Claim that NVIDIA's 'RTX 40 series' and AMD's 'RX 7000 series' are hot, expensive and the worst generation



NVIDIA announced the '

RTX 40 series ' in September 2022, and AMD announced the ' RX 7000 series ' in November 2022. At the time of writing this article, both series have everything from flagship products to mid-range products. TechRadar, an overseas media outlet, published an article titled ``Although the current generation of graphics boards have been released, they are almost like garbage'' and talks about their dissatisfaction with both series.

This graphics card generation is over and it was mostly trash | TechRadar
https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/this-graphics-card-generation-is-over-and-it-was-mostly-trash

◆ Severe fever
The RTX 4090, the flagship product of the RTX 40 series, is a high-performance GPU that emphasizes its support for 8K gaming. As a result of actually verifying the performance of the RTX 4090-equipped graphic board at the GIGAZINE editorial department, it showed overwhelming performance in a variety of applications such as 'games', 'video editing', 'AI image generation', and 'mining'.

I checked the performance of the huge graphics card 'TUF-RTX4090-24G-GAMING' equipped with GeForce RTX 4090 & 24GB VRAM - GIGAZINE



TechRadar also rates the processing performance of the RTX 4090 as 'without a doubt the best on the planet,' but on the other hand, 'NVIDIA has chosen to increase power consumption to increase performance while AMD is hotly chasing in terms of performance. 'I did,' he pointed out. In fact, the power consumption of the RTX 4090 reference model is set to a very high value of 450W.



TechRadar claims that the RTX 4090's power consumption is too high, generating too much heat to cool it down, causing

the connector melting problem . NVIDIA explains that the RTX 4090's connector melting problem is caused by 'incomplete cable insertion,' but TechRadar says, 'Based on the fact that other models in the RTX 40 series have not had connector melting problems. NVIDIA's explanation is interesting.''

NVIDIA warns of GeForce RTX 4090's connector melting problem, ``Make sure it is inserted completely'' - GIGAZINE



◆Too expensive
A graphic board that uses RTX 4080, which has the second highest performance in the RTX 40 series, is sold at a price of around 200,000 yen at the time of article creation. TechRadar points out that NVIDIA has failed in pricing, saying, ``If you spend a few tens of thousands of yen more, you can buy a graphics board equipped with RTX 4090, which is a flagship product.''



Graphic boards using the RX 7900 XTX, the flagship product of the RX 7000 series, are sold at a price of less than 200,000 yen at the time of article creation. TechRadar evaluates the pricing of the RX 7000 series as ``doing better than the RTX 40 series,'' but complains that there are too many models and the models are not differentiated from each other.



◆VRAM capacity is too small
High-resolution gaming such as 4K and AI-related tasks consume a lot of VRAM, so users want a larger capacity of VRAM. The RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 have 12GB of VRAM, the RTX 4060 Ti has 8GB or 16GB, and the RTX 4060 has 8GB, but TechRadar points out that ``the VRAM capacity is too small for the performance required.'' Masu.

◆Slight performance improvement compared to previous generation
According to TechRadar, without upscaling technologies such as DLSS 3 and FSR 3, the RTX 40 series and RX 7000 series would only have a 10-15% performance improvement compared to the previous generation. Regarding this, TechRadar expressed a certain understanding that ``the performance improvements obtained by increasing transistor density are reaching their physical limits, and it is not NVIDIA or AMD's responsibility,'' but added, ``We hope that a small performance improvement will be ``the fastest in history''. !' may be technically correct, but it leaves a bad impression on users.''

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