NVIDIA... why do you hate gamers so much? RTX 4070Ti Review

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[@zangetsu8639]

I never thought that a 70s model would cost a thousand euros or more. For the price alone, I see no reason to buy one.

[@RoyalLemonade]

I remember when mid range used to be 200-300 € now its 600+......

[@firedragonlul2115]

@@RoyalLemonade yup. Still remember when I got used gtx 970 for ~290€ (price inflation adjusted) and remaining warranty.

[@dralord1307]

Well technically its a 60 card. Cut down to only 46% "normal for the base 60" orignally called it an 80 card and wanted to charge 1k usd for it

[@firedragonlul2115]

@@dralord1307 Well true, but everyone gets the point. I like how prices sky rocketed in the time where people started struggling financially. Strange timing. Or nvidia still lives in cryptodream and covid dream where even 1030 could be sold for 100€

[@dredgenrur3190]

I really miss the old days, when I got my gtx 980 for 550€. Don't get me wrong, I love my 3080ti even though it cost me almost 1700€, but man these prices are horrible.

[@spiv]

I remember the gtx 970 being $300. At this rate, the 4050 is going to be the same cost as a whole computer.

[@razorsz195]

My first GPU cost £20 in 2004...brand new, 50 series card equivalent in its product stack..now they want the price of a whole PC for one GPU... >_>

[@boffyrox2]

Back in the day I won my GTX 970 at a LAN, and was able to sell it for $400 brand new. As of the last 12 months, I saw I could still sell it for the same price. In fact, the average I saw was $600. That's bonkers! The card is almost a decade old!

[@quantum5661]

my first pc was a gift from my folks, had an msi 100me gtx970. big tech really went full retard since then.

[@I.C.Weiner]

@@boffyrox2 I'm still rocking my gtx970. Great card.

[@wombat5252]

Yeah I remember when you could spend $1000-1200 for a good upper mid tier computer. (DIY not prebuilt).

[@Dirt1061]

Man my 1070 at $400 was super expensive. Pricing nowadays is insane.

[@GeneralS1mba]

Well that would've been around 500 nowadays, and adjusted to manufacturing costs they would probably have similar margins it's just that as time goes on its going to get harder for us to get stuff cheap, their share holders want constant good returns

[@Zamibia]

bought my 980ti's for 750 and 300 bucks a piece in 2015 and 18, thought the first fullprice one was crazy and i had buyers remorse for weeks.

[@spaceidiot200]

bought a base 1080 on release at 600, same price as the 4070. Given that its been 9, almost 10 years, I could see this price increase in the 70 series as fair. but the increase of more than 100 dollars for the 70ti / 80 series is way too much. No way would I consider a 4080 at double the price of a 4070

[@iragogeta]

I'm like you. Seeing the skyrocketed prices of graphics card, I will just buy my new PC keeping my 1070. Nvidia can go f itself.

[@Anoalekontrieger]

@@spaceidiot200 Luckily prices have come down quite alot. I bought a 3080 for €400 since the 40 series is still too expensive. Traded my 1080ti and got 200 in hand so not too bad

[@QuincyStJames]

All I can say is that I agree 100% - the quick grab for cash by tech industry right now to "recoup losses" is astounding to me. It's clear that Sales Engineers and CEOs of the tech industry and retailers are no longer the best and brightest out there, rather they are all scrambling to "grow the company" as fast as possible because that is all that wallstreet requires to validate them as successful companies, even though this "Growth" comes at the cost of the quality of product and consumer acceptance. SMH

[@raven4k998]

that's why they kicked evga out cause they knew evga would go public if they kept them in the loop

[@buggerlugz6753]

Nvidia's view of growth will come at the cost of "customers".

[@buggerlugz6753]

@@raven4k998 - EVGA did the right thing leaving the GPU market when they did.

[@raven4k998]

@@buggerlugz6753 yeah they did as Nvidia is making gpu that self destruct now🤣🤣

[@QuincyStJames]

@Jack Sparrow either you are joking, or that is the most bias solution I've heard yet

[@TheRogueWolf]

Jay's saying the same thing I've been: Companies saw those pandemic scalper prices people were paying, and went absolutely insane with greed. In my ideal world, every last one of these cards would be sitting on shelves gathering dust and costing these companies a fortune until they offered steep price cuts out of desperation.

[@CMDRSweeper]

There is this, but there is also the fact that the crypto market isn't there to carry their expected margins anymore. So Nvidia in this case expects gamers to now carry on spending and covering the same price and demand as the miner's did, the miners that made money on these GPUs back in the day.

[@RundOnline]

That's the thing. The consumer can vote with their wallet. Don't pay those insane prices. But we know people will pay those prices...

[@YanniDesigns]

I can see Jensen going like "omg people just don't know what's good anymore. THE COST OF PRODUCTION HAS SKYROCKETED!!! People are not realizing that!! Sad... PC Gaming must be dead, people just don't value the quality of RTX, DLSS and our ENORMOUS investments anymore! Time to focus on Datacenter and AI more..." rather than "Oh well, maybe there is a problem with the price?"

[@Skott62]

@andyg.2013 Buy a 4xxx series once the 5xxx series releases and you will probably get a good deal.

[@flimermithrandir]

Agreed. And they will sit on Shelfes. Dont worry. Sure, at first, they will sell. Like the 4080 now is as well since AMD had 3 different Hickups... But we too know that Nvidia wasnt making a Ton of 4080 to Beginn with and the same is with this Card now... Seems a little bit less even. So yes... while it seems they are still selling... they arent as good as many want you to think. I will start buying those at 400 and 700 Dollars. Because thats what they are worth it... (Compare the Die Size and you will see what i mean)

[@RashaKahn]

I remember buying a 1080 for $500, this is nuts...

[@No-cg9kj]

I paid $799 for a 1080 Ti that came with a fucking AIO liquid cooler. This is ridiculous.

[@Swiss4.2]

@@No-cg9kj I bought a 1080Ti Strix for 750€ a few years ago, now a 70 series card cost that much, and the 80 series is 1200€+. Ridiculous.

[@darschpugs4690]

welcome to inflation and corporate greed.

[@tuanpham-ph6fv]

@@darschpugs4690 dude, stop pinning it to inflation, inflation only increased cost by 15% at most the past 3 years. However, cards have more than doubled in price. This is solely due to Nvidia and AMD's greed

[@sliime2369]

@@tuanpham-ph6fv to be fair he said both lol so idk why you are mad?

[@thomastygret7378]

Interesting coming back to this video 5 months later. 3090 Ti is still ~$1,600 on Amazon while 4070 Ti can be easily had for $799 (including several model options). Considering the massive improvement to efficiency, that makes the 4070 Ti seem like a great option. It is still expensive, which everything is, but in the actual landscape of GPU pricing it provides solid value. Just wish it had 16GB of VRAM rather than 12.

[@rymns]

Ive bought it for USD600 today

[@Enakaji]

I bought a 4070ti a few weeks ago when a local hardware shop had a limited sale of Gainward Phoenix 4070ti cards for 750€ and it's a good card. Was it kinda expensive? Yes. Was it worth it compared to the RX 6750 XT I had before? Hell yes, its basically twice as fast as my "old" RX 6750 XT.

[@ieradossantos]

I got it 3 days ago and it feels like I'm watching reviews from another world

[@Varkoroth]

I got my Palit 4070Ti GameRock for 1,000USD when it came out. Keep in mind prices in Bulgaria are always higher than the US or most countries for that matter. At the time of purchasing, second hand 3090 TIs were still going for 1,500USD+, if you could even find one. 3080 Tis were going for around 1,500USD brand new, and around 900-1,100USD second hand. Thus why I chose to go with the 4070Ti, as it's brand new and has 2 years of warranty. I do not regret my purchase. Even with that price, my whole system turned out to around 1700 USD. Performance is great at 1440P, at 4K you do need DLSS in some titles if you want higher FPS, but Frame Gen does help a lot with that. At 1080P, it gets bottlenecked by my CPU (R5 5600X). It's actually a pretty decent GPU in my opinion, though, the price could've been better. And yes, it could've benefitted from 16 gigs of VRAM instead of 12, as some games fill that up. *cough* TLOU Part 1...

[@Tzhz]

I bought one today for £779.50 ($1000) upgrading from 2070 super

[@wildesage4172]

IMO this tier creeping comes primarily from the 4K gaming push. Nvidia knew they didn't have the juice to push 4K, but they told us they did as far back as the 1080 ti, using cherry-picked benchmarks and tricks (which has now gone as far as FRAME INTERPOLATION) to portray their products as more capable than they actually are. But because they couldn't push out 80-series cards capable of achieving the performance gamers wanted and expected (based on Nvidias own lies), they slowly started pushing the tiers up. Now they're just building cards with 90-series performance, giving them 90-series prices, but calling them 80-series (and likewise all the way down the product stack), and it's because of the bullshit 4K push. They want you to feel like your "mid-range" 4070 ti is super-capable. It's not. If it was actually built to a mid-range price point under the hood, today's 4070 ti would perform the same as a 3070 ti (because the 3070 ti is more like a 3080 ti, price-wise). Oops, it's almost like they squeezed in an entire generation of false progress by giving higher-end cards the names of lower-end cards! They jumped the gun on 4K, misled consumers about their capability for generations, and now they have to keep covering up their lies with more lies, because if they release a new generation of cards and are honest about the performance from the start it's gonna brutalize their stock price and PR. The stagnation would catch up with them, and they would lose an entire generation worth of progress, undoing the years-long pricing games they employed. They can never let that happen, so more lies and more tricks is all we're gonna get. Worth mentioning: of course the tensor cores contributed to the cost increase and overpricing in each tier. We're all forced to pay for those things, whether we use them or not. But that little bit of extra hardware isn't responsible for pushing these cards 2 tiers up in price.

