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DonnellM

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DonnellMYesterday 11:45 AM

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Is this an improvement from 3060 12gb?

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chadt3534

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chadt3534Yesterday 04:03 PM

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Supers are pretty much announced, i would wait. All have more and better memory configurations.

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Quote from DonnellM

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Is this an improvement from 3060 12gb?

Easily 70+% faster. The problem is 12 GB of VRAM will be limiting going forward. I don't know if I'd buy a card with less than 16 GB at this point if I was spending >$500.

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andybear2

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andybear2Yesterday 04:20 PM

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Is 2% off worth the price?

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Quote from andybear2

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Is 2% off worth the price?

I would say no. 12gb for more than $500 is just bad in 2025. Also if the rumors are to be believed, supers will come out next month at the same price points with vram increases and the 5070 will get an unofficial $50 price cut to $499

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rumor has the super will use the 3G memory modules instead of 2G (so 18G for 5070 Super and 24G for 5070 Ti super, along with 15% performance boost), for the same MSRP, 550 and 750.

given that people has little issue buying the card at MSRP nowadays, I would just wait for the super to be released at this moment.

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antechnet

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antechnetYesterday 05:31 PM

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Get this: the market price for GDDR6 VRAM is $2.60 per GB. It would cost Nvidia no more than $10.40 to add 4GB VRAM to these cards. Let that sink in.

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coolcuteYesterday 05:37 PM

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pretty sure supper is better in many ways, that's why we keep seeing these deal now

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LordDrol

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Quote from antechnet

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Get this: the market price for GDDR6 VRAM is $2.60 per GB. It would cost Nvidia no more than $10.40 to add 4GB VRAM to these cards. Let that sink in.

The 5070 uses GDDR7, not GDDR6. They don't seem to be bandwidth constrained so maybe swapping to GDDR6 or GDDR6X would have been helpful. But at least GDDR7 will allow them to hit 18 GB with the same number of modules (6) on a 192-bit bus.

Nvidia did make a budget Blackwell card with GDDR6: the RTX 5050 8 GB. If there were any savings, they didn't pass it along to the consumer, setting the MSRP just $50 below the far better RTX 5060.

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Quote from DonnellM

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Is this an improvement from 3060 12gb?

its pretty much RTX 3090 with half the VRAM and new 4x frame gen in supported game.

Last edited by Jaggsta September 9, 2025 at 03:23 PM.

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