I predict the 9060 XT will be somewhere between 30-50% faster than the 3060 12 GB and short of the 7700 XT (about 60% faster than 3060), but with 16 GB of VRAM and FSR4sure.
It's because devs had to use a hybrid approach off adding RT over raster. Now we're starting to see RT only games and they are resonable(Doom the Dark ages asks for an RTX 2060 for 1080p@60). You sound like every gamer that rages about new tech that becomes standard.
Or he could be someone that misses when GPUs were affordable and not overbuilt space heaters that seemingly exist to cope with Unreal Engine 5 being a dumpster fire.
Don't companies overestimate the PSU wattage needed?
Assuming that the second power consumption chart relates to just the GPU power and not the whole test system power, then those 445W on the 3080 are much more than it's 320W TDP. If the GPU itself can consume those 445W at it's peak when it's apparently rated at 320W, and those PSU recommendations also need to encompass any potential CPU and peripheral combo of all potential systems, then those recommendations have a large safety margin for a reason. Maybe someone wants to pair it with a top end CPU that'll pull a lot of juice as well? Most consumers are idiots, cards like to pull a little more than what's on the spec sheet, people might not understand that CPU's turbo boost TDP is usually what it'll run at so that's what they have to consider and so on and so forth.
lol, 60fps? Are you still in 2012?
This. The transient power draw spikes are the thing. When properly estimated and planned for, everything's fine. Otherwise, you get lots of problems (obviously) of varying seriousness. Best case, your PSU overload protection trips and the PC shuts off. Worst case, things start melting and making the Mysterious Blue Smoke™. We saw a lot of that with the higher end 30- and 40-series nvidia cards for a while because green company was putting out inaccurate information about power transients (underestimating them). Their stupid 12VHPWR connectors are still melting sometimes because the cards are trying to pull more power than those cables can feed without overheating.
Man, more stock of one model, of one card, at one retailer, than there was ever made of RTX 50 as a whole.
I mean if this generation is anything to go by, the 5060 will be priced at exactly the same as the current 4060. And I doubt scalpers will be interested in cards like that with only 8GB of vram. They just aren’t as in demand for most people.
If you don't care about ray-tracing then go buy a 7800 XT or something. The only improvement these cards bring are raytracing.
7800 XT is going for $540 new (US). 9070 XT at MSRP is 42-50% faster (Tom's 1440p/4K raster) for 11% more. The card to compare to is the 7900 XT, which is going for over $600... on the used market.