[@charlesbukowski9836]

What would you do if you had a 2080 TI at 1440? I dont play games at FULL max... I am happy with upper medium settings with lower shadows etc.... should I wait to buy anything?

[@spaceidiot200]

@@charlesbukowski9836 I'd personally wait, only bought a 4070 recently to replace a base 1080 9 year old card. You already have raytracing and it can keep up with high settings on most game

[@TheKarolans]

My 1080Ti still runs all games in 4K, of course not on ultra but it works fine. I am now looking to replace, going back to AMD this time though.

[@ragnew9669]

The 4060 will perform as 3070, and priced as 3070. Great progress 👏

[@emperorjj1]

@The Boeing Kid paying 550 dollars to only gain efficiency seems like a poor purchase. the only appeal is for people on super old hardware. and even then its not really appealing. if i could play cyberpunk (albeit not great) on a now decade old 290x. some of these legacy gamers may not want to feed the obvious money grab

[@cocodanuts3497]

@The Boeing Kid bro that’s no point to make, a lower electric bill is not directly in Nvidia’s power. It would still depend on your local rates

[@darkglobe406]

@@somad6997 yeah and then there is also an option to get yourself used rtx 3070 still in warranty for 350 . and if you only play at 1080p even better you can grab rtx 2070 / 2060 super for 200-250 bucks . no need to pay 500-800 for new cards .

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

There are some 2000 series cards benching better than the bottom 3000 series ones do. What's the point in 'upgrading'? My current rig is about 4bn years old and I'm about to build a brand new one with a 6700XT - even that is nearly £500 and is a joke compared to the 4090 and suchlike. Friend of mine built a budget COVID rig in 2021 and got a 1080Ti because that's all that she could get in budget. The GPU market is very broken.

[@Huskmini]

@@cocodanuts3497 whilst i do agree with you, lower power consumption = lower electricity bill, it doesnt matter what local rates are, if a gpu has less power consumption you save money. Again i completely agree that its not the point to make, and frankly buying a card just so it performs the same as an older gen card but has better efficiency at more of a cost just isnt good

[@konstantinkapustin3346]

We as gamers need to come together and vote with our wallets. Don't buy the cards, don't buy anything especially from the scalpers. Let the greedy corporations feel a hole in their pocket so that next time it might give them pause to consider treating their customers with respect and remind them who got them where they are now.

[@SaintTrinasTorch]

Most go to crypto farms or scalpers anyways, and what little inventory not bought by gamers would just give the aforementioned even more product. :(

[@solmariuce5303]

@@SaintTrinasTorch scalpers will stop buying en masse when profit margins become slim. So keep voting with your wallet.

[@sagnikmaulik]

@@SaintTrinasTorch scalpers are not gonna buy anyway when they see the product has less demand. If we decide to stop buying it will send a message. Both to scalpers and nvidia. Crypto has crashed a lot too.

[@JNJNRobin1337]

but we dont have any midrange graphics cards, to my knowledge

[@foidmeister]

@@JNJNRobin1337 gtx 1650 is mid range

[@stevejr777]

I was looking for a lower end graphics card like the RTX 3060 - RTX 3060Ti but the price is way to much. I found a RX 6700 XT delivered for $380 I'm coming from a GTX 1660 super. Really happy with my decision saved money and received something faster then the RTX 3060.

[@LazyGuyCoyote]

Subscribed due to the fact you stick by your opinions, I appreciate the honesty here. I dislike how things are going in the industry as well, right there with you. Pricing has gotten bad and it’s only going to get worse.

[@ziff_1]

This is what happens when there's little to no real competition.

[@supergrendel]

In this era of $1400+ gpus I just say a few nice words every day to my 1080ti for hanging strong for almost 6 years now.

[@FredoDaFigga]

same lol

[@kh2766]

Right there with ya

[@GameModTech]

got a non ti version, still runs everything I need. Last time I was so happy with a gpu was a Geforce 3 Ti 200

[@Ch1l1C0nCarnag3]

Me and my good ol' GTX 960 chugging along

[@light-qe3gv]

go get a job. 4080 owner here.

[@chrisharford2949]

Nvidia lied? I'm shocked, shocked I say!

[@The_NJG]

Perhaps appalled if you will.

[@joejoemars]

Bamboozled, if I may.

[@haifito]

Get your bloody like 👍🏻

[@JgHaverty]

Its the truth... from a certain point of view....

[@ceroandone]

Ngreedia= scammer

[@blakef553]

Thanks so much for your analysis. Non super tech people who just want the best performance for the price are easily confused by the 3060ti/3080/4070ti/4080 branding. We already have enough task to make sure the rest of our build makes sense as a total unit. Thanks again!

[@Kushenable]

u have to look at least at 30 more tests... because this test says 3090ti cyberpunk no RT but only 51fps... i got a 3080ti and i got with RT 35fps... 3090ti cant be worst than 3080 ti... these tests are idk... but wrong at least

[@nonamepoo2892]

@@Kushenable other things can effect it, ram speed, amount of ram, how many sticks, ssd or m.2 or hdd. what is your cpu, how many cores, what the speed, is it overclocked? what are you temps overall in your pc. All of these are factors

[@k1llrMunky]

Thank you for some very entertaining and informative commentary there. Yeah everytime I start pricing a gaming machine for my son - I stop shopping like 2 or 3 components down the list... the selection process gets daunting and even the entry level systems have a price point thats past what a new console costs here in South Africa... and given my first edition Xbox One is still going strong (he mostly plays Fortnite and Minecraft) and is not losing any sleep over the Frame Rates or even missing 4K - I reckon I will stay in my lane for now. 😆

[@WBF_III]

You're spot on about the relationship between scalpers and profit. Nvidia doesn't care as long as they keep the pandemic era margin. That's reflected in every decision they made with the 40 series. It's sickening. I'll stick with my 2060S until it dies. Next time I'll be looking at a different OEM.

[@derpderpin1568]

That's every single company in the United States. Not a single one has your or any customers best interest. AMD does exactly 100% the same thing so good luck finding a good GPU provided by a company that doesn't do these things, it doesn't exist.

[@markel3353]

@@derpderpin1568 since the advent of apple every company is practicing anti consumer practices.

[@whyis45stillalive]

@@markel3353 Don't forget their anti-competitive practices.

[@markel3353]

@@whyis45stillalive why would I 😂

[@ThreaT650]

Worst case scenario you can just pick up a used card. Screw these guys. Instead of two sales, the used market caps that at one.

[@galenbotha582]

Now that Im seeing this, despite seeing the performance in the 4090, makes me understand why EVGA left as a board partner. Theres no way the other manufacturers are making money off these cards.

[@empireOfLove2]

And NVidia would be totally fine with every single one of their AIB's going under. When Nvidia sells FE cards they get 100% of the profit margin. That looks delicious.

[@shatteredsentient5321]

@Diomedes I just got a 3080. I don't need that much power since I don't really play powerful games.

[@drunkpenguin6029]

I really appreciate the honesty JayZ, keep it up! I think it's really important to not just stay silent about this stuff.

[@Dem0nell72]

i m so glad i still sticking to console gaming and hold back my new rig build till today.

[@Codd23]

last minute of this video expressed EXACTLY how the gamers feel to the stuff we love. It makes us happy to play with these stuff, but It indeed is sad to see how the industry has become.

[@auntiepha8343]

I am not the biggest Jay fan but I agree. I admit his little speech at the end about hardware hit home.

[@mikeslemonade]

It’s the democrats, uniparty republicans, and the neo-leftist west to blame for causing the inflation to begin with. I can’t blame nvidia for adjusting the prices so they can get the same margins.

[@spleenpedersen5039]

Gamers keep buying these cards ... Just look on Reddit ... You've people complaning on the r/Nvidia about prices, and 2 days later, the sames posting their new Lovelace card ... What the f*** ....

[@JoeyJoJoJr0]

It's the gamers that are to blame, they're the one's paying over-inflated prices hand over fist. I guess they want their console ports to run at 200+ fps?

[@spankbuda5760]

Firstly, the majority of people are not buying these cards due to the economy in a global recession/depression. These cards are inflated to prevent "regular" people from spending and leaving it to those that can afford it. The government wants people to be broke, jobless, and homeless in order to stop inflation. When they initially stated that we were going to be in bad times until 2025/2026 this was the truth.

