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[LordCBH]

How is this not considered a form of false advertising? It’s clearly a different product marketed as being the same thing.

 

[adamosmaki]

So let me get this straight. This "mid range" gpu is no faster than my now almost 3 year old rx5600xt for a higher price? We're actually going backwards

 

[winjer]

How is this not considered a form of false advertising? It’s clearly a different product marketed as being the same thing.

Because it says 8GB and 12GB on the respective boxes.
But yes, it's still scummy to have so different products with the same base name.
They could have used 3050 Ti. Or even 3060 LE. As not to confuse consumers.

 

[lukilladog]

Because it says 8GB and 12GB on the respective boxes.
But yes, it's still scummy to have so different products with the same base name.
They could have used 3050 Ti. Or even 3060 LE. As not to confuse consumers.

You can have less memory and the same or more memory bandwidth, this is no excuse.

 

[twilo99]

So let me get this straight. This "mid range" gpu is no faster than my now almost 3 year old rx5600xt for a higher price? We're actually going backwards

Fascinating.

It does have more features tho.

 

[winjer]

You can have less memory and the same or more memory bandwidth, this is no excuse.

Not on this case.

 

[lukilladog]

Not on this case.

Certainly if they wanted to.

 

[Crayon]

That's the nature of the demand for their stuff. They have like 80% marketshare so theyy can do what they want. And no it's not amd's job to make nvidia lower their prices. If anything nvidia brings amd prices up since amd has to give you better prices to even hold their sliver of the pie and still make a (likely) handsome margin on the 7900.

People don't even know the ryzen company make gpu's lol. They can't do anything to force nvidia's pricing. Customers can, in theory. In reality seems like they can't tho. edit: actually, the recent alleged bad 4080 sales show that maybe consumers can do it.

 

[adamsapple]

Wow, this sounds like the kind of thing that leads to class action lawsuits..

 

[winjer]

Certainly if they wanted to.

The RTX 3060 has a 192 bit bus. That means 6 memory channels.
So they can either have 6 or 12GB, depending on the chip density.

 

[lukilladog]

The RTX 3060 has a 192 bit bus. That means 6 memory channels.
So they can either have 6 or 12GB, depending on the chip density.

There are multiple ways to achieve 3060 class of performance on 8gb without even using the existing 3060 chip.

 

[Roni]

As a 3050 owner, this obviously should have been their 3050ti and priced a good 20% lower at least. Just like the 3050 should be priced at actual MSRP and not the +$50 to +$100 that it's actually been selling for.

Seriously it's like the last couple years of shitty availability have conditioned the market to fuck us even when the cards are easily available now.

gotta stop buying, only solution

 

[winjer]

There are multiple ways to achieve 3060 class of performance on 8gb without even using the existing 3060 chip.

They can only use 128 bits bus, which is what they did. Or use a 256 bit bus, which would be a bit too much for such a weak GPU.

 

[lukilladog]

They can only use 128 bits bus, which is what they did. Or use a 256 bit bus, which would be a bit too much for such a weak GPU.

256 bit with slower memory would have been fine.

 

[winjer]

256 bit with slower memory would have been fine.

But that would require a new chip. Bigger to accommodate the bigger bus, thus more expensive.

 

[The Pleasure]

I would buy this in a heartbeat just because I liked to be fucked.

 

[lukilladog]

But that would require a new chip. Bigger to accommodate the bigger bus, thus more expensive.

At least it would be ethical.

 

[winjer]

At least it would be ethical.

But nvidia already has a 3060.
What they don't have is a 3050 Ti. And this should be it. If nvidia was ethical.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

"Ethical"

 

[lukilladog]

But nvidia already has a 3060.
What they don't have is a 3050 Ti. And this should be it. If nvidia was ethical.

Even as an entry level ti, it would have been pretty bad, Jen Hsun is losing his mind I swear.

https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_1050_and_1050_ti_gaming_x_review,12.html

 

[Celcius]

Time for gamers to get nvidia to unlaunch another product

 

[//DEVIL//]

This is a scam and nvidia is shady as fuck. They need to get sued for this.

This is not an 8 gb vs 12 VRAM only, this is misleading as it assumes it’s giving you the option to pick 8 gb if you don’t need 12. But the fact there is big as 20% performance difference, that’s just a lie .
I hope they get sued and lose lots of money.

Someone needs to put this shitty company and its CEO in their place. ….

Lol kidding. However,

why Apple, sell many variants of their MacBook ? Different variants and different SKUs under the same exact name? Nvidia can do the same but it has have the specs listed on the box in terms of specs. If they don’t then they are screwed in a big lawsuit

 

[Panajev2001a]

It's that time again, Time for folk to buy AMD RDNA3 Nvidia RTX 403060 when released instead.

Oh whoa what a punishment .

 

[Majukun]

Because it says 8GB and 12GB on the respective boxes.
But yes, it's still scummy to have so different products with the same base name.
They could have used 3050 Ti. Or even 3060 LE. As not to confuse consumers.

eh, still the difference in ram is not the only difference, if you see a box of cereals, one chocolate flavor and another cinnamon flavor, you would not expect the cinnamon one actually being cinnamon flavor sawdust.

sure, names of graphic cards are arbitrary, but there might be ground for a lawsuit

of course given corporate america, they will side with nvidia..maybe the UEW could do something if someone points them to it