Are you saying the 4070ti is a "shitty card"?
How, exactly, can it be "amazing" but also be "mid range" and "shitty"?
because it is practically a 3080 rehash that is sold at 800 bucks. it is a shitty card.
normall times it went like this
980 beast card = 1060 run off the mill upper midrange card (lowend just 1 years later) that should give you subpar expectations with lower graphical settings and uncertain framerates (playable but not great), S and comes near the "980ti" performance at a 250 bucks price
1080 a legendary beast = 2060 just your average whack mid range gpu. matches or beats the 1080 performance at 320 bucks. a super lowend gpu by the end of 2019
2080 stronk =/= 3060 just your average whack low end gpu. barely matches the 2070 performance at 329 bucks
3080 stronk =/= 4060.. CANNOT even beat the 3060ti reliably. falls below 3060 in vram gimped scenarios.
4070 and 4070ti are
TRUE 4060 cards in disguise. which has broken pricing.
1060 and 2060 cards were midrange-ish AND amazing cards. they were not shitty because they were sold at meaningful prices and people flocked to them.
this trend started with 3060 being a lackluster card. and continued on with 4060.
the naming scheme is the problem. people expect too much out of 3080 tier hardware, which WAS... a high end card 3 YEARS ago. it should be midrange now. AS WHAT HAPPENED WITH 980, 1080 and 3080.
PEOPLE... expect huge things out of the 4070 4070ti, purely because of its name and its price. it has wrong price tag and wrong product name.
starfield does not include the gimmicky dlss3 unless you mod it. and without dlss3, the shortcomings of these so called "4000" cards quickly become exposed. people don't understand they practically got no meaningful rasterization improvements from them.
RTX 3080 is at a point where it should run games at 1440p/med-high mixed settings with 40-60 FPS (because it started off as a 4K card).
GTX 1080 started as a 1440p ultra 60 FPS card, and just 2 years later, it was a 1080p med high 60 FPS card (in 2018). NO ONE COMPLAINED, because you could get GTX 1080 performance with a RTX 2060 at super cheap prices. RTX 2060 was touted as a 1080p med high 60 FPS card. and matched the 1080.
GTX 980 started as a 1080p ultra 60 FPS card, and 2 years later, it was a 1080p medium 45-50 FPS card (in 2016). NO ONE COMPLAINED, because you could get GTX 980 performance with a GTX 1060 at super cheap prices. GTX 1060 was touted as 1080p med 45-50 FPS card and matched or beat the 980.
Do you see the trend?
If this trend continued,
RTX 4060 would've rendered 1440p med high 45-60 FPS, and no one would complain. and everyone would've said 3080 aged and even a lowly 4060 matches it.
now, 4070 4070ti matches the 3080. so they go down with the 3080. but this time, there's no 4060 to speak of. 4060 is even more horrible.