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A recent report surfaced suggesting that NVIDIA had canceled plans for an even higher-end 40 series graphics card.
Theill-fated RTX 4090 Ti, it seems, will not be seeing the light of day.
It’s big, it’s power hungry and it’s more than enough.
We don’t need it.
Gamers don’t need it.
What I want, not just from NVIDIA, is better, more affordable graphics cards.
It’s big, it’s power hungry and it’s more than enough.
It doesn’t always have to be a case of ‘numbers go brrrrr’ along with the price.
Let’s get some perspective back into things.
Almost every PC gamer on the planet doesn’t need one right now.
Let alone somethingeven more powerful.
Very, very impressive.
But it’s also absurdly expensive, comically large, and quite power-hungry.
Aspirational vs value.
No game currently available makes it break much of a sweat, even with ray tracing on.
There were some games I played on the RTX 4090 that didn’t even make the fans spin up.
That’s how much of a beast it is.
Commitment to attractive pricing is one reason I’ve backed Intel with my own money.
With the RTX 4090, you only have brute force, so the message is lost.
But for the majority, the RTX 4090 is at best aspirational.
An RTX 4090 Ti isn’t what we need.
But that message remains, as I’ve previously written about.
I’m clearly not alone, either.
It’s not an RTX 4090 (or even an RTX 4080.)
The RTX 4090 is close behind with a 0.02% deficit.
But the top positions are all held by either budget-focused GPUs or higher-tier last-generation products.
Most of NVIDIA’s range is priced too high.
I remember getting the GTX 1080 Ti, the biggest and baddest at the time, for under 700.
Compare that to the current market.
The race to the top only benefits the few.
It’s time to think more about the many.
