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This might be an unpopular opinion, but is the new RTX 3070 at $499 and RTX 3080 at $699 really such good value? Sure it's being marketed as 70-90% better perf

This might be an unpopular opinion, but is the new RTX 3070 at $499 and RTX 3080 at $699 really such good value? Sure it's being marketed as 70-90% better performance at the same price but the value proposition is mainly in comparison to the Turing generation (20XX series) versus the Pascal generation (10XX series). For example of 3070, Nvidia moved the price anchor for the XX70 series from $379 to $499 so consumers are essentially paying for a XX80 card - and should expect XX80 performance. Nonetheless still impressive for the 70-90% performance gain, just perhaps not as much when price-adjusted. On a separate note, I'm curious about how much of the performance gains is attributable to the node shrink (12nm to 8nm) vs. micro architecture vs. software optimization (e.g. DLSS 2.0 vs. 1.0).

Zenst 6y ago
> really such good value? Depends upon how you measure value. If you can get something better for the same money or a little more, then sure they are good value. Even if you want something not as powerful or new, these will just send all the older card values down, so for that - these are great value. Now if you was a TITAN buying type, the GTX3090 is definitely good value. As for node shrink and how much is it a factor; Would need to factor in clock speeds and memory bandwidth, then need to compare exact comparable features. It's a muddy path. More so with the bigger gotcha that the 12nm node was TMSC and this 8nm node is Samsung, so hard to say, but over the months, reviews will have a good stab at it. Though for me, GamersNexus on YT would be the review I'd be looking for in the weeks ahead.