Nvidia’s new slower RTX 4070 arriving without a price drop, says leak
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The first of a new wave of RTX 4070 V2 graphics cards has been spotted and despite having slower memory, they haven't had a discount.

They will never voluntarily lower the price of something. They will keep the price the same as long as people continue buying them.

It’s not called a discount when you get a lower tier product

Is there a significant impact on performance? It’s entirely possible that the RAM was overspecced before.

If still expect a discount for worse parts.

It’s not worse if it doesn’t perform any differently. Besides, you don’t actually know the BOM cost.

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If it was overspecced before, then that means it was using parts more expensive than it needed to. Nobody makes RAM that is slower and also more expensive for the same capacity. Logically, this should translate to lowered prices for the GPUs using the cheaper parts.

For all we know, they used overspecced RAM because it was what was available in the quantities needed, or they got a good price from the supplier - which is something that has specifically happened with hardware I’ve worked on before. Again, we don’t actually know the specific pricing details. Higher speed does not inherently mean higher cost.

But think of Nvidia’s shareholders! /s

Honestly NVIDIA shareholders don’t give a shit about the discrete GPU market as long as NVIDIA is able to overcharge the datacenters and reek of insane profits.

Unfortunately, the crypto boom normalised those prices and now there is no turning back.

It’s objectively worse. “Real world performance” might be the same, but I’m paying for performance AND parts.

You’re not paying for the discrete parts. You’re not gonna desolder that RAM and use it for something else.

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No but I am paying for the accumulation of those parts no? Otherwise I’m not buying hardware.

And we know shoe on the other foot, if there was no performance increase, but a fancy marketing label, they’d be all over increasing the price for it.

You’re paying for the overall performance of the product, not for specs of each discrete component by itself.

Yes, you also pay for whatever they decide is relevant to marketing.

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How is buying hardware based on specs not doing both?

To that end, that’s like saying apple doesn’t need to offer higher base specs on things like ssds and internal storage because the performance is the same.

This is Nvidia we’re talking about. Lowered prices isn’t a tactic in those scumbags’ wheelhouse

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