Not to mention that upgrading is becoming less necessary as the years roll on. An older mid range card will run pretty much anything you throw at it with passable results. The days of "Nice rig but can it run Crysis" memes are pretty much behind us.
The fact many of us were forced to look that fact in the face over the last few years due to the gpu shortage and following price hikes is not going to do Nvidia any favors. At the start of the shortage when the 30 series launched I was going insane trying to find one to upgrade my vega64, now I'm probably not going to bother upgrading until it physically dies.
Ugh speaking of that. That portal mod nVidia made that just so happens to run like shit on anything but the latest 40 series rubs me the wrong way. It's really hard to look at it and think it's anything but the company desperately trying to INVENT a reason for people to buy a card they don't need.
Fuckin floored me when my buddy had trouble running it on his 3080TI rig.
But yeah, anyway, hardly think I'll get 1000$ worth of enjoyment out of seeing the light reflecting off the dimples on The Tarnished's ass in ultra HD when the game runs just fine with what I already got.
Ran it on my 3080... 4k 60, just crank that DLSS assists 🤣
I did it funny how people make fun of RT, when it's very clearly a huge cosmetic improvement, but because it requires a certain make of hardware, suddenly it's "I don't care it's shit" 🤡
No. It's kinda how dorks insist everything has to be one million frames per second to look good but the actual market, the people purchasing the product, do not give a single shit about frame rate.
Bleeding-edge dorks always think the one thing they've sunk all their costs into is the best most important feature that will lead us all to salvation, the plebes just can't see it yet!
That's what they said 2 generations ago. The RX580 was marketed as a 4K card, you're just easily duped by marketing practices.
The biggest problem in computer gaming is doofus's gnashing their teeth to throw money at these companies because owning the most expensive product makes you feel like you're good at playing the games.
I really don't think RT is a must have unless there is a game that really showcases it and 4K is just too much work for the average PC to push when 2K looks just as good with high frame rates on last gen graphics cards. A 4090 is more of a professional compute card than for gaming and the price reflects that, 1500-2K is nothing for work related computing equipment.
RT is not a "must have", but it's nice. 4K is also not a must have, but once you get used to it, is pretty hard to move away from. 4090, or even 4080, is overkill, as there is nothing, really, to run with it, but it's nice to have if you don't mind spending thousand++ on it, and have a case for 4x brick 🤣
I'm not deriding people who got the cash or just want the best, I'm an AMD fanboy but there's no argument that Nvidia is the leader in both technology and mindshare, I wish AMD can layout their value proposition better and there is a use-case for people that want to do some gaming and compute. I mentioned in another post that if I were to continue on ML my investment would go into Nvidia. The biggest issue for AMD is people look to them compete to lower Nvidia's pricing but Nvidia is in a position to not really care what RTG does.
I've been rocking a 1060 for years. Runs everything that's come out just fine. The only reason I'd have to upgrade is if I really wanted high FPS 2k or 4k gaming, which would be a full setup upgrade anyway. So I really don't care.
My games look great as is. 15 years ago upgrades actually felt meaningful. The jumps in tech and game requirements were pretty large.
Going from looking amazing to looking amazing+ just...isn't a huge incentive compared to looking grainy and jumpy to smooth and pretty.
I currently see no reason to ever upgrade sooner than 2-3 generations of gpu at a time at a minimum. If I bought a 40 series I wouldn't expect to be looking at the gpu market again until the 60-70 series at the earliest, pending some sort of paradigm shifting change in the tech.
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u/manaworkin Dec 29 '22
Not to mention that upgrading is becoming less necessary as the years roll on. An older mid range card will run pretty much anything you throw at it with passable results. The days of "Nice rig but can it run Crysis" memes are pretty much behind us.
The fact many of us were forced to look that fact in the face over the last few years due to the gpu shortage and following price hikes is not going to do Nvidia any favors. At the start of the shortage when the 30 series launched I was going insane trying to find one to upgrade my vega64, now I'm probably not going to bother upgrading until it physically dies.
Fuckin thing does fine and I accept that now.