I Can’t Believe Nvidia Made This…
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I Can’t Believe Nvidia Made This…
So today reviews went live of the RTX 4070 Ti Super; yes, a silly name, but overall a decent improvement on the original RTX 4070 Ti, which was the same roughly; honestly too high $800, but a little slower and sporting 4GB less VRAM, at just 12, but believe it or not this GPU is a far cry from the graphics card we could have gotten if things had played out just a little bit differently
Yes, in an alternate hellscape reality Nvidia had plans for an entirely different graphics card based on the RTX 4070 Ti that many watching this have probably completely forgotten about, but pepperidge farms remembers, and that GPU was the RTX 4080 12GB.
Now Nvidia seems to have done everything possible to push this thing under the rug, so in case you have forgotten, according to tech powerup this GPU was identical to the RTX 4070 Ti in every way except for price.
Now personally I thought the RTX 4070 Ti price was already awful, but believe it or not, the 4080 12GB was even worse, coming in at an astoundingly absurd roughly $900.
Now if that doesn’t sound insulting, your probably the type of guy who’s been seeing the same mechanic that keeps changing your car’s ball bearings each month and leaving a tip, but for me I think the naming was the worst part, sure the price was definitely bad, but to call it a 4080 is absolutely absurd, because remember the RTX 3080 was cut down from the RTX 3090 GPU die and was sporting a 320 bit bus, whereas theis “RTX 4080 12GB” was cut down from a GPU Nvidia would normally use for a 70 class card except it gets even worse, because they used just a 192bit bus, which is something you might expect to see on maybe a 60 class card.
In fact the last GPU that used a 192bit bus was the RTX 3060, which need I remind you was about $330 upon release. So to call the RTX 4080 12GB more of a 60 class card, honestly wouldn't be too far of a reach, and thus we saw a 60 class configuration increase in price by nearly 3X in just one generation.
Now to be fair the 4080 12GB and 4070 Ti do have far more performance, and other features which make them worth much more, and despite the 192bit bus personally I would classify them more as a 70 class card, but even if we are to throw away past GPU comparisons and simply look at how bad the 4080 12GB would have been in today’s market, I think this’ll help highlight not only how insane Nvidia was for thinking they could get away with that graphics card, but also that the 4070 Ti also sucked.
For example take a look at this RTX 4070 Ti Super review from Techspot. As you can see despite the upgrade to 16GB, in terms of actual performance and cost per frame it’s really not that much better, at least for now where most games run fine on 12GB.
However if we are to insert the RTX 4080 12GB you can see that this GPU would have been the second worst current gen GPU to be released in terms of cost per frame making the already bad 4070 Ti even worse. Not an easy feat.
Now I think there’s two different ways to look at this graph. You can either compare what Nvidia wanted the 4070 Ti to be to vs what we have now with the 4070 Ti Super, and come to the conclusion that they were out of their minds, but the value still isn’t that good, or what I believe is the more accurate comparison would be to compare it to the regular non Ti, RTX 4070 Super.
Sure the 4070 Super is a bit slower, but other than a few less shaders this GPU is essentially identical to what the 4080 12GB would have been including the same amount of memory, but the biggest difference is the price. The 4070 Super comes in at $600 which is a massive $300 lower than what the 4070 Ti would have originally launched at, named as the 4080 12GB, and is giving near identical performance.
Sources
RTX 4080 12GB Specs: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4080-12-gb.c3932
RTX 4070 Ti Specs: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4070-ti.c3950
RTX 4070 Ti Super Specs: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super.c4187
RTX 4070 Super Specs: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4070-super.c4186
RTX 3060 Specs: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3060-12-gb.c3682
RTX 4070 Ti Super Review: https://www.techspot.com/review/2793-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super/
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