Nvidia is new RTX 4070 Ti GPU has sold more than both high-end AMD RNA 3 Graphics cards combined, according to some new sales statistics.
When VideoCardz (opens in new tab) discovered, sales figures from German retailer MindFactory were posted on Twitter by TechEpiphany (which regularly publishes statistics from this major outlet), showing what happened in the third week of 2023.
And it was a big win for Nvidia in terms of current-gen models, as the RTX 4070 Ti sold 545 units. That was more than that RX7900XTX and 7900 XT combined who have shifted 300 and 200 units respectively (500 total). Notably, the 4070 Ti was also the best-selling single GPU of any model from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia.
🔥 Graphics cards retail sales week 3 (mf)AMD: 1665 units, 42.26%, ASP: 656 (euro)Nvidia: 2255, 57.23%, ASP: 807Intel: 20, 0.51%, ASP: 270AMD sales: 1,092 .951, 37.46% NVIDIA: 1,819,085, 62.35% Intel: 5,396, 0.18% #AMD #Intel #Radeon #NvidiaGeForce #IntelGraphics #Nvidia pic.twitter.com/LE7FWLUNdNJanuary 21, 2023
If you add the RTX 4080 sales to Nvidia’s tally – that GPU managed 190 units – you end up with 735 units for Team Green versus 500 units for Team Red, a pretty clear win even without the grand total for those RTX4090 (which sold 210 units, and that would put Nvidia not far from 1,000 Lovelace GPUs sold for the week).
Interestingly, the second-best graphics card was also an Nvidia offering, the RTX 3060, which was not far behind the 4070 Ti and sold 485 units.
In third place was AMD’s top-selling RX 6700 XT, which hit an impressive 410 units this week.
What about Intel? Well, Team Blue was well behind the two big GPU manufacturers, with the Arc A770 and A380 only bringing together 10 units apiece (which puts them in 21st place with a bunch of other cards, many of which are very dated, like the Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti and the GT 730).
Analysis: The price is right – or at least a little more than the alternatives?
This is an interesting snapshot of the current graphic card Sales but we have to remember that these are numbers from a single retailer so just a small sample of the overall market. So let’s not get carried away, but it’s clearly very interesting to see how the RTX 4070 Ti pulls out the combined totals of its two RDNA 3 competitors.
There are probably several reasons for this. Firstly, at its MSRP (recommended price), the RTX 4070 Ti hit the nail on the head (instead of being inflated). And second, that MSRP is tastier than any other current-gen graphics card (which, of course, are all high-end models). The RX 7900 XT costs almost $100 (circa £80 / AU$145) more for MSRP – in fact, it’s just over €30 (circa $33 / £26 / AU$47) more at MindFactory, at least for now At the time of writing, although the gap in the week these figures were compiled for may have been larger.
Seemingly, if you want a truly powerful graphics card, it’s as simple as the fact that the RTX 4070 Ti offers RTX 3090-level performance DLSS 3 for increasing supported games and lower power consumption – that’s about the best there is right now. You’ll still pay through the nose for that privilege, but not quite as much as with the other current-gen options on the table. (And last-gen cards remain expensive, too, even the RTX 3080 is currently just 13% cheaper than the 4070 Ti at MindFactory).
The smart call for now might perhaps be to wait for the RTX 4070 to show itself. This GPU could soon be going through the rumor milland perhaps with Lovelace (relatively speaking – maybe we should call it) we’re finally getting a glimpse of reasonably affordable prices reasonably affordablemaybe, although some speculation suggests Nvidia is going heavier with the price tag than we’d like).
