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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti review: a next-gen GPU that's worth the asking price?

From Digital Foundry: "The next generation GPUs from Nvidia - and, as it turns out, AMD - have had a problem: pricing, or rather relative pricing. The issue is that with the Radeon RX 6800 XT and more so the GeForce RTX 3080, we've had GPUs that struck an excellent balance between price vs performance. Both were cut down compared to flagship models, but each retained the bulk of their gaming prowess. For whatever reason, their recently released equivalents - RTX 4080 and RX 7900 XT - have not been able to match the same sweetspot in 'frames for the dollar'. The new RTX 4070 Ti goes some way to addressing this, but still hammers home the point that extra performance and big price reductions are things of the past.

That said, the renamed RTX 4080 12GB does finally address the value challenge of the RTX 3080 to a certain extent. With a confirmed MSRP of $799/£799 - $100/£150 up on the RTX 3080 - you are getting value from the extra cash. Performance of the card is typically in RTX 3090 to RTX 3090 Ti territory. You're getting an extra two gigabytes of framebuffer memory. On top of that, there's DLSS 3, which hasn't yet established itself as the game-changer that DLSS 2 is, but is swiftly becoming very useful - game-changingly so in the case of The Witcher 3: Complete Edition."

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Fishy Fingers862d ago (Edited 862d ago )

If you're interested I cant recommend the Gamers Nexus review enough: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

ZycoFox862d ago

Too bad the guy has a bit of an attitude problem. Reminds me a little of the guy who does MLID, arrogant.

TakeTori861d ago

You're getting downvoted, but I agree. He's kinda arrogant. I once wrote a comment on his YouTube video, which he actually responded to. He misunderstood it and gave me a very flippant response. I couldn't in good faith stay subscribed to him after that.

--Onilink--862d ago

While I generally think that GamersNexus is pretty much the gold standard in the PC space for almost everything, one thing I dont like about their GPU reviews is their game selection for benchmarks and limited coverage in them for RT and upscaling , which is understandable to a degree based on the many different configurations, but still feels like they really need to start updating their methodology since both things are really just gonna get even more prevalent.

So while there are definitely aspects that GN goes more in depth, for the actual game performance ans suite of games benchmarked, I kind of prefer the DF reviews

kythlyn862d ago

Hard to consider anything in the 4000 series "worth the asking price" unless you've got money to burn. The 3000 series was priced right at MSRP, but there wasn't enough supply back then to keep them on store shelves (in combination with world events and aftermarket greed). But now there's a plenty of supply and Nvidia decides it's time to charge what the scalpers were asking for the 3000 cards for the 4000s? Forget it. I'll be waiting to see what they do with the 5000s in a year or two and hoping they go back to the 3000 series MSRP tiers.

vTuro24862d ago

The entire 4000 series is one big disgusting scam.

badz149862d ago

none of the newer GPUs from both nVidia and AMD are worth their asking price! if this is going to be the norm, goodbye and RIP budget PC gaming I guess as far as new components are concerned. budget PC gaming will now be relegated only to used parts.

lonewolf10861d ago

Hopefully this will not be the norm, think sales have not been stellar on the new GPU's as they are readily available everywhere unlike the 30 series (at MRP) for example.

moongrim862d ago (Edited 862d ago )

yeah ok, good luck finding that thing at $800🤣😂

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Pure Arts Reveals Borderlands Collectible

Pure Arts Reveals Borderlands Collectible that fans should l8ve.

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89 million Steam account details allegedly leaked, but no one seems to know how

A LinkedIn post from Underdark AI made the discovery, stating that datasets are being sold for over $5,000 on a known black market forum.

Cockney1d 16h ago

Biggest hack in gaming history if true

Christopher1d 14h ago

No personal details, mostly account names, no passwords. Likely would need other account leaks to hope that someone reuses a password with a similar account name on another already leaked service. While a lot of users, the data is useless. Kind of notably by the $5k request for the data.

Profchaos2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

You don't remember the psn hack I take it

BlueDaBaDee10h ago

Update:
"Valve has now confirmed that “this was NOT a breach of Steam systems” and users do not need to change their passwords as a result. However, it continues to recommend that you set up the Steam Mobile authenticator for extra security."

https://store.steampowered....

