Nvidia phasing out Turing graphics cards - report

[Jan]

Nvidia retiring four cheap graphics cards — Report

Nvidia is phasing out some of its last-remaining Turing graphics cards, which are among the company's best-value GPUs when it comes to price-to-performance.

That is according to rumours on China's Bobantang tech forums, which were picked up by reputed PC hardware publication Tom's Hardware.

 

[Herr_Koos]

Referencing Userbenchmark as a source again, @Jan ?

Here is the unabridged UB "review" of the RX 6600, just so you can see what caliber of writers you have running that site.

Whilst the drought in the GPU market continues, street prices for AMD cards are around 50% lower than comparable (based on headline average fps figures) Nvidia cards. Many experienced users simply have no interest in buying AMD cards, regardless of price. The combined market share for all of AMD’s RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs amongst PC gamers (Steam stats) is just 2.12% whilst Nvidia’s RTX 2060 alone accounts for 5.03%. AMD’s Neanderthal marketing tactics seem to have come back to haunt them. Their brazen domination of social media platforms including youtube and reddit resulted in millions of users purchasing sub standard products. Experienced gamers know all too well that headline average fps are worthless when they are accompanied with stutters, random crashes, excessive noise and a limited feature set.

Yeah. That's the kind of unbiased quality tech journalism I'm looking for when making a purchasing decision.

As for the average 6% you quoted from the UB "comparison", here is the actual figure from a reputable tech site:

If you don't feel like watching the whole thing, the short version is that the RX6600 is 29% faster then the RTX3050 at 1080p and 23% faster at 1440p, while costing less. Bit of a far cry from 6%, wouldn't you agree?

If this comes across as a rant... It absolutely is. Userbenchmark is a garbage site providing garbage results that should not be used for any meaningful comparison, by anyone, ever.

 

[r4nd0m]

@Jan need to fix title.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

If this comes across as a rant... It absolutely is. Userbenchmark is a garbage site providing garbage results that should not be used for any meaningful comparison, by anyone, ever.

Thanks for ranting for the rest of us

Userbenchmark is a joke and should not be used for any reason whatsoever.

 

[PhireSide]

@Jan need to fix title.

I was wondering what these graphics cards were turning into

 

[longboy]

Userbenchmark is not correct. It listed my system as unable to perform well in 4K.

Ryzen 7 5800X3D @ R7900,
Asus Prime X570-P @ R4000,
Radeon RX 6600XT @ R8000,
2 x 8Gb sticks of Klevv DDR4 4000Mhz @ R1 800

Runs all of my games in 4K at ~70-75 FPS. Not going to upgrade any time soon. Don't trust those benchmarks - it's just a general guideline, and bad at that too.

 

[disiza]

Both the big gun GPU manufacturers are currently on my **** list, both seem to be focusing on the high end GPU's... greedy money grabbers... units that cost 2 kidneys and a liver. What ever happened to the decent medium to entry level cards, they are conveniently disappearing.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Both the big gun GPU manufacturers are currently on my **** list, both seem to be focusing on the high end GPU's... greedy money grabbers... units that cost 2 kidneys and a liver. What ever happened to the decent medium to entry level cards, they are conveniently disappearing.

Coming 2023, the lower-end though is only due in Q2-Q3. Don't expect mouth-watering prices, 2023 is going to be a rough ride or so at least it will be in my view.

 

[Herr_Koos]

Both the big gun GPU manufacturers are currently on my **** list, both seem to be focusing on the high end GPU's... greedy money grabbers... units that cost 2 kidneys and a liver. What ever happened to the decent medium to entry level cards, they are conveniently disappearing.

Prices will come down once sales tank. It's already happening. We just have to hold firm as consumers and not allow them to fleece us.

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