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At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?

£670 is the most I have paid for a GPU and that was a 1080ti, altho lets say £800 because i bought a waterblock for it too.

I thought that was a stupid amount to spend on a GPU but it actually turned out to be a bargain for how long it lasted me and it was a damn good card.

I'd spend that again but it would have to be a GPU I deemed worth that price, the artist formally known as the 5070 now called the 5080 certainly isn't worth £800 in my opinion despite the stupid prices they are selling for.

I think the 9070xt is the only potential option for me to go to from my current 6800xt, tho that will be depending on perf and if they decide to take the **** or not on price, can happily just not bother and spend my money on something else.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Surely it depends on what you earn. A £1000 GPU for somebody earning £25k per year is completely different to somebody earning £75k per year or £100k per etc.
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Not just earnings but outgoings.

If you're living at home, working and living your best life then you might have more to spend on a GPU

If you've already worked for 30+ years, paid off your mortgage and car then you might have more to spend on a GPU

Crunch is in the middle where you have car payments, mortgage, childcare payments and very little cash for hobbies.
 
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I set my self a limit about 3 years ago to £300, thinking if i upgrade i'm going to be needing to up that to £500?
 
Sparky said:
Is there a mental limit you have set in your head that you refuse to go over?
Personally I think £2k is already crazy money for a GPU but my needs are different to some of you guys obviously.
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I stopped a fair while ago. Best GPU in the house is a 3060 in a laptop. Has to be 3 yrs old. Prefer to go on holiday tbh.
 
Paid £570 for my Evga 3080 in 2021 and that was the most I’ve paid. I doubt I will spend more for my next one, I don’t really game much anymore anyway. I’ll probably look Amd or drop back down to the 70 series when I next look to upgrade.
 
McPhee said:
I'm still using a 3070m, which is pretty close to the 3060 Ti in performance terms. I think you're playing the performance of that card down TBH. I play at 3440x1440 and still manage a mix of medium and high settings in recent releases.

The 9070 could be interesting to me if the pricing is right. Performance is likely an +80%-100% improvement. Anything less than that isn't really worth the bother as I'd need to build a whole new rig.
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Thanks mate that's great to know if I decide to move up to 1440 as that upgrade has been tempting.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Surely it depends on what you earn. A £1000 GPU for somebody earning £25k per year is completely different to somebody earning £75k per year or £100k per etc.
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To an extent. But principals still apply.

Affordability isn't the only factor as I alluded to in an earlier post.
 
Sparky said:
Is there a mental limit you have set in your head that you refuse to go over?
Personally I think £2k is already crazy money for a GPU but my needs are different to some of you guys obviously.
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Like others I guess, the 2024 Apple Mac Mini + Geforce NOW Ultimate subscription basically meant the end of the 5k rig for me.

It also meant the end of noise, large home space requirements and the beginnging of total portability.

I think we have reached the peak sales of decrete GPU's for gaming, we may have even passed it.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Surely it depends on what you earn. A £1000 GPU for somebody earning £25k per year is completely different to somebody earning £75k per year or £100k per etc.
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I would add age here as well. Younger people on good salaries tend to throw monies away on toys easily. Older folk, even if earning well, tend to put it away as investment for the retirement time (seems I'm in that category now). Retired folk can finally use that money again and might spend it on hobbies as everyone else already paid and not much else to do.
 
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Awesome post !!!! NEEDS DISCUSSING !!

In this day & age the absolute top price I'd ever pay for an extreme 5090 class card should be £999, and thats 'realistic but pushing it' pricing.

I can only discuss cards that exist, & what I'd realistically pay for them - I can easily afford a £2500 5090 if I wanted, but hell no, its not worth that.

I will only buy these cards for the following price:

5090 - £999
4090 - £800
5080 - £699
5070TI (16gb) - £550ish
7900XTX - £500ish

I currently have 6800XT which thankfully got faster and faster to exceed 3900 performance. But I paid for it during the great GPU shortage during mining in 2020 (notice there is always some sort of 'extreme event' or something happening to push up costs? and if there isnt they just create artificial short supply - its evil), so yeah my 6800XT was extremely expensive - but it was a strange time of lockdowns, world shake ups & great personal loss, so I wasn't in a good frame of mind & ended up gaming tons, so I coughed up £900ish for one at the time.

Today, I will only upgrade to the above GPU's when the 2nd hand market drops to the above pricing.
 
I think principles apply here as others have mentioned. They charge what they charge for the cards because they can. It really is that simple and there is little competition at the high tiers and AMD have made it obvious they don't want to compete at that tier. What is probably more likely to happen is Nvidia will stop making cards at the top tier because there is less of a market and just make the mid tier the new top tier. You won't know that the top tier is gone because it will never get made.

Lets face it, nvidia could probably make a better gaming card but I suspect they want to keep the die capable in the AI space so they don't have to make lots of different dies.

I do wonder how much of the die space on these cards are of limited use or fringe use. I mean are those AI components even used in gaming (Does anyone even know?).

Regardless it is way too high priced and they are getting away with capitalist behaviour and some people are continuing to fuel it. We all lose in the end. Those that can afford it get less value for money and those that can't just get priced out of the market altogether.
 
Aurhinius said:
I think principles apply here as others have mentioned. They charge what they charge for the cards because they can. It really is that simple and there is little competition at the high tiers and AMD have made it obvious they don't want to compete at that tier. What is probably more likely to happen is Nvidia will stop making cards at the top tier because there is less of a market and just make the mid tier the new top tier. You won't know that the top tier is gone because it will never get made.

Lets face it, nvidia could probably make a better gaming card but I suspect they want to keep the die capable in the AI space so they don't have to make lots of different dies.

I do wonder how much of the die space on these cards are of limited use or fringe use. I mean are those AI components even used in gaming (Does anyone even know?).

Regardless it is way too high priced and they are getting away with capitalist behaviour and some people are continuing to fuel it. We all lose in the end. Those that can afford it get less value for money and those that can't just get priced out of the market altogether.
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100% this, as a collective we need to crash the market, which means all not buying a 5090, but unfortunately some people can't help themselves.
 
adidan said:
Not necessarily.

It's all about value and being taken as a mug.
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The original post just said "At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?". It didn't say in the current climate where performance is RUBBISH.

I took that to mean if the performance was there, how much would you spend?
 
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