Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Everybody’s getting ripped off…”.
Uh scalpers are apparently struggling to sell the RTX 4080 above MSRP, but retailers won’t let them return the cards uh. The original article here is from Tech spot and there’s not a whole lot else to say about this other than you’re wrecked yeah. I think that I think that’s about it and in other news, this uh, this one’s pretty funny Hardware unboxed, released a review of a new version of the RTX 3060 that is evidently dramatically underperforming compared to the previous RTX 3060. um. I have not actually watched the video yet.
Unfortunately, this was brought to my attention shortly before the show started, but if the thumbnail is anything to go by, we are looking at 26 lower performance in spite of the very similar name. It’S a very it’s a very on topic, video for me right now, because we actually just shot like that was what I was shooting right before wancho we shot a video about why low end gpus are terrible in a complete and utter waste of money. Again, this is our third crack at this video. Hopefully we’re gon na we’re gon na we’re gon na get this point across the finish line and nobody will buy them anymore and the world will be a better place uh for having less manufactured E-Waste in it. But one of the points that we make in that video is how both of these companies AMD and Nvidia have such such misleading product numbering schemes. One of the things we bring up is the use of the same number to denote cards that have very different performance characteristics.
But even if and this is, I think, one of the most important points we make in the video, even if they are using their numbering schemes as prescribed um they’re, going about it with a very fast and loose approach that makes it really difficult for the average Consumer to understand what exactly it is they’re buying. So the example we use is actually from the 10 Series, so the 1000 class cards, where the 1070 has roughly 80 percent of the performance 80 to 85 percent of the performance of a 1080.. The 1060 has roughly 70 percent of the performance of a 1070., but then things get really spicy. The 1050 Falls to just half the performance of the 1060.
and the 1030. There is no 1040. The 1030 is half of that again. So when you, when you compare the differences in relative performance and how they get so wide towards the bottom end, with the differences in pricing which are wide at the top end, you basically look at it and you go holy crap.
These things are they’re downright predatory. There they are like you’re and they have been forever yeah forever um, and so we lay out, we lay out actually three different alternatives to buying a low end, GPU and all three are valid, and it has nothing to do the number of people that think that, Like when I, when I say this, it has something to do with like shaming people for not having money. No, it’s not no he’s in a different way.
It’S not about that at all. It’S to help! You not waste your money like honestly, who would I be talking to when I, when I say, don’t, buy low-end gpus, I’m not talking to affluent people, I’m talking to people who actually need to get the absolute most out of their money. That’S the whole point.
The reason why this was effectively one of the First videos we made is we used to be in that situation, yeah and we’d, see like friends or or okay yeah yeah, like back when I wanted to play Civ 2. I bought like a piece of crap gpus of two tests of time or whatever it was. I think it was less of a huge problem. Then, when um, it was more about like feature set support and like 3D was not really uh like high-end gpus were not really a thing yet, but I absolutely got ripped off on like a 9600 SE or something like that, which was one of those cards that Was the same number but severely cut down compared to what it was supposed to be it it’s? It should be utterly unacceptable.
Yeah, yep, yeah, no, the RX 570 was not a low end GPU far. Now that would be like a performance like mainstream performance class. Cart. In terms of like the way that uh, the manufacturers would categorize it, so you’ve got your like, like Halo products, which are like your 90 class, your Titan class XTX, like that sort of thing um, then you’ve got your Enthusiast class, which is so named because nobody Actually needs that.
That’S why they’re just enthusiastic so I’m sure I’ll take your money. Uh then you’ve got your like performance like your gaming class cards and then you’ve got your budget cards. .