[@viowithcrailtap]

The fact you've mentioned the cost of living and compared it to the prices of these cards was great. These companies just throw cards out with a random number price on it and expect people to go for it. I'm in the market for a full system upgrade and I'm currently so tired of reading reviews and conflicting opinions as to what to buy I almost cannot be bothered. GPUs are the biggest pain the ass currently. Everything else was fairly straightforward.

[@thefirstbushman]

Older cards are the way to go depending on what resolution you’re hoping to run I picked up my rx580 nitro for 90 before covid struck, there’s definitely bargains if you look

[@OriginalCatfish42]

Thing is, plenty of people just go for it

[@viowithcrailtap]

@Diomedes I was looking at a 3070. I'm going to get an i5 13600K CPU and they seem like a good pairing.

[@trajectoryunown]

@@thefirstbushman This guy hit the nail on the head. Unless you have a serious need for bleeding edge performance from a GPU, you'll do very well with something from even up to 3 generation back. And those can get very affordable.

[@Merijnzzz4287]

@@viowithcrailtap i've recently bought that combo, easily 100/150+ fps on very high settings (1440p). Very happy with them

[@joestock732]

11 months later and my decision to get a 4070ti is still the best decision I have ever made. It is a brilliant card for my 1440p gaming.

[@jiolopmiokop7820]

What did you upgrade from?

[@mvcastelluccio]

Pricing will stay that way on the 30 series because the retailers have already paid that “higher” price when they acquired them. New batches of 40 series came in at a lower price to the retailer because of what you stated in the video about market crashes. I give it another 6 months and they’ll drop.

[@AryanSingh-be1gi]

And that's exactly what happened 5 months later

[@BAMBAMRSA]

Dude thank you for caring so much about us small guys, like you could easily get lost in always having such prime equipment but you've remained so in tune with the struggles an average PC gamer faces when buying hardware. Such a legend brother much love from South Africa!

[@subjectivereviews]

True

[@ProfileUserNumber]

I’d love for you to elaborate on this bullshit ass kissing karma farm of an opinion.

[@the_hamrat]

Well said man! Thanks from another brother in South Africa

[@BAMBAMRSA]

@@ProfileUserNumber Glady, you can see in his vid that he's visibly and literally pissed off by what the GPU manufacturers are subjecting their buyers to. And as an individual who is able to buy and receives top tier equipment he hasn't lost touch with how the average or entry PC enthusiast struggles to validate the expense of buying this hardware, especially when it's ridiculously overpriced. He's come from the same background as a young enthusiast budgeting to buy the best they can afford and he has essentially not lost his roots which is commendable. Does that explain it for you?

[@BraveClam]

Very true

[@ChaitanyaShukla2503]

Its funny how nGreedia went from announcing "4080 12GB" to cancelling launch last minute to now blatantly lying about performance claims of "4070 Ti"(its barely 4060Ti/Super(~42% core of 90 class GPU) and then selling said GPU at 800$.

[@ji3200]

Nvidia and AMD will kill the pc gaming market. 2 smartass taiwanese company. Please Samsung bring pc gpu and save pc market

[@shredderorokusaki3013]

During the pandemic onN ovemvber 2021 the gtx 970 i hadu ntil then burned. Because of that i was forced to buy a new graphics card while my plan was to wait until the crazy high pc demand/pc sales due to pandemic to be over and return to normal and then buy a graphics card. On the irt shop i went there was only one graphics card left: a RX 6700XT RED DEVIL for 950 euros. It is the most expensive card i have ever bought but i had no choice. However it was a huge upgrade in grapihics because since then i run evrytinhg maxed 1440p 60 fps and graphics look like real in most games! MY MONSTER PC IS RYZEN 7 1700 1 6 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 RX 6700XT 12 GB RED DEVIL MP 600 2TB WRITE:4950MB/S RREAD:4250MB/S DELLP2416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS

[@halo2bounceguy]

Got a 4070ti for 4K gaming, but only spending $120 out of pocket. Between reward points and reselling my 3070, this was the way choice for me to upgrade.

[@Vor_Tex_Sun]

Nice one. Yeah 4070ti if you check the benchmarking charts, sits quite high up there. It's about performance and this card delivers in spades. Amazon are selling rigs atm for 1500 euros and a Ryzen7 5700X with 32GB ram. You would need to swap out the CPU FAN for a water cooled one. That's the best option to get this next gen card. And that's a great deal

[@asd-dr9cf]

Nice! How do you find it in handling games in 4k? Did you find you had to upgrade your pc cooling?

[@GabeFaypon]

Might sell my 3070 for 4070 ti as well

[@crimsoncoconut6463]

I keep on hear everyone say that 4070ti is not that good but the 3090 ti's and the 4080s are more expensive. Is it worth getting the 4070 ti?

[@melkert81]

@@crimsoncoconut6463 I am finding that the FPS lows are way worse on the 4070TI, vs the 4080. I think if you want a solid 120FPS/120HZ experience in 1440p, you'll need a 4080. If you can live with under 120FPS, get the 4070ti. Hell, get a 3090ti for half the price of a 4080 used.

[@roax206]

3 months later. In Australia the 4070 ti is selling for a bit over $1300 AUD ($800 USD accounting for GST). This is around the upper end of the normal 3080 pricing.

[@cornedenecker1636]

The world needs more honest people like you who gives these clownshow manufacturers shit. Good on you for speaking up for everyone dude. Keep it up.

[@micsunday14]

Honest? This is pure clickbait

[@Dagger_323]

@@micsunday14 How tf is this clickbait? He laid it right on the line. The only way you could pretend this is clickbait is if you're an Nvidia shill or something, and that's not beyond reasonable suspicion...

[@micsunday14]

@@Dagger_323 here we go. Maga language being used by clickbait trolls

[@Dagger_323]

@@micsunday14 I don't even think you know what you're saying at this point. Just tossing out buzzwords that you think offend me.

[@SickAzzTonez]

Can someone give this guy an award or so? This is absolutely the point these days... The industry is so f*cked up and greedy right now. I just bought a RTX 3080 for a somewhat reasonable price and will stick to it till everything cools down or whatever. Paying over a 1000 bucks for a GPU at a time where everything is getting more and more expansive is just ridiculous. Cheers!

[@luissalguero686]

is not their fault, stupid people that buys shit just for the argument that "i have money, I can buy anything I want" without taking in consideration what they are buying, if they need it and even IF they spend every dollar they got, and that's where inflation starts

[@SickAzzTonez]

@@luissalguero686 It is their faul, too. Sure the people that purchase everything without thinking about it, even from sculpers are not the smartest but if for example nvidia would restrict the order amount to one card (or even 5) per address the sculpers had less chances to get their hands on an infinite amount of cards and sell the for around double the price. But what they did is raise their prices since stupid people would buy it anyway. As a company it is understandable. They want money and as long as the cards get sold it doesn‘t matter to them who will pay them. But that is the point. It‘s important to find the sweetspot between making it almost impossible to get the card at a normal price and having them all sold to valuable customers that are actually willing to use them instead of reselling at an insane pricepoint.

[@YouTubeChillZone]

@@SickAzzTonez It wouldn't do anything, they would just annoy customers and diggers would buy anyway buying more pieces by different personal data is not a problem

[@YouTubeChillZone]

@@SickAzzTonez I guess they wanted to capitalize as much as possible until there is interest And so they won, prices even if they fall, they will still be much higher than before

[@SickAzzTonez]

@@KZbinChillZone Different adresses might be harder for them i guess but you might be right. The best way to stop this is just refuse to buy the cards at an insane price from sculpers.

[@Defender2516]

I'm running at 1080 which is a 2016 card and I always had that "must buy a new graphics card!" feeling. Now days though, because of the prices, I just don't get that "must have" anymore. Infact, I don't even care anymore. They can have their 2,000 dollar cards, I'll just keep happily playing on my 1080 for the next 5 years. Then when prices for these cards are around 500 dollars, I will "upgrade".

[@ronsmith4325]

I was in the process of putting together a new system and decided to take a look at what the 4080's were going for, my jaw literally hit the floor when I saw the average asking price from local stores was about $1900 CAD. That makes the GPU alone over 50% the cost of the system at this point, pure insanity and greed.

[@BrooklynDoge]

I picked one up for $1100 USD only because my 1080 ti is going on six years.

[@igottheshaft]

I was nuts back in the day, I had a little disposable cash and bought a Titan Black for over $1,100. I thought I was crazy for spending over $1k on a graphics card. It was fun though, having bleeding edge performance. Ironically, I sold that card for as much as I paid for it one year later after the 1070 was released. I bought the 1070 at release for $500, and pocketed the $600 difference. The performance was identical, and that's a real value proposition. The Titan Black was the only tech thing that I have ever sold later for as much as I paid for it. Then crypto went insane, there were card shortages, prices shot through the roof, then Covid. The whole time I have kept my 1070 waiting for prices (and availability) to come back to reality. Honestly, at this point, this is just an insult from Nvidia. By pricing this way, I'll just hold onto my existing card for longer. Previously, I purchased a 780, 980, Titan Black, and a 1070 from Nvidia. Oh well, if that's the way they want to play it, games are still fun with my 1070. Maybe I'll buy one card from them every decade - it's already been 6.5 years on the 1070 and I am still enjoying it. I never thought I'd own a graphics card for as long as a car.