Fishy Fingers10h ago

Shame. I liked the idea someone paid 5 grand just for my silly steam name.

DivineHand12510h ago

The government needs a taskforce with serious fundung that can opporate across borders to go after cyber criminals.

It is getting out of hand and it is the regular citizens of the world that suffer the consequences of these hacks and breaches.

My fear is that if left unchecked, state sponsored hackers from corrupt or governents under sections may use this as a method of raising revenue at the expense of everyone else.

Fishy Fingers10h ago

Bro teeing up a Mission Impossible movie.

ZeekQuattro8h ago

Not in this administration. If anything hes been dissolving existing task forces meant to protect consumers.

Amplitude6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

Why? They’d just use the funding to funnel hundred of millions of dollars into fake NGOs that then funnel it into democrat pockets while doing zero cyber criminal defence work.

Then if anybody tried to defund them it’d be a whole thing with the mainstream media claiming that there will be endless cyber attacks. NGOs would then fund protest groups to attack anybody that supports defunding the government’s cyber attack defence branch and then it would turn out it was also being used to stabilize or destabilize governments in other countries and overthrow elections to benefit America. Which is fine until they start using it on us again.

Let’s just not. Private companies who know what they’re doing (Valve) can deal with it

RIP USAID. God bless

Profchaos2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

It's not a may use this not we know state sponsored attacks do this already.

It's a global problem you couldn't have one government playing world police it would require joint collaboration with foreign governments and the problem is many laws have not kept pace with advancement of technology.

even then it's hard to say with certainty if an attack was a state sponsored attacks or a cybercriminal group operating outside of governments

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pwnmaster30009h ago

remember when certain groups were saying PC gamers don’t want other subscriptions because it was not safe and steam was the spot lol.

Shiore2u8h ago

No. Don't recall that. You know the voices in your head aren't real right?

pwnmaster30007h ago

I mean you can say that all you want but it’s the truth. Most recent one I saw was a whole bunch of you PC gamers bitching about having a PSN account and one of the arguments was how it’s not secure enough lol.

Shiore2u6h ago

@pwnmaster3000 Real or not it must have really got under your skin to keep talking about it. Why so touchy?

pwnmaster30005h ago

Two comments and I keep talking about it lmao.
Look you must be new to conversations but this is how it goes. You talk to me and I respond back.
Very simple and with practice maybe you would be good to ☺️ cheers mate.

Shiore2u5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

@pwnmaster3000 It's just a question, stop being so touchy.

(hopefully you figure out the irony by now, I can't be anymore obvious with the goading)

pwnmaster30003h ago

What you using the word “touchy”? What about it?
And yes it was a question and I answered. Do you not like getting responses back lol.

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badz1498h ago

it's time to riot, right, pc gamers??

pwnmaster30007h ago

Be careful, PC gamers are the most touchy out of the gamers lol

staticall1h ago

@badz149
@pwnmaster3000
Have you guys actually read what was «leaked»? It was SMS messages from 3rd party provider (not from Steam itself) with one-time 2FA codes (that are active for 15 minutes). No Steam account details, access to an account or any of that jazz.

Let me quote official Steam response:
«The leak consisted of older text messages that included one-time codes that were only valid for 15-minute time frames and the phone numbers they were sent to. The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data. Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account, and whenever a code is used to change your Steam email or password using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Steam secure messages.»
Source: https://store.steampowered....

The only bad thing about this is the phone numbers. But while that sucks, attacker doesn't know which Steam account this phone number belongs to. IMO, the only thing people should be rioting about is how unprotected the SMS are and the 3rd party service that was used by Steam. I'm all for punishing people who screwed up and/or lacked the security. But this is not it.

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Nintendo Switch 2 To Sell 100M+ Units by 2029, Is The Most Important Console Launch Ever, Says DFC

DFC Intelligence has big expectations for the Nintendo Switch 2. They estimate over 100 million units sold by the end of 2029.

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_SilverHawk_13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

dont think itll happen because of COQ. it costs as much as gaming consoles that are way better in a lot of ways and nintendo normally thrives on selling cheaper hardware than the competition. i believe that because the switch 2 and the games are so expensive and are far inferior to better versions available for the same price or cheaper on better gaming consoles that gamers would rather get a better value for their money and buy something better than the switch 2. the switch 2 can do a lot better if it isnt expensive and the games are cheaper.

