Graphics 22/23 GPU Thread - RTX4000 AND RX7000 Series

IFTFY

 

AMD saw the tiny gains the 4070 Super Tie delivered and said hold my single digit improvements:

 

Of late, I became very tempted by an upgrade to my graphics card. Seeing some of the reviews of the new Nvidia cards doing the rounds however, I think I may well just skip this generation - both AMD and Nvidia - altogether and wait for the next.

I might change my mind when FFVII Rebirth or Horizon: Forbidden West launch on PC, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

 

The review NDA on the 4080 Super cards has been extended until tomorrow (Retail launch day).
https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-4080-super-reviews-rescheduled-to-january-31st

 

Because that always means good things, right?

 

Apparently, Nvidia are blaming courier services for delayed deliveries to reviewers.
That's what they're saying in the article, anyway.

 

Seems legit.

I'm mean it's not like it'll be barely any faster than the vanilla 4080 and NVidia don't want to give people time to digest a bunch of "meh" reviews instead of buying immediately.

That would never happen.

 

Leaving this here, specifically for @Vault-Tec
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/msi-geforce-rtx-4080-super-expert/

 

What do you mean? GN Steve is postively overflowing with enthusiasm for it...



It's not a 'waste of sand'... that's high praise from GN...

 

I do like the look of that design

 

I'd shout out "called it", but a fence post could've predicted that

 

Hmm. Bit expensive, but we will see. It's the performance I find surprising and a bit disappointing tbh.

 

Agreed. It does seem to have a market-leading amount of meh.

 

The only thing I’ve found interesting about the 4080S launch is that there is now a genuine 2-slot card being offered (Inno3D 3X). Which means a lot more scope for powerful SFF builds without as much jiggery-pokery.

 

Jiggery is OK, but I draw the line at actual pokery!

 

They have continued the trend of farcically long extensions beyond the edge of the PCIe bracket, though. At least they have an excuse, having made the card thinner.

I'll happily support them anyway, though, given that they make among the smallest versions of the other 40 series cards.

 

Still not seeing anything that makes me want to upgrade from a 1080... Any card that is a proper upgrade won't fit in my case either.

 

Aye, I'm in the same boat with a 1080 Ti, only game it struggles with is Alan Wake 2 because it's too old to support mesh shaders. Doesn't make sense to me to spend £500+ for one game!

 

Same. I still have the ME trilogy to play on pc that the 1080 will still run at 1440p.

Cyberpunk and Starfield are my next pc games that will need a GPU upgrade but I'm still a newish owner of a PS5 Slim and the speed, or slowness, that I go through games (as I thoroughly play them to death and beyond) hopefully means an acceptable priced GPU will max them out when I get to it.

 

Interesting you've all said that. Perhaps surprisingly, the little 'un's paired 670s handle everything asked of them at 1080p with the exceptions we've found of No Man's Sky (frames too low) and Guardians/anything else that HAS to have DX12.

Clearly that's a reflection of what is actually played on them, but you'd be surprised. Looking at second hand 3060 Tis ~£150-180 and just waiting for the right one. My 980 Tis are also fine for my uses at the mo.