[@ccp1576]

tbh those all seem like crypto cards. at the appropriate msrp very convenient .

[@johnbartender3451]

I still run a 980Ti… and moved on to console gaming. I dont care anymore.

[@JH11717]

I had a 1070 and sold it during the COVID crypto boom I got back what I paid for it 5/6 years ago

[@ThePurplePassage]

I think they're only pricing new cards so high to encourage people to buy up the rest of the 30 series first. I know it sounds unrealistic, but once they're gone, then prices might fall somewhat, because Nvidia know they are pricing themselves out of sales at this level price/performance (currently that's ok for them because they don't want to undermine sales of their 30 series stock). But once their 30 series cards are cleared, then they won't have anything that mid to lower end buyers will realistically buy (at least not many will pay current prices) so I figure (or hope) 40 series prices should start to fall a little, probably in modest steps, so they can try and tempt more people to bite. This all ignores the potential impact of competition from AMD and maybe Intel. Although AMD haven't matched the 4090 in performance, they will be able to match lower end 40 series cards, and have lower marginal cost. So hopefully they will undercut nvidia to steal market share. If that happens then defensive price cuts from nvidia may come sooner. At least this is all in principle, anyway. Cross your fingers and don't pay extortionate prices for cards guys

[@ozpin8329]

My last two cards have been a 750ti and a 1060 3g. I had been looking to upgrade to a 30 series around Black Friday but the way that NVIDIA has been acting with all this, I decided to pull the trigger on an RX6600 for a little under $200 and it's been a fantastic upgrade. Might be worth it for you as well.

[@mpxz999]

I could not agree with you more. As someone who has been building enthusiast systems since 2002 or so, it's just sickening to see how low and greedy major players in the industry have become in the last 5 years. I know, we cant go back in time, but it's sad to know what new people to the hobby will have to endure, or miss out on entirely, in the current 'era'.

[@ceuser3555]

Consumers brought it upon themselves when they patronized scalpers. The only way to bring it back to pricing before the pandemic is to stop buying gpus.

[@TonyMariani]

It's $400 cheaper and 20% faster than a 3080ti in rasterization... what's the problem?

[@TonyMariani]

@Zoran that's only true if nvidia doesn't release cards in lower price brackets. If the 4050 ends up being $400 but 20-30% faster than a 3070 then it would be a good value still. For all we know, nvidia could release a reasonably priced 4030 in the low end segment that beats the 3050. Seems to me they are just advusting the model numbers to make room for more skus across the price range.

[@TonyMariani]

@Zoran I mean whatever. My point is that people should be comparing prices to performance instead of model numbers to performance. If a new $800 card is 20-30% faster than last gen's $1200 card in rasterization and way faster in ray tracing, that's a good value esp with lower power consumption that will save you money in the long run. Who cares about the model number.

[@TonyMariani]

@Zoran haha yup. Tho inflation and supply chain issues certainly play a factor too. We should probably be lucky to see any price for price value increase at all.

[@Axeo_98]

changed this month from 1080ti to 4070ti - massive difference

[@madmattressiv]

I haven’t built a computer in 20 years, just gamer on console. But, the last few nights these videos have been recommended to me, so I started watching them. It is absolutely insane the price to build a decent gaming computer. You can basically get everything needed for a custom build and be the same price as one of these fking gpu’s! People are getting ripped off by these companies! Jay, I wish you guys had the ability to make gaming cards at a price that would smoke these other companies and put them out of business. Thanks for your videos, I’ll still build a pc with all of the input from your videos.

[@thechosenfun1]

Really appreciate this honest review. I'm a nvidia user and have been for many "generations", but things are completely out of hand. It's good to see a video like this from a channel like yours (and Linus just put one up about nvidia lying about the 4070ti as well). People need to hear the truth in order for change to even start.

[@TheDeeaboss]

The reviews shouldn't even be aired, just say it's crap and move on, would this be the first time Nvidia lied 😄

[@halfeatenburrito1]

@@TheDeeaboss no but this time it’s borderline illegal false marketing with the performance charts

[@sammccollum2985]

The only way this will get better is if you vote with your dollars and buy AMD or Intel this time around. If you're not willing to do that, you've shown Nvidia that they can do this and their customer base will just take it and you can't complain about the situation.

[@coolieee]

@@sammccollum2985 amd has their own problems right now , i rsther pay extra for an nvidia card that works than have to go through what 7k users are going through right now & amd sucks dick at productivity & editing programs

[@Spartan086]

@@sammccollum2985 the problem is, AMD isn’t looking so hot right now either at least with their 7000 cards, and Intel doesn’t have anything above mid tier to begin with. That and there will always be fanboys who won’t stop buying…

[@KyleP133]

The RTX 3080 Strix I bought based on your advice last fall, saying that nVidia wouldnt lower prices anymore and they were going to control inventories and price the new stuff high, etc.... Zero regrets on that one. It was an awesome move in hindsight.

[@sasquatchhadarock968]

Once the last cryptobro is arrested in the caymans prices might actually start normalizing

[@b0x3d1n9]

I did the same. Bought a vision 3080 at just the right time.

[@mrsunshine63755]

I bought the EVGA 3070 @ MSRP . Very Happy.

[@ScrewFearMe]

@@sasquatchhadarock968 Doesn't really matter with the crypto, Nvidia is having more than 80% profit margins on these cards, if they sold these cards at 599 or maybe even 499 instead of 799 they would still make money

[@dampintellect]

Yeah it's looking like anyone with a 30 series rtx or a 60 series amd card should just ride those for one or two generations at minimum. The 40 and 70 series seems to be having issues left and right for a huge cost. 1000$ cards that have issues out of the box from both sides, and marketing deception from both as well.

[@benjaminhinkle9390]

does a 4070ti make for a good upgrade over my 1080 ti? Still running 8700k, don't want to have to get a new power supply etc. 1440 p gaming

[@jeffreybarker357]

Jeez. I discovered gaming PCs two days ago and wanted to build one on the upper end. Buuuut maybe I also hold off until this whole thing levels out. Thanks for the video, Jay. This is nuts...

[@kinbailey310]

Big corporations are always big liars. Thats why we rely on people like you Jay and Linus and Gamer's Nexus.

[@dumbodum]

no not really, but some are for sure, and some bend the truth a bit too much

[@kinggalactix]

@@dumbodum (*coughs) Nestle.

[@brkbtjunkie]

All of the aforementioned are incorporated. Where is the delineation between regular corporations (good) and big corporations (bad)?

[@DekkarJr]

@@kinggalactix nestle wants to own all teh water on earth lmao absolute psychopath at the head of the crunch bar company lol

[@kinggalactix]

@@DekkarJr I'd consider them sociopaths. But otherwise, this is true.

[@Downfallx360]

Went from a 1660 super to a 3060ti for $300 on black friday. THAT was worth it. I'll wait till the 5000's. Loved your advice and honest take. You just got another follower

[@reniervandermerwe]

Bought a 5700xt for same price as 3060ti and it hands down beats the 3060ti

[@uberweeb2201]

@@reniervandermerwe really? mine just overheats

[@AlejandroMartinez-yv1gh]

The whole Amd/Nvidia new gen is chalked

[@mr.something7597]

5000 series are probably going to also have inflated pricing, so good luck with that

[@BlackWinds]

Yeah. Helped my friend build a new computer and he went from a 970 to rx 6700xt for $310. Pretty good.

[@MrHav1k]

Imma be running my 1080Ti into the ground it looks like lol

[@Bdub7800]

I just bought a 4070ti for $799 USD. I'm replacing my 2080 Super with it. I believe I paid around $750 for the 2080s back when it was new a few years ago. From what I read, it seems like it'll be quite a bit better @1440p. Anywhere from 2 to 4 times the FPS depending on the title. We'll see when it gets here in a couple days. Liked the review, as well as you speaking truth.

[@cravingsoda8686]

which type of 4070 ti did you get and how well is it

[@VualDaZart]

@@cravingsoda8686old post, ik, but he probably picked up the PNY brand one on amazon, not a bad brand but they rarely honor warranties

[@AxR558]

I'm honestly really glad that I managed to grab my 3070 FE at MSRP, if prices stick at the current ludicrous levels going forward then I highly doubt I'll be upgrading any time soon. Just far too many other things that I could put that kind of money into, I think that they've forgotten that gaming is a hobby for 99% of people. The only hobbies I put that kind of money into are kayaking and photography, in both cases (boat and camera) they've lasted me 10 and 6 years respectively, with no signs that they need to be replaced in the near future.

[@TheEvilPorkchop03]

i’ve recently upgraded from the BEST gpu ever: The 1080ti. i was able to get a 4080 16gb (thank god) a WHOOOOOLE lot cheaper than that 4070ti trading “unrelated” items.

[@popcornfilms1]

@@TheEvilPorkchop03 no, you paid full MSRP don’t bullshit

[@TheEvilPorkchop03]

@@popcornfilms1 ha no way i’d do that. if i was going to pay anywhere near asking price i would’ve spent my money on the 4090 or honestly just waited to see what other catastrophes would be released, but i couldn’t pass up this deal.

