Whiffle Boy
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2001
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I totally agree, 3080 was the bright spot and i wish more people got their hands on them instead of going into mining rigs. Specifically with ampere though, the 3090 was a complete joke, so was the 3060. (I know first hand, I've owned every iteration of 3080 and up, 10GB, 12GB, ti and 3090) There is always a bright spot, at least in industries where you need to do research because companies don't have your best value interests at heart. (go back to 2xxx series, the whole lineup was debatably garbage)This sound strange to me in many ways
Ampere was not on the weak side at 4k the 3080 was almost 70% stronger than the 2080
Lovelace was not on the weak side either, 4080 about 50% stronger than the 3080 (how can we talk about 4060ti performance, we never saw the 60Ti crush the previous xx80 like that), or at least it is under the 4070ti that it started to get weak, price was the only issue with the 4080.
Now I'm not going to be so naïve as to paint a rainbow care bear picture here, but the point is johhny appleseed goes into his local PC shop with X money, hes essentially rolling the dice on "value". It wasn't always that way, it doesn't need to be that way, the companies in power are choosing to be that way, that's all. Its kind of a lame argument anyway so I'll be happy to drop it, I just dislike underhanded behaviour.