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Does this hold water? Because Nvidia fanboys buy this thinking it'll be worth the upgrade from their 4070 only to realize $550+ for >10% uplift isn't worth it. Gone are the days of 30%+ gen over gen improvements.
NVIDIA has shifted to a model of smaller uplifts and higher prices per tier.
Result: they get stuck paying $550+ for what’s essentially a sidegrade with slightly better efficiency.
Yes, the logic is sound. The 70-series no longer guarantees the big uplift it once did, and NVIDIA leans on marketing + naming to sell what are really incremental upgrades. The “fanboys” criticism comes from people who notice the shift and think buyers are rewarding NVIDIA for shrinking generational progress.
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this is a comment referancing the nvidia gpu can you make sense of it? But the naming stack shifted down. This "70" series is really a "60" series. So no the inflation argument doesn't work because these cards have been cut down from their predecessors.
The commenter means NVIDIA rebranded lower-tier GPUs with higher-tier names (a 70 that performs like a 60), so price increases aren’t just inflation—they’re also a result of NVIDIA shifting the product stack to make you pay more for less.
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adminSep 2, 7:57 AMIn older generations (e.g. RTX 2000 / 3000):
The x70 cards (like 2070, 3070) were solidly upper-midrange.
The x60 cards (2060, 3060) were the more mainstream midrange.
In the current generation (RTX 4000 and 5000 series), NVIDIA has been cutting down specs (fewer cores, less memory bandwidth, sometimes smaller dies) while keeping the higher model number.
Example: the 4070 is closer in performance and hardware specs to what used to be a 3060 Ti / 2060 Super tier, not the old 70-class.
So, people argue the 4070 ≈ old 3060/2060 Ti, not a true 70-series successor.
The x70 cards (like 2070, 3070) were solidly upper-midrange.
The x60 cards (2060, 3060) were the more mainstream midrange.
In the current generation (RTX 4000 and 5000 series), NVIDIA has been cutting down specs (fewer cores, less memory bandwidth, sometimes smaller dies) while keeping the higher model number.
Example: the 4070 is closer in performance and hardware specs to what used to be a 3060 Ti / 2060 Super tier, not the old 70-class.
So, people argue the 4070 ≈ old 3060/2060 Ti, not a true 70-series successor.
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