[@TheEvilPorkchop03]

@InSomnia DrEvil you could look for older alternatives/ second hand. used 1080tis are going for 150 - 300 in my area pretty amazing deal in my opinion. should still revive driver for the forseable future and it rivals a 3060ti. (you have to have a very good cpu though)

[@Gimpy17]

@InSomnia DrEvil hey bud, you know there are A LOT of different choices in GPUs for you that would be an upgrade. GTX 1070, 1080, rx 6600, 6600xt, 6650xt, RTX 2060, 2060 S, 2070, 2070S, 1660 ti, 1660 S, and many more. All of those cards have been flying off the shelves due to their extremely competitive prices nowadays. I suggest you take advantage ASAP.

[@icky_thump]

I've always been a "mid-tier" gpu person. My last two cards (R9 290 > 1070ti) were both right at the $450 price point. Something that was "expensive" to me at their respective times, but they felt like good VALUE at least. Picking up my RTX 3070 last summer for like $799 (being FORCED into the Newegg bundles and getting a PSU i didnt want) was a sting for me... Now seeing a 70 series card capable of 1000? Gtfo I'm so done...

[@backlogbuddies]

I always bought the GTS line until it was removed. Then i switched to either a 50 or 60 class card. With Intel focusing on that part of the market, and significantly cheaper, I'll more than likely switch when it's time to replace my 3060.

[@arkplaysgame3826]

@@backlogbuddies i had gt or gts 8600

[@pietmyvrou8149]

I'm really feeling for the pc guys. I fortunately only have money for a console so that's where I'm staying

[@Eric-uy7ee]

@@pietmyvrou8149 As one of those PC guys, you are definitely getting the best value on console vs pc pricing I've seen in a long time.

[@shortyg1018]

@@pietmyvrou8149 Yeah I'm about to buy a Series S instead of building a new PC, this shit is ridicolous.

[@XANGETSTRICKY]

But y’all will spend 1,000+ on the 3090 😂

[@cosminandreicodrea4704]

Today I bought an RTX 4070ti brand new for $600 or 2800 RON in my country's currency. Insane value!

[@AI_Surfer]

GPU sales are at a 20 year low, so this should be a buyers market. However it would appear that those buyers who are in the market, are willing to over-pay for a GPU. These are sad times indeed. Excellent video Jay. Thanks.

[@gm5383]

-Energy crisis -Cost of living crisis -Massively inflated GPU prices -"GPU sales are at a 20 year low" * confused Nvidia marketting noises *

[@pvmchrisy]

​@@gm5383 the energy crisis is made up to increase profits for big companys. we have many many ways to get renewable clean energy they just dont wanna pay for the production cost and wait for the returns. sad sad planet we live on. had to chime that in there, sorry

[@benjamin-sch]

@@pvmchrisy What do you mean it's made up? You think the HUGE gas lines between Russia and Europe are made up? LOL!

[@ScarrowLP]

@@benjamin-sch No he is somewhat right. I live in Europe and have a electricity contract with states delivering 100% green energy. But because electricity is somehow allowed to be traded like fucking stocks, it will increase by 600% in 4 Months for me. And that has nothing to do with gas, its 100% green. Companies just get greedy as fuck.

[@wumi2419]

@@pvmchrisy the returns aren't coming if energy cost is "normal", and even then, building takes time. Also, renewable clean energy depends on weather. Just 1 or 2 years ago Europe had a period in winter with no wind and clouds. Unsurprisingly, solar panels and wind turbines produced no energy and gas price spiked

[@CommodoreFan64]

Jay I don't think you could have ended this video any better, as I've been a tech nerd my entire life getting a Commodore Vic-20 when I was 2 as my family's first computer, and over the years buying/building the best I could work to afford, but over the past several years, it's just gotten to damn expensive to keep up, which is why I've been running a lot of used, and salvaged gear on Linux, and playing what games my hardware can run keeping them going long as possible, and for the rest using my Switch Lite, and Nokia Android tablet, and saying screw it, as I have more important things in life then dropping $2k on a gaming PC.

[@NapFloridian]

since 2017 the same mind set... still running a 1060 SSC from NVIDIA and a GEN-1 Ryzen 1700... I give a shit for all these High end games I have no time to play anyways, nor do I want to... much more important things in live anyways. 100% agree with your statement

[@kaliek5281]

So. I picked up an MSI 4070ti off Amazon for $829.99 Id say $30 over MSRP isnt too bad. Same seller now has them up for $875 or so (as of Feb 10 2023). It was basically the only card in my budget as the rest were $1k+ at the moment. ~$800 was my budget for GPU, and $30 over was...reasonable imo. Now I play in 1440p not 4k, and Im upgrading from a 1080 8gig, so its still a huge upgrade for someone like me.

[@razaalikhan6948]

I game at 1440p with ray tracing off on my 3070. I get to around 100 or slightly more with max graphics on games usually. I'm happy.

[@Daz555Daz]

I was concerned that the £520 I spent on a 3080 on Black Friday would turn out to be a mistake when the 4070 cards were launched. Seems like I had nothing to worry about.

[@luetheler8867]

I just bought a 3080 12gb for 900€. Prices are crazy, there are even some 10gb 3080‘s at over 1000€..

[@gm5383]

where'd you even find that? New or refurb? I was looking but there was nothing in stock. There are still places with 3080 stock trying to sell them for £900-1200, it's mental, like who the f is actually guna buy that, it serves no purpose than to try and justify 40XX prices. I'm so over it, I'm still on a gtx970 which is so badly limiting my 13600k and desperate to upgrade, I refused to pay the inflated mining 30XX prices hoping 40XX would at least return to semi sensible price:performance and it's just getting worse.

[@pvmchrisy]

@@luetheler8867 search ebay and change location...

[@alm31]

@@gm5383you can get 3090s for £600 quid on eBay in the in the uk right now

[@n3xus236]

I was able to get a 3080ti for $700 brand new (not tax included), there is a local store where i am which sell gpus at near stock price or stock price they even had a special sale on black friday too

[@bobwesley4634]

If there is something we can learn from this, it's that they can put the prices that they want and there is not much we can do about it. But if we stop buying it, they have to bring them down. The 4000 serie is not selling as it is expected and we can keep it that way until they make a move.

[@jabba334]

Exactly, supply and demand. A seller can ask whatever price they want. The buyer has the choice to say no and either: hold out, or seek a competitive product. This card isn't 'top of the line' and shouldn't cost more than an entire console (PS5). In fact, if NVIDIA keeps this up, I suspect it will hurt game sales of AAA titles on the PC in the future. Or, alternatively this will boost AMD if they get their prices down.

[@erict.35]

Lol expecting microchip prices to go down during ww3 is the best proof of debility. Haha

[@flajflaj]

Tbh, soon GPU's will be used for AI calculations. They will be more expensive and this is only a begining. At the end of the day you will end up with no GPU at all. There will be only some kind of a wireless display or VR set for your mobile device and cloud streaming. This is sad. Yeah. Deal with it.

[@Nutle159]

No, economies of scale matters as well. You will source a larger amount of older cheaper cards (or of older, simpler manufacturing process) if it will cost less but give xomparable performance to the latest cards.

[@Damaged7]

When you consider that nvidia convinced its userbase that generating fake frames is a good thing, yeah, not the brightest bunch and they'll continue overpaying for whatever nvidia puts out.

[@ericxueAAA]

3090ti was $2500 last year, and 4070ti is only 35% of the price, but has the same performance, why do you call 4070ti is a crap? Recently my 3080ti was bricked by Diablo4, and I have to buy a new gpu. Most people bought flippers' cards in the past two years, which means non of us have the factory warranty, the safe place is no more.

[@gmt1]

I bought my first GPU in 2018. It was a 1060 6GB for AU$350 ($230~ USD). Bought a 6600 XT in 2021 during peak retail/scalper prices for AU$730 ($500~ USD). You can now get them used for AU$350~ but that fact it was more than double for a budget/midrange card was depressing. The 2060 and 3060 both sucked yet kept raising the price.

[@HighSpeedTV]

I just want to say that I really appreciate influencers like yourself, gamers nexus, and hardware unboxed, letting these companies hear the voice of the (would be) customers. I'm sure its probably in your best interest financially to be a puppet for Nvidia and AMD but instead, you put them on blast! The PC hardware industry has been rife with anti-consumer moves lately. Hopefully enough people can see through this thinly clouded veil of BS to not buy these things and force some reasonable pricing. Keep up the great work Jay!!

[@N8Nefarious]

Well-said.

[@davidwright8453]

That's why we love Jay ❤️ 😍 💖

[@jcon2060]

LTT?

[@TheReferrer72]

Stop the moaning, the price will come down, these companies should not be pricing the cards low and let the scalpers take the excess profits. Which would happen if Nvidia dropped the price $200.

