The (RTX 4060 Ti) was the most disappointing GPU I reviewed this year
The (RTX 4060 Ti) was the most disappointing GPU I reviewed this year
We've seen a ton of new GPUs this year, but there's one card that stands out as the most disappointing GPU of 2023.
I don't know, it's been another year of overpriced GPUs that didn't advance as much as some past generations have.
Overpriced, absolutely, but the 4080 and 4090 absolutely blow previous gens out of the water. Everything else does seem to fall on the side of incremental improvements, but nothing big
Unfortunately, 4090 is the cheap man's alternative for AI hardware, and with the China ban, it's going to continue to be overpriced for the foreseeable future, well past the blockchain mining craze.
128-bit bus... that is pretty bad.
Even the non-TI RTX 3060 had a 192-bit bus and 12 GB of memory. The fact that a lower tier and older product sounds more appealing is a major error in Nvidia's judgment for this generation of budget cards.
I don't understand why they couldn't keep pushing the 3060 until they were truly ready for a 4060 that's better. You don't have to release new products on every single segment every single time. Especially if they confuse the buyers of that segment.
I don’t understand why they couldn’t keep pushing the 3060 until they were truly ready for a 4060 that’s better. You don’t have to release new products on every single segment every single time. Especially if they confuse the buyers of that segment.
I think that's why: confusing those less "hardcore" into thinking 4060 is a massive leap from 3060. It's pure corporate greed and annoying as hell.
IMO the base 3060 is the best price/performance Nvidia card out right now and it's over $100 cheaper than the 4060 Ti.
We seem to have hit a wall with CPU & GPU development, it's not going to be easy to overcome it. My best guess is that future generations are going to have to focus on heat dissipation, because that's basically the only thing left to improve.
I have a spreadsheet tracking all my for-myself builds from 2000. I used to average a new build (or upgrade) every 20 months. (it was my only hobby... I'm pretty boring)
Last 10 years it's been more like every 36 months. But that's after having "the itch" for at least a year.
I'm 40 months into this build, and an upgrade is hardly worth it. Maybe next year when it's been a whole 2 generations CPU/GPU?
Heh... I started building in the late-90's with a custom 486-sx. Went from that to a Pentium 100, then to an AMD-K6-II at 233, then to another AMD I forget... then to an i5-2500K in 2011. That build hit the sweet spot, and with just graphics card, memory and drive upgrades stayed roughly the same until I bought this -7-10700K last year... that's now got 4Tb of nVME and 8tb of SSD, no spinning rust, and a 3070. I would like to upgrade the graphics card as I've got 2x 4K monitors and gaming is a bit sluggish at times on 4K, but... I just can't justify the upgrade price to a graphics card that could improve. So, I'll wait another gen, and probably get either a 4080 when the 5x series is out, or wait until the 5x series 5070-eqivalent is at a reasonable price. Other than increasing storage, I don't see any other demands for CPU or GPU coming this console generation...