RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU?

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RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU?
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They're beating AMD at ray tracing, upsampling (DLSS vs FSR), VR, and especially streaming (NVENC). For the latter look at the newly announced beta partnership with Twitch and OBS which will bring higher quality transcoding and easier setup only for Nvidia for now and soon AV1 encoding only for Nvidia (at first anyway).

The raw performance is mostly there for AMD with the exception of RT, and FSR has gotten better. But Nvidia is doing Nvidia shit and using the software ecosystem to entrench themselves despite the insane pricing.

And they beat AMD in efficiency! I'm (not) surprised that people ignore this important aspect which matters in noise, heat and power usage.

Toms Hardware did a test, Rx 6800 is leader there. Next, RTX 3070, is 4.3% worse. Are their newer cards more efficient than AMD's newer cards?

They seem to be but honestly, this generation hasn't been very impressive for both team green and red. I got a 6950 XT last year and seeing all these new releases has only proven that I made a good investment.

Nothing compelling enough for me to hop off of a titan Xp yet. (Bought a titan because it was cheaper than a 1070 at the time because of scalpers)

30 series maybe.

40 series power usage Nvidia destroys AMD.

The 4070 uses WAY less than a 3070... It's 200 (220 for supera) that's nearly more than my 1070 170w

Streaming performance is really good on AMD cards, IME. Upscaling is honestly close and getting closer.

I dont think better RT performance is worth the big premium or annoyances nvidia cards bring. Doubly so on Linux.

And AI. They're beating the pants off AMD at AI.

True enough. I was thinking more of the gaming use case. But even beyond AI and just a general compute workload they're beating the pants off AMD with CUDA as well.