[@HighSpeedTV]

@@TheReferrer72 i wansnt moaning. I was giving thanks for people reporting quality information and not allowing manufacturers to sway their opinions with money. I am also confused at your premise… cheaper cards would be bad for us? Scalpers attack anything in high demand. By raising the prices higher, nvidia and amd have reduced demand and essentially became the scalpers.

[@TatawakaPlays]

Im currently on a 1050ti system that I’ve been wanting to upgrade for the past 2 years. It truly feels like my next upgrade will be to a 3-4 year old card, which blows my mind.

[@dootpooter4740]

Same I have a 1070 I'm going to use until it dies and then I'm simply going to stop PC gaming because the juice isn't worth the squeeze when I can just get a PS5.

[@misterpinkandyellow74]

Get a rx 6600

[@Dimondminer11]

1080 Ti for $240 on ebay right now and thats for a hybrid EVGA one. I'm actually getting one off FB marketplace in a few days that just has a bad fan (also a hybrid EVGA card) and thats gonna be getting put in my GF's PC

[@SparkyOne549]

I still have a strix Rx580 lol

[@micoloot2455]

Same im still rocking a 1050 ti. Thinking of upgrading with an old card as well cause of this ridiculous pricing of the new cards.

[@Quarrymen69]

I still have a 2070. I was waiting to get in on a 4070, but the prices are ridiculously high. I have the money, but refuse to pay that much. I ended up buying a used 3080 for four bills. A good leap in performance over the 2070. Guess I'll wait for the next release, and see if sanity prevails at that time.

[@TheMash84]

Based on the last 3 to 10 years, the world has lost its sanity

[@joen8091]

I’ve got a 2060 made by Zotac. I often get down on myself / setup because it doesn’t perform anywhere near are good as my friends, but it’s been operating reliably for the last 4 years, seamlessly. I’m happy I’ve been able to avoid all this shit by sticking with old reliable

[@wolfejar]

Joe at the end of the day it’s entertainment. Keep your priorities in life. I’m still running 1070. Been building computers since 2002. These prices are insane. Know this, Triple A games are on the decline in terms of quality and entertaining. Indie games and older games you didn’t get around to play are where the “fun” is at. I’d argue they’re better than what’s being releases now. You don’t need a top performing PC to play those kinds of games. Tons of indie games that developers are passionate about. Go look at how awful Overwatched or the latest Halo. The greed of hardware/software companies are killing the industry. I’m sadden to see the industry going down this path. I found new a hobby. Cheers best of luck.

[@jordancourse5102]

My GPU budget has always been between $200-$500 with the 500 being the max. Currently, I have a RTX 2060 that I got in 2019 for around $350. At the time pretty good price. Now I'm seeing 3060's for $450 - 500 and I know we all see where this is going in terms of pricing.

[@hussameddinshleh]

my friend, I'm still on 1070 since 2017 and still won't upgrade with those insane prices.

[@DevinRostron]

3060's can be had under 300$ now all day. you're looking in the wrong places m8.

[@HehehexDD]

This is why everyone gets AMD instead these days. the RX 6600 has the same performance while being only 230$

[@xSkully_H]

​@Devin KC3TGZ to be fair, maybe hes not in the US. In most places its around 500.

[@DevinRostron]

@@hussameddinshleh try a 5700xt, 150$ or less on ebay. big improvement from a 1070

[@idiotsanonymus56]

It's crazy to me to see the pricing for the RTX 4070ti. I bought my GTX 1080ti in June 2017 for $725 bucks. She's still going strong and will be around for some time longer based on what I'm seeing.

[@exeninja7416]

y, thats why i am sticking to my 2080 for longer now

[@ValentinAdbt]

I bought a GTX1080 in 2018 for 550€... I can't believe the prices now. I will stick with it longer, and play in 4K later.

[@DrRasputin2012]

This. I got my 1080Ti for £800, stuck a waterblock on it, and it happily plays games at 4k with pretty decent framerates. Unless the card breaks, I have no reason to update it to any of the new, extremely expensive price gouged GPUs.

[@jotham97]

$725 is almost $900 today, accounting for inflation. But I will agree, these prices are egregious.

[@mokavellidadon6431]

Upgraded from a 900€, 1080ti 11gb to a 1000€, 3080 10gb two years ago. Now a 4070ti costs 1100€ here in germany. Are u kidding me nvidia? And the dlss 3.0 support only for the 4000 series is a kick in the nuts too.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

The 4070 and 4070ti not having 16 gb of vram is unacceptable imo, at that price point nowadays 16gb should be standard

[@turbogaminz9215]

I had the 3070 ti. Loved that card it didn’t run to hot. Had a pretty decent performance. I switched to a 3080 and gave that card to my brother. Seen noticeable performance boosts from it. My 3080 runs so hot that I’ll be water cooling one day 😂. But I’m definitely not going 40 series till the market crashes with these cards bc these prices are outrageous.

[@quirtthedirt]

Given what I've seen out of the current generations of GPUs, I'm gonna be content with my 3070 for at least another generation. I don't have 800 dollars to throw at what has turned out to be a very small generational improvement

[@quirtthedirt]

@@kzgntosbaga6255 exactly as the other person said, I game at 1440p 144hz high and it made the most sense for that at the time. I do agree that upgrading if you're still able to play what you want is pointless, but at the same time 1440/144 just looks a million times better than 1080/60 ever could.

[@OrIgInScott]

i love my 3070 and am very content for another year or two at a minimum.

[@itsyadadboogiewoogie]

I’m still rocking with my 1070ti… not even thinking of upgrading until it explodes at this point.

[@Lifo9]

3070 gang 😎

[@Dragon151415]

I completely feel that,rocking a strix 3070 and it runs pretty much anything at 1440p 144hz with a 5900x

[@TheBusbyBabes]

as someone who only recently started looking into pc parts and stuff i didnt understand a word xD

[@japonesque]

my god.. a 4090 is cheaper than a 3090 ti??? who in the right mind will buy the 3090 ti?

[@macmccormick5983]

We're at an interesting spot where console games are all still benchmarking around the 2070ish range. Most devs are still catering to these experiences when developing games. Making most high 30 series, and 40 series cards for gamers just frame chasing. Which is great if that's what you're into! But for most folks, a 30 series card is MORE than enough to get a solid experience.

[@penedrador]

You're right, but: once you go high FPS, you'll never go back. 30 FPS were no problem back in my console days, but after joining PCMR I can't handle it anymore... the jump to 60 is crazy, and playing 120+ is just smoooooth

[@legros731]

Like another guy a watched just use a post it wrote the fps uou want on it and glue it in the corner of your screen bingo you get the fps you want just like the fake frame generation get double the frame but with the same input lag that the only reason you want more fps to get better input lag and smoother gameplay

[@StevenZephyc]

@@penedrador I don't know about you, but I'm equally happy playing on my PC and on my switch. Unless you play shooters exclusively, once the honeymoon phase passes, all games are simply games

[@MSJChem]

At 1440p high refresh and below a 3080 is probably enough for most people. If you are chasing 4K 144Hz then a 4090 is the only way to go.

[@RedEverything]

@@penedrador Same here. A couple of years ago I was still using 60hz monitors, now I have a 170hz monitor and 120+ fps is a must for me in all games.

[@AdamantMindset]

this amazing card is perfect for.. sitting at shop shelves, so nice of nvidia to give retailers some decorative goodies :)

[@bvregrillz1068]

Brokie

[@vontrapp9853]

I got an 3080 ftc for 650 on offer from an Asian dude who spent 1200 from a scalper during the height of the pandemic. I feel so blessed and I will definitely be keeping for awhile and wait for Intel to come out with their own GPUS at a great entry point

[@ashleyobrien4937]

you know you are getting old when Jay mentions a 7900 XTX and you remember a card from like twenty odd years ago that had the same name.....

[@LukeHimself]

I've paid attention to 3090 Ti and other GPU "SOLD ITEMS" on ebay for the past month or so, and 3090 Ti's have been consistently selling between $600 and $1000, usually around $800. The EVGA cards typically pull more of a ~$1500 price (not always, two EVGA FTW3 sold for $550 & $580 free shipping on Dec. 26th), but that's all about EVGA exiting the GPU market.

[@r4m_beastkmc744]

I recently bought a water cooled 3090 ti from Asus over marketplace for 850. Came with a warranty from micro center that doesn't expire until 2025.

[@kenk039]

Yep, been building PCs for friends and family for over 30 years, I just finished my new build for me and ended up spending way too much money to the point where this is probably my last build. And that was without buying from scalpers which I will not do….. GPU was the hardest component to find in stock. Crazy

[@mackan072]

Suddenly consoles makes sense again.

[@thannydevitos2332]

I spent 1099 on a 3080 last year😢

[@spankbuda5760]

I just spent $300 on a gently used EVGA 3080 Ti on Offer Up. I love these times of recession. It's like XMAS all over again!

[@oxiiacid]

Don't stop making builds! Like another commenter said, a higher 30 series is more than enough for builds. You don't need to go for every updated part. Don't let them ruin your experience.

[@chrisjr6214]

@@mackan072 They always have.

