Krizby:

Probably some jebait moment because Nvidia knew something about upcoming rx7000 price/perf LOL

Undying:

Or they knew how bad the card was and how people would rip it appart in the reviews.

Slikar:

Now they gonna release the same chip and name it 4070 but have the same price which would suck even more than naming it a 4080. Or maybe just maybe they lower the price as well for this chip

fredgml7:

Maybe price cutting is the next step. If people don't buy I would bet on that.

CPC_RedDawn:

All this talk of RDNA3 being weak is seriously weird to me. The 6900XT had 5120 cores and the 3090 had 10496. Sure the architectures are totally different but AMD still managed to near match/beat the 3090 in general raster performance with this architecture. 7900XT is rumoured to be around the 12288 cores. This is OVER DOUBLE that of the 6900XT. Now factor in other architecture changes (mcm), clock speed increases. 6900XT could already hit 2.6GHz easily. So 3GHz+ isn't out of the question on the 7900XT. Now go to the 4090 with 16k cores which is nowhere near double that of the 3090. Factor in architecture changes, and more importantly the huge clockspeed increases and insane power draws its easy to see where the 40 series gets its performance from. Unless something majorly went wrong in the RDNA3 developement, given the current rumoured specs it would be extremely surprising to see them not at least match the 4090 in raster performance. RT performance is another story but with the MCM design maybe AMD will use more of the die space for RT enhancements. DLSS3 with its frame generation is I think where Nvidia could really pull ahead of AMD.

JamesSneed:

I have leaked photos of the new card:

Dazz:

The 4080 12Gb was too gimped to be in the 4080 stack, reduce memory bandwidth, reduced cores, reduce RT cores, reduce tensor cores, reduce cache, and for what? cards nVidia are already selling but with without DLSS3 which has it's own problems and is something i would not use anyway because the latency hit is too much.

Undying:

I think this decision is ultimately bad for us. I would rather see them rename it to 4070/4070ti than cancel it. Now we ended up with 1200$ 4080 and 1600$ 4090 so 40 series are out of reach for most people.

mackintosh:

I'm assuming they're just going to rebadge it and relaunch it as a 4070, or keep it for a 4070Ti later.

Dragam1337:

Well, it doesn't always translate between architectures, as you know. The 2080 ti has 4352 cores, where as the 3090 has 10496 cores... however, 3090 is "only" about 70% faster, where as from what i've tested, my 4090 strix is 85% faster than my 3090 strix, despite only having 60% more cores. 7900XT might end up having faster rastarization performance than 4090, but im just saying that you can't conclude it based on the specs alone. And fyi, the 4090 doesn't actually have crazy power draw - my 4090 strix draws less power than my 3090 strix 🙂