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 3…