[@secretasianman7622]

Still rocking my 1080Ti. Such an amazing value card 😌

[@dagucka]

I now had to get a gpu to have a pc and i went for the 4070ti. I did the following: I chose which type (brand/configuration) of cards in each version has what i want and compared them. The 4070ti and the 4090 had the same price/performance for me. The 4070 and the 4080 were way off. And i do not want to pay 1900€ for a gpu, i prefer to have the 4070ti for 2-4 years and upgrading then if i want to. With the 4070ti i feel like i am able to upgrade more easily, while with the 4090 i would have to stay with it at least twice as long as with the 70ti.

[@jakev1341]

If you take a look at bike shops around the US, you will notice that due to oversupply in the off-months of sale, they have to sell their stuff for much cheaper than the msrp originally stated. This is what needs to happen in the GPU market. I just don't see it happening due to the sheer volume of consumers willing to pay the price.

[@michaelmonstar4276]

There's a weird mentality in these framerate-hungry geeks that it overrides all logic. Gaming is truly an addiction and it's never enough. - Pretty sad that it's all just for CS:GO, CoD, and GTA Online as well... Don't these people have jobs to go to, to be able to afford these things??...

[@bruhtholemew]

@@michaelmonstar4276 What's with the hostility? Because you have a job you shouldn't be able to game?

[@blazeygraal6409]

@@michaelmonstar4276 idc I'm buying a 4080

[@tcc5750]

@@michaelmonstar4276 I got an XTX and 4090. I play cyberpunk and other demanding titles on my days off. It’s not any worse than people binging shows on their days off etc.

[@DerdOn0ner]

Nvidia is already starting to produce less cards, to prevent this from happening

[@Jimmy-6300]

I think the biggest mistake they made with the 4070Ti (other then the obviously ludicrous pricing) is the fact they cut the memory bandwidth down so much that while it has the memory of a high end card, it has the bandwidth of a budget SKU. Even my 1070 (I bought new in 2016 and STILL am using) has a 256 memory bandwidth. At 1440p I don't think I have ever used more then 60% of my VRAM either, in any title. At this point I am saving up to buy a used 3070-3080 soon as I have two kids and things to pay for and cannot justify spending near $1k or more (the ENTIRE budget of my last PC) on just one part, the GPU. I don't even care if I buy a card that was used for mining, I would rather pay $400 for an old mining card off eBay then spend this much on an overpriced card and contribute to this LUDICROUS pricing

[@maxszeto7030]

Paid 550 usd for a used 3080 strix. Calling it a day, set for years on 1440p. 2nd hand cards are the way to go.

[@aussiezx3017]

i got my rx 580 of ebay like 6 years ago it use for mining still run all game on 4k monitors why spend $1500 here au new just file mod get better looking game.

[@Road_Work_Ahead]

Just picked up a used pny 3080 and it's sick. Temps are hella cool, and it hasn't struggled with anything at 1440

[@1dozmos]

Agreed. I’m still running a 1060 6gb and it plays most games fine at 1440p. Of course it doesn’t have the best graphics but they’re not dreadful! Certainly playable with 50-60 fps and some peaks of 90fps in some scenarios

[@Ghost87142]

I have just bought here in the UK a full pc from scan computers £1468 Ryzen 5 5600 palit 3080 16gb Corsair vengeance 3200 with a Samsung 980 pro 1tb plays all my games at 1440p over 100fps why the hell would u pay the ludicrous amount for the 4080 it baffles me think I'm set for years on this rig

[@JohnnyLyft]

I bought the RTX-4070 Gigabyte OC windforce onsale for $549 at Bestbuy last month. I saw the 4070ti at $800 sitting on the shelf and said "HELL NO" that price for a 4070 upstep was in my mind a joke with only 192bit ringbus. I cant wait to see the pricing for the 4080ti or for that matter the 4080 prices. I really want the 4080ti when it's ever gonna be at the $1k price. I'll just put it on my credit card.

[@karakaaa3371]

The 3090 has productivity value with its 24gb vram, which can explain why it still has a demand.

[@Sponty84]

The pricing of these cards is outrageous. I'll be sticking with my 2080 for quite a while I think.

[@tuberoyful]

I'll be sticking with my 3070Ti.

[@Milchschndde]

its still a fine card with all relevant features so why not

[@BolshoyZloyDed]

I'll be sticking with my 1060

[@ab00781]

2070 super still going strong 💪🏾

[@jasminwu6360]

@@ab00781 even 3050 is still good considering its cheap

[@joshzwies3601]

I would love to see the cost/markup prices at each stage of distribution.

[@MaxxKoggen]

Remember the EVGA debacle? The margins were already low at the MSRP set by Nvidia which is why cards will always cost way more than expected from AIBs. That would include packaging and shipping to retailers. AIBs or retailers lowering the cost without Nvidia initiating it means everyone but Nvidia loses money just so they can clear shelves since AIBs purchased the GPU silicon at Nvidia's pricing and retailers at the AIBs price. They would need to be refunded some of that cost before prices can drop well enough, especially for the older cards. That's why a 3900X CPU still costs more than a 5900X.

[@albertmas3752]

@@MaxxKoggen to be true I don't give a fuck about retailers. They are the reason for those high prices we have nowadays. Their greed rising prices in cards that launched at a certain price and they more than doubled the price in their stores brought us to this. Zotac RTX 3070 Twin Edge launched at ~$500. It reached $1,200 at retailers. Now it's hard for them to make money because Nvidia and AMD have decided to get the most chunk of that overprice. It's okay by me. Now the industry from up to down will learn that you don't mess with the customers.

[@only4posting]

It's easy to have an idea... Look at the intel arc 3xx, with 6gb of gddr6X.. yes, X... sold at, I think, 159 bucks. Now, let's assume intel is willing to make at least 50-60 bucks, on each unit sold. We're left with $100. Now, assuming the factory, the guy who imports/ transport, the guy who stores it in a big warehouse, and ultimately, the online retailer, they all make 30-40 bucks, that means the card + packaging + everything else, must cost intel around 50 - 60 bucks, to manufacture... Now, if we calculate the price of the gpu + pcb assembly +quality assurance + testing + packaging, let's say, 20, 30 bucks max, that means... Those 6 GB of Gddr6X probably only cost 20 to 30 bucks ! Come on, let's be optimistic, and say the 6GB cost 40 bucks ! That means, the price of these memories aren't exactly what the industry, amd... Nvidia... Sony, etc, wants us to believe ! Then, when Yuku are a big company like Nvidia, you don't order it by the hundreds of by the thousands of units. No. They will order 10k... or even 100k... and that means an extra % price cut. No, gigabytes of gddr6 or gddr6x don't cost hundreds, if not thousands $, like many want us to believe ! A rtx3090, with 24GB of gddr6x ? Well, Nvidia are probably paying less than 200 bucks, for those 24GB of memory ! Let's say the 3090 pcb and components, + the main gpu, + cooling system + testing and packaging will cost Nvidia 150 to 200 bucks... with 200 bucks for the memory, a 3090 used to cost under $400. Sold at $1999, that's a pretty nice margin. Seeing that, we can assume that it would only cost 20..or 30 bucks, for the ps5 to have gddr6x, instead of gddr6 ! With gddr6x memory, the ps5 would probably be a +12Tflops system, instead of 10.3TF !.... so GREEDY ! Lol, and when we think Nvidia wanted to charge an extra $200... to go from the 12GB to the 16GB model...

[@stormwolf8888]

@@albertmas3752the problem with that is then the retailers will just mark it up even more at that point, putting more price on the average gamer.

[@albertmas3752]

@@stormwolf8888 then we just do what we've been doing since RTX 4000 and RX 7000 came out: we don't buy and leave the shelves completely full. Until they go bankrupt. Then we can buy all this stuff at 10% its price and dance over the grave of their companies.

[@aneeshfroome4464]

Looks like I'm sticking with my 1080ti for another generation. I'd like an upgrade, but tbh it still works well for the games I play and I rather wait than upgrade now

[@EpicShitForYou]

Dude, my 1080ti which was pretty much the flagship of that generation i got for 699 like 5-6 years ago when it just came out. The cost of flagship models today is ridiculous. Even a supposedly midrange card sells at a higher price...

[@Zombie101]

Literally said the same thing to my friend the other day. The x1950xtx was the flagship ATI card of the time. It was $400 and I thought that was really expensive... 🤣

[@thewhitesquirrel8211]

Love it when jay doesn't hold back punches and tells it like it is

[@HEKVT]

I appreciate the realism displayed in Jay's content, what the everyday person can afford, and it's most certainly not going to be 60 series performance for 80 series prices.

[@krectus]

This card outperforms the previous generations' 90ti in a lot of ways, it's priced right at $800 but the branding is all messed up.

[@TotalDbag24]

@@krectus Kinda right, but also kinda wrong. Percentage wise it's about right. The problem is the top cards are so expensive that they're throwing the whole price range out of whack. The 1070 for example beat the 980ti for half the price. The 4070ti beats the 3090ti for half the price, but the 980ti was only $700, while the 3090ti is $1500

[@noduj]

Its like in every industry, the main issue is, that there are only two competitors in the market and they both make big money.

