cupcake 2022 年 10 月 11 日 上午 8:06 
Nvidia crossed the line one too many times. Radeon is way better now.
ZAP 2022 年 10 月 11 日 上午 8:11 
They shifted the product stack up in price while simultaneously shifting down in actual model. They should have just called everycard 4080 this gen, no matter what die or the amount of disabled units it has.

4090 is 4080
4080 16GB is 4070
4080 12GB is 4060
Zefar 2022 年 10 月 11 日 上午 8:54 
That Youtuber GamerMeld seems to love everything about AMD and have a massive hatred for Nvidia and Intel. Just going by what he names his videos.

Looking at more neutral party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THxkY59_xko

The 4090 does give pretty big improvements in FPS with and without Ray tracing on highest settings. Some odds balls but overall it looks to be a pretty powerful card.
If it double the performance over previous generation and doesn't cost twice as much as the previous card it does seems like it's priced better.
Currently I can find 3090 priced higher on retail stores than buying 4090 from Nvidia. Now some are priced cheaper but if the 4090 gives THAT much performance you might as well go for it.


The wallet is gonna feel that purchase though.
Rumpelcrutchskin 2022 年 10 月 11 日 上午 9:03 
Card price is not only thing that will hit your wallet. 4090 drawing 600W power is worse with current energy prices. You have PC drawing around 800-900W when gaming, it`s basically electric heater.
Zefar 2022 年 10 月 11 日 上午 9:39 
If you gonna buy any 40 series cards try for 4080. If it will be on similar strengths as the 4090 but quite a bit cheaper it's going to be worth more.

Nvidia page for 4080 claims it's 2x times faster than the 3080ti in Raytracing on Cyberpunk2077 and seeing how the 4090 proved its claim they might not be lying about the 4080.

If I still had my GTX 1070 I would have put away money for the 4080 to buy the founders edition. But my RTX 3080 will have to do for me.
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