I agree. 3nm would be expensive; 4N(P) or any other version is merely an improvement on 5nm by a few percent. Therefore, I think the worst-case scenarios predicting a 5070Ti MSRP of $900 or more won’t materialize. Nvidia’s approach with the SUPER variants has been fairly reasonable, and this is their latest launch.
Nvidia will want to convince even 4xxx owners to buy new GPUs, and just DLSS4 won’t be enough for that.
- The 256-bit memory bus remains unchanged.
- GDDR7 isn’t significantly more expensive compared to GDDR6X.
- That’s why I believe Nvidia will improve the price/performance ratio generationally. It doesn’t make sense to me that they would offer the 5070Ti with performance comparable to the 4080 SUPER + DLSS4 at the original price of the 4080 SUPER.
However, the situation is different for the 5090. It’s not even worth speculating about – Nvidia can do whatever they want there, knowing they will at least sell the product to people building rigs for LocalLLaMA and others.
I’m an optimist in this regard. I know most people predict crazy prices just because 'It’s Nvidia,' but I found their last SUPER launch to be good and rational.