[@yifanchen5262]

I remember when i bought my asus tuf 3060 ti for almost 800$ when there was mining epidemic and also a rise of the american dolar in Costa Rica. And my brother bought an asus tuf 3080 for 1250$ gahdamn. Just remembering gave me bad chills.

[@bertreynolds8146]

I hate having to buy and research gfx cards these days, it used to be a fun endeavor knowing you're going to upgrade your rig now it's more confusing and stressful than ever.

[@AdmiralSAS1]

agreed :(

[@redmoose1447]

the confusing bit is why am i spending $500+ for next to no improvement.

[@Bossfightmedia]

@@redmoose1447 Its called marketing and is supposed to keep them from needing innovation if they can just gaslight you into buying it regardless.

[@yushkovyaroslav]

Technology just simply can't progress more without a major breakthrough. Phones are already all the same for last 5 + years. Soon it will be with graphics cards. It's so little and marginal what you can do with this. People overestimate human progression in technology just because we got this huge jump in last 50 years. But there is only so much you can squeeze out of one creation. This companies rely on making new innovations to survive, but there is just nothing they can do except just add more stuff to it. Like what's the point of 4k or now even 8k? it doesn't do anything. No one can tell the difference. It only eats up more processing power, completely useless. But it gives an excuse for people to buy and for graphics cards to become bulkier with simply more things shoved into it. I mean what do you people expect? Obviously, progression will be really slow soon and less and less people will be upgrading constantly so they prices have to be higher because less people are actually purchasing. In this case simple supply and demand doesn't actually work. There is a limit to how low they can be, and that limit is above what would small enough price point where people that would have not upgraded would upgrade it because it was "just that cheap" So the price has to reflect what people that already are upgrading cards constantly would pay. Most of such people don't really care if its $100 more expensive or not. But that's how company can equalize less people constantly upgrading. It's not only about making money it's about making as much money or more than you made last year. Because, when you made more money, you already have spent it on new jobs / research and possibly new facilities. You got new investors that want to get a return on their investment, which would be impossible if the company makes less money. So that is why the price is the way that it is.

[@yushkovyaroslav]

@@redmoose1447 Because our currently technology has reached its limits. And company needs a return on investments.

[@Vorundor]

I used to build my own OCs for years, took a break for about 5 years and these prices are insane. I know how but how did we end up here? Where are the good $300-$400 cards?!? This is madness. I still have my GTX970 which I got for like $300 back then... Insane.

[@jjmmjj9999]

Same. My PC story is, 6300fx / gtx650(still alive) 4690k / gtx970(still alive) (paid £350 new) 4690k / gtx1070 (died, went back to my 970) (paid about £450 new) 4690k / 980Ti (bought after my 1070 died, current set up) (paid £200 2nd hand during covid) Looking to upgrade to a 2020ish spec and i'm lost lol.. i'm looking at a 5800x/6800xt purely on price/performance but honestly so unsure

[@alexbrown1050]

I don't want any more wattage so I got a 3060 12GB from a 1070.

[@tusux2949]

@@jjmmjj9999 6600, 6700 and 6800, XT or not are the current meta if you don't want to get ripped off. Depending on local pricing and funds. Nvidia's 3000 series is EOL already, because they refuse to let the new DLSS run on them. If you don't intend to use DLSS, a 3060 12GB (not the new 8GB crappy version) is decent, basically a 2060Super-2070 level of performance with more VRAM; maybe stretch it to 3060Ti, it all depends on the price you can find them for. But they are decent cards.

[@jjmmjj9999]

@@tusux2949 yea, I can get a 6800xt for £600(gbp) and its pretty much in between 3070/3080 in terms of performance and about £130 cheaper than a 3080 (both new prices) Only thing is, I'm wary of amd drivers, but I've heard they've gotten a lot better 3060Ti is about £100 cheaper so in terms of pricing,

[@jjmmjj9999]

@@tusux2949 just found a new 3080 for £703 vs the 6800xt for £603 I think the 3080 is better, just due to drivers and I can stretch the £100 it's not a problem really

[@JohnNorris411]

You know what would be cool. On the graphs, if you had the current price of each card next to the name of the card. So you can also get that bang for the buck impression. I am in the market, But I could not afford any of those cards anyway, Hell I am still rocking my 13 year old HD 6950 from 2010 in my brand-new build.

[@lrcofficialmusic]

Me chilling here with a 1080ti still going strong after nearly 7 years. Havent found an upgrade worth it yet.

[@yesilbursa]

They are scalper prices Jay. Nvidia took the market price and put it on the sticker. I'm really cheering for team red and blue to catch up and give really good high end competition.

[@N4xu5]

Strange times where gamers should root for Intel and hope they can save the price inflation...

[@yesilbursa]

@@N4xu5 yea. Normally you'd need 4 or more for good competition

[@jonathandawson3091]

A big reason to get the 3090 ti is for machine learning applications. There the double amount of VRAM makes it incredibly attractive compared to 4070 ti.

[@reezlaw]

For almost any productivity workflow the 3090Ti is still better than the 4070Ti IMHO. Especially 3D rendering

[@DesGeretGetNet]

@@reezlaw Exactly, for me who likes to render large scenes with iRay or Blender, it's all about the VRAM. And 24GB is massive. If energy prices hadn't increased by factor 10 here, I would have already got myself a used 3090/ti to replace my 2080ti!

[@reezlaw]

@@DesGeretGetNet yep, Blender is exactly what I had in mind. I love it!

[@tuberoyful]

@@reezlaw Yet despite the 4090 existing the 3090 is still very expensive😏

[@reezlaw]

@@tuberoyful because at nvidia when it comes to pricing they're basically full schizo

[@alanhaigh9682]

They've priced me out of wanting another gaming pc, I sold my 3070 when it had value. No decent games to play, just bored of it all. I think my love of pc tech is over, it started at 20 I'm now 48.

[@WeaveYaWorld2024]

I believe the initial purpose of the 40 series cards was Crypto Mining. I don't think they had gamers in mind in the slightest. Gaming was an afterthought and a bonus. The process and way they were made make it clear, especially with the higher-end cards. Then, the market crashed. So they just kept the prices high and consistently relaunched cards slightly better than the last. Because people will buy them just to be considered on the higher end. I know so many people running a 4090 on a 60Hz monitor its not even funny.

[@ghoula_]

Thanks for always being real about what the average person might be able to afford and what’s really important beyond our passion for gaming.

[@Sgt.Dornan117]

This is just a glimpse of the Techno dystopia we're falling deeper in too, while right to repair getting neutered. Strap in,it's gonna get bumpy

[@MrProthall]

Man, I am so glad I take the George Carlin approach now... let's be distanced, let's just not care about humanity anymore. Makes it way more entertaining!

[@DanielFrost79]

We're already in the middle of the bumpy road, we've been here for a while. But if you JUST noticed it... you're already effed!

[@attemptityourself5662]

The second half of that seems demonstrably false. Right to repair has only made progress in the last 2-3 years. Traditionally corporations have been able to lock down their products to limit end user serviceability. But in the last decade strides have been made much to the chagrin of corporations like apple to improve end user serviceability. Hence why apple put out their little "rentable repair tools" allowing end users to get the tools apple themselves use to repair their products. In the past apple would have told anyone asking to go sit on a cactus.

[@chrissimao14]

@@DanielFrost79 this is just the beginning friend😆

[@Drip7914]

Why should nvidia price the 4070 ti even cheaper when it’s already undercutting the inferior 7900xt by 100? They’re not a charity haha they have to price their products relative to the market.

[@rayomar32]

im still loving my 1080ti i honestly dont see any reason to upgrade it for a very long time

[@javiej]

That's just the old trick in action: Sellers owning 30 series stock publishing a lot of ads at high prices to manipulate the market.(eBay / Newegg ads are very cheap for professional sellers ) so that when you find a much cheaper unit you think is a great opportunity, when it is not.

[@bretts7694]

I honestly can't believe the prices of these new cards. I didn't think it would be this bad. I'll hang on to my 2080 super hybrid that I got open box from Microcenter in early 2020 for $600.

[@SyCannon]

I picked up my 2080 for 500 bucks on the used market about 3 years ago. Year after year I realize I absolutely got a deal compared to the MSRP’s Nvidia is setting. They’re absolutely gouging the market and I hope the consumers really wise up and quit buying these cards at these insane prices.

[@michael.petraeus]

Do you ever watch the news?

[@TowDow3]

funny story. late 2021 i got a 3060 for over 700....about a month ago i got a 3090....for about 760. speaking to gpu prices.

[@slipperybiscuits4864]

2080S is still a great card. Mine is holding up well and with current gpu prices being as atrocious as they are I don't see myself upgrading for years.

[@firestuka8850]

I managed to get a 3070ti at $549 around half a year ago and thats working. No need for me to upgrade at all for a while. Rtx 3000 and rx 6000 are pretty good cards. Hell , waiting for a year or so would be good. Make nVidia sweat bullets snd get proper priced cards. Anyone else who may be strapped, had a gpu conk out on them, etc, I feel bad for em. I just hope people don't have a need to buy anything and can wait. Prices are dumb. Maybe next launch they will wake up a bit and do a better job on sane marketing