Nvidia launched three new GeForce GPUs at CES 2024: the RTX 4080 Super, the 4070 Ti Super, and the 4070 Super. The 4070 Super was under-specced in its slides, but it is actually better than it was presented.
AMD's Radeon division only revealed a new 16GB variant of the RX 7600, which it has misleadingly named as 7600 XT. The card does not feature more Stream processors/compute units, just higher clocks.
AMD's worst launch recently was the 6500 XT, which was revealed two years ago at CES 2022. The GPU was launched for $199 and lacked AV1 decode and had no encoder either. It only had four PCI Express (PCIe) lanes (x4), which meant it struggled to perform well on anything that was not PCIe Gen4. AMD later launched an 8GB variant to mitigate the issues but it has rarely been seen in the wild.
The 6500 XT 4GB struggles to perform well in modern AAA titles.
Nvidia is soon going to release a 6GB variant of the RTX 3050. It will have 10% fewer CUDA cores (2340 vs 2560) and 33% less bandwidth (168 vs 224 GB/s) as a result of the reduced memory interface (96-bit vs 128-bit).
The 8GB 3050 is around 30-35% faster than the 6500 XT in rasterization and twice as fast at ray tracing (on PCIe 4.0). The upcoming 3050 6Gig should be fairly close in performance to the AMD card and the 3050 6GB should perform better on a PCIe 3.0 board since the Nvidia card is supposed to be PCIe x8. In addition to that, the upcoming entry-level GeForce GPU will have AV1 decoding as well as encoders.
The TGP of the upcoming entry-level GeForce GPU is apparently 70W, which means no PCIe power connector may be necessary.
And the TGP also apparently comes down to 70W which means no PCIe power connector may be necessary.
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