Muigi13h ago

Yeah but I can’t play my PS5 Pro on a plane or the subway.

Neonridr9h ago

don't worry, they'll tell you to buy a $300 accessory on top of the console so you can "stream" it to play it. (subject to network capabilities of course)

MrNinosan9h ago

@Neonridr
The Playstation Portal is amazing, but if you don't want to spend the 300$, just use your phone or tablet that you probably own already

jznrpg6h ago

@MrNinosan it’s 199$ for Portal

MrNinosan5h ago

@jznrpg
Might be, I just answered to his bullshit comment.
As I live in Sweden, I paid way more for my Portal, around 350$ at release, but still use it daily at work and in my bed, so well invested 👍

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Neonridr9h ago

*costs as much currently.

We've already seen MS have to adjust the price of their consoles, and it's possible Sony could follow suit.

And your definition of "far inferior" is subjective to the end-user. Can I take my PS5 Pro version of the game with me on the go? No.

Dhika2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

Hahaha. We'll see. I'm not keen on seeing you moving goal posts as usual lol.

darthv7213h ago

Pretty ambitious... it could be done so long as they lower the price of the games and the system to something more reasonable.

jznrpg13h ago

Least exciting Nintendo launch for me.

MrNinosan9h ago

First console I won't buy at release since the original NES.

repsahj8h ago

Not me. I am excited as when I first bought my Mario Odyssey bundle Switch 1.

MrNinosan5h ago

Because of Mario Kart?
Or what is it that excites you?

repsahj4h ago

Because of everything Switch 2, I am very impressed with what I am seeing so far. And because 3 of my friends who I play Helldivers 2 with will also get it. We will all be getting the Mario Kart World bundle.

Elda12h ago

For me...I beg to differ it's an important launch knowing it's not launching with any interesting exclusives except the $80 Mario Kart & I'm not into racers. Until I see some interesting Switch 2 exclusives that I think are a must play I can wait as long as possible before obtaining a Switch 2.

Neonridr9h ago

While I'm getting MK at launch, I'm actually most interested in Donkey Kong. I love the destructible environments.

NotoriousWhiz7h ago

I'm most interested in trying out cyberpunk with mouse controls. If they work really well, Switch 2 may be my console of choice for shooters.

MrNinosan5h ago

Couldn't you try that on PC for the last 5+ years?

neutralgamer199211h ago

I’ve seen a lot of people projecting that the Switch 2 will sell over 100 million units by 2029. While I understand the optimism—especially considering the original Switch’s success—I think those numbers might be overlooking the current state of the market and how much it’s shifted.

First off, we need to stop using early sellouts or pre-order hype as a reliable indicator of long-term success. Every major console that’s launched in the last 25 years has sold out during its pre-order window. Even consoles that were ultimately considered commercial disappointments—like the Wii U—sold out at launch. The PS3, which launched at a hefty $600 back in 2007, still had people lining up. That early rush is almost always driven by the core gaming audience, not the mass market. The real test comes after that honeymoon phase, when sales depend on casual gamers and broader adoption.

And that’s where things get trickier now.

The gaming landscape has changed dramatically. Mobile gaming has completely taken over in terms of both revenue and number of players. It’s bigger than console and PC gaming combined, and it's still growing. That makes sense when you think about it: everyone already has a phone, and many have tablets too. Pair that with a Bluetooth controller and you’ve got a portable, high-quality gaming experience with almost no extra cost.

Consoles and gaming PCs, on the other hand, require a substantial investment just to get started. When money is tighter for a lot of households and the average consumer is more price-conscious, it becomes harder to justify spending $400–600+ on a single-use gaming device—especially when they already own something that plays games well enough.

I’m not saying the Switch 2 won’t be successful. Nintendo has a strong brand and a loyal fanbase. But I do think people are underestimating how much harder it is today to move that kind of hardware volume. The market’s more competitive, more fragmented, and more mobile than ever before

Neonridr9h ago

I fully expect the Switch 2 to sell 100M units. But to say it'll do it within 4 years is a big ask.

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