Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Dual 8GB LHR Graphics Card V1. £310.99 @ Box

You tout the EXACT same rubbish every day of your life! These cards cannot be compared. It is patently obvious that you do not, nor have not owned any of these SKUs or you would not sit here quoting such manure every day! In another post you claimed to have the costs of a card to make? Let's have them please, after which, I shall get my Brother In Law to double check, who works in their offices in Dublin. He will have a very good idea! I have a very good idea too, so it would be very very interesting. You take NO account of the Contracts entered into circa 2 years ago when they agree the rates with their suppliers! You have no idea what NVIDIA pay Foxconn for a Founder's Card either, but you preach rubbish picked up willy-nilly from the internet. Please TRY to post a half sensible, helpful post, rather than spending your life trolling here and being UNHELPFUL to others who do not know any better. They come here to get a deal and often advice. You do not provide either or any of the above! Is there not an old bulletin board you can go and troll instead and save us the everyday nonsense and negativity?

For those interested, yes the 3060Ti is a cheap card now at £310, but the 4060Ti is only a few quid more in the scheme of things, or especially in the overall price of our new PC. With frame generation, DLSS 3, it is a good, not great, but enough better than the 3060Ti to make it worthwhile. Sure, if you have a further £200 to spend, go for the 4070, but it is over a 50% uplift for 30% more performance. I have just benched the 4060Ti this minute on a few titles and with Frame Generation, like it or not and DLSS 3, it is putting out 180FPS on High Settings at 2560x1080p, so 1.5 times 1080p. The 3060Ti does not get half that. With Every Ray Tracing Option at high / Ultra, it puts out over 100 FPS. Again, there's not 3060Ti on the planet gets near this.
Our 7600 Stock is arriving today, so be interesting to see what they do, but they will not come anywhere close.

We will always have the 8GB argument, so buyer beware, I suppose, but the developers will all be brought into check by both NVIDIA and AMD in order to get he titles optimised. Console ports where the curent gen machines have up to 16GB to 'play' with is the main culprit, but this will be sorted and with direct storage and game shift becoming more mainstream, AMD cards in particular will be able to shift resources in the same way as they do on the consoles, each based on RDNA 2 architecture and Ryzen CPUs, so this too will not be the 'issue' as the YT shills would purport.

On the price of VRAM, GDDR6 in particular. Yes, it has dropped from the silly heights in mid-2021 (the time these cards were in development and orders were placed for them), but this is the main reason for the prices dropping recently. Remember, VNIDIA and AMD generally sell the GPU AND the RAM as a bundle to the AIB's, so that the standards can be kept, rather than one going to SK Hynix, another to Samsung and another to Micron, for example, so you will find that the Board Partner's' hands are tied in that the bundle they receive is set. They only really have the PCB and power / cooling to play with after that. The point being the price of RAM was a real issue. These cards are months and months old, if not more, so the RAM prices pertaining to then is from a time when prices were higher. It will be interesting to see what they are contracted for, but certainly not the $27 alleged in another of your 'helpful' posts!

So is the 4060Ti a better bet than the 300Ti? I think so on the basis that it offers the new features. On pure rasterization, no, at 15% or so uplift, it is not a game changer, BUT the new features are game changers and they offer the end user more frames for their money. The reason NVIDIA or NGreedia or whatever you wish to call them sell 90% of the GPUs on the planet is for the exact reason that AMD do not. They just aren't good enough. Ramming more vols into a part to overclock it essentially is not the way forward and cost of ownership is a real point these days, so should absolutely be considered.

You go on about money being wasted on the GPU, yet in a post yesterday you suggested we should all run out and buy 64GB of the best DDR5 RAM we can get our hands on. At £250 when you know full sure that this will tumble in price over the next few months? Where is the sense or the reasoning behind this? 99% of gamers at this level will only see a small 5% or so jump from 8GB to the sweet spot of 16Gb and next to nothing from 16 to 32 and again, nothing from 32GB to 64GB, so how or why would you suggest such a thing and in the same breath put a user off buying the VERY MOST IMPORTANT element in their gaming PC, the GPU?

Hard to understand the reasoning behind your advice sometimes and it is unfair to frighten folks as you do. You could quite easily post your real world findings, which would be helpful, else cancel your subscription to YouTube, as you're watching far too much of it. And we all know who spends the money on there with the 'Reviewers / Influencers'? And it isn't NVIDIA, is it?

In the interest of fairness, I run a 6950XT in my own PC, so I am by no means a Team Green Fanboy, just as we will not see any reviews of one versus the other with their real world features enabled, as AMD will be pasted, as they should. They need to raise the game in a hurry. Truth be told, we are close to the end for dedicated GPUs and in the next few years PCs will be sold akin to the min PC's we see today. AMD will take market share, NVidia won't be bothered as they are concentrating elsewhere, so worrying about it all too much won't be of benefit. Buy what you can afford, spend the bulk of your budget on the most important element of your PC, so if you are a gamer, spend it on the GPU, this is where you'll get results and DON'T WASTE MONEY FUTURE-PROOFING (As per you advice from yesterday). I have been doing this for over 30 years and if I had a penny for every time a customer suggested future-proofing, I would be retired already. It never pays off. Ever..

If you have those figures to hand please for the costs of the boards, that would be interesting to see, or will you grab it from the 'net somewhere and regurgitate someone else's nonsense and claim it to be an educated opinion in the same vane as your GPU knowledge?

Help is what's needed here and Deals & advice. There's enough negativity out there. If we want more all we have to do is turn on the telly! Or maybe spend an hour doing the donkey-work and find and post a deal yourself, rather than slating everyone else's efforts? Be a refreshing change?

Yeah, used

lol should be £160?

Bought Founders from Nvidia not very long ago. Forgot how much... But now feeling it was too much thats for sure.

Paid £670 for a 7900xt last month new from a reputable retailer.

£299 will be the next price point, how long to £199 we wonder.