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September of the technology circle this year is very lively. The popularity of the Huawei and Apple annual new product launch conference has not yet passed. Nvidia, which has been silent for two years, released its new RTX 40 series graphics cards, and the first release is three cards, which are still positioned at the high-end ones!
Nvidia has three products for the RTX40 series graphics cards released this time, namely RTX 4090, RTX 4080 16GB, and RTX 4080 12GB. These three graphics cards have been replaced with the new Ada Lovelace core architecture, manufactured from TSMC's 4nm process, with 76 billion transistors and more than 18,000 CUDA cores, which is 70% more than the previous generation Ampere architecture core.
The one who was unveiled last night and was still the well-known Lao Huang. He was still wearing his black leather top that he had collected for many years and still talked about the new card PPT parameters of the show, but it still did not stop the continued decline of the stock price of NVIDIA!
However, the result of this press conference should be expected. Basically, all players are looking forward to this press conference before and disappointed after watching it.
Why do you say so? Because of the merger of Ethereum a few days ago, graphics card mining has no profit. In other words, the previous generation of 30 Series and 60 Series graphics cards on the market will be sold in large quantities. Even if there is no "you, me, 200, flying" scene that everyone calls, at least there should be a significant price drop. But now several days have passed, and those card dealers seem to have discussed it in advance. The graphics card market is still strong and there is almost no loosening.
OK. 5 days later, the new card of Lao Huang will be released! First, various big shows of parameters and configurations were shown, and some so-called new technologies such as AI intelligence were compiled, and some actual game review screens were released to illustrate that this time we are not squeezing toothpaste, but a "big upgrade"!
Let’s not talk about his verbal "explosion" data, as well as many so-called "high-tech" that can’t be beaten by playing games with us, because that’s not the point. The point is that when Lao Huang said the price was right, the 40 Series graphics card would not be good in an instant.
I also touched the 750Ti at hand: Old man, I feel wronged, you have to continue working for two more years!
Back to the topic, let’s take a brief look at the comparison list of the new RTX 40 series graphics cards released last night (the list comes from the Internet):
First, let’s take a look at the comparison of the main parameters of the three graphics cards released yesterday.
Let’s take a look at the comparison between the previous generation of 90-level graphics cards and the new cards.
The previous generation 80-level graphics card and the new card are compared.
Just looking at the parameter comparison makes people speechless! The RTX 4080 12GB graphics card and the RTX 4090 graphics card are actually halfway through the width and bandwidth! According to this situation, how can I play the 4070, 4060, and 4050 that are later released?
Then look at the price, it's even more out of the picture! Prices soared across the board! If the top RTX 4090 graphics card is still expected, compared with the 5499 start price of 3080, then the pricing of the 4080 graphics card is completely intentional and does not want to sell it!
says that "leather-clothed swordsman" has superb swordsmanship, but why did he suddenly become so straightforward this time? Just like he was afraid that his own graphics card would be sold, and 4080 could be set to tens of thousands of yuan, which directly turned away most gamers!
There are two possibilities for this reason: either you are fascinated by "Su Ma" and want to help AMD RX 7000 series graphics cards open up the gaming market, or you just want to clear the inventory of 30 series graphics cards. The answer is actually obvious!
Then, the opportunity came to Su Ma's side. Su Ma also announced that she would release the RX 7000 graphics card on November 3 while Lao Huang released the new generation of RTX 40 series last night.There are not many confirmations at present here. What we can know is that the new A card will use a brand new GPU based on the RDNA3 architecture. Compared with the current RX 6000 graphics card, it will provide more than 50% performance improvement per watt. Is it because I don’t compete for performance and start to compete for energy consumption? ~~
~~ It's PPT promotion again! I believe that with Su Ma's situation and the pricing of RX 6X50 series graphics cards in the first half of this year, AMD should not have any fantasies for gamers! After all, it has many RX 6000 graphics cards.
But my personal prediction should be more conscientious than N card! After all, N card is already so obviously dedicated to A card. I believe A card will definitely not miss the opportunity!
may be because this "mining wave" has been long, and then because many players cannot buy suitable graphics cards, they have lost patience and enthusiasm for PC games. Therefore, the current graphics card market can be said to be a mess.
It can be foreseen that the DIY market in the future may continue to be sluggish. high-end players or demanders may buy the 40 series regardless of the cost, but most game enthusiasts may not even be able to buy a suitable mining card. Since they can't buy it, then don't play it!
Finally return to the title: Which graphics card is worth buying?
In one sentence: Don’t believe in old Huang Su’s mother, believe in Aunt Zhang!
