expired Posted by privater • Dec 17, 2023
Dec 17, 2023 7:12 AM
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expired Posted by privater • Dec 17, 2023
Dec 17, 2023 7:12 AM
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Good while lasted
The CES event is really making the current market change ironically
Even at this price the 4080 is a silly choice.
I've owned ~40 different gpus in the past decade. I've never noticed a difference in drivers between AMD and Nvidia. COD and Halo Infinite were glitched on Nvidia for months. Switched to AMD and it was fixed. Then there were glitches on AMD with something I was doing, switched back to Nvidia and it was fixed. I'm currently back on AMD.
TLDR, both manufacturers have issues with drivers at any given time. I have 18 years of experience and have owned more cards than most people will own in a lifetime and I don't notice a difference. Buy the most FPS per dollar and disregard brand loyalty.
If you're saving $200 then sure go for the 7900XTX but if it's around the same price go 4080 all day.
Games with Unreal 5 have just started coming out, and it generally has heavier requirements than Unreal 4. I'm sure developers will push limits on VRAM requirement as years go by. My guess is that the 20GB VRAM on 7900XT will age much better than the 12GB on 4070Ti. At least for me, no point getting the 4070Ti even though it's cheaper than 7900XT with this sale.
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I probably still wont consider the SUPER cards, as I'm sure they would be priced high. Knowing NVidia they'll charge a $100 surcharge for just a bit more VRAM combined with essentially the same chips as the current crop. My guess is there will be meager performance benefits (if any), other than better future proofing by way of more VRAM. Folks are expecting $1100 for the 4080 SUPER and $900 for the 4070 Ti SUPER. I would wager both will settle at about $100 less eventually (i.e. $1000 and $800 respectively). But that's still too high!
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