The way he describes hanging on to a 2080ti suggests he's gone through several iterations of getting his moneys worth out of GPU generations before moving on. So I guess he maybe started with a 680GTX as a foetus?I bet he/she won't get it
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At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?
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I was thinking you picked 11 on purpose due to the card GB as he wrote it was 19GB
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Now you're taking me back!
I still remember going around to my mate flat one evening and buying my TI 4600
(This mate runs his own computer shop over here)
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I stopped buying top range gpu. I now buy one that allows me duel screen at the lowest price and then I pay a subscription to gforce now. £20 a month for a. GeForce RTX 4080 4K HDR equals 3.5 years to get to the level price of a card.
By then it is out of date.
By then it is out of date.
but you get to own a physical 4080 at the end of 3.5 years and get the resale value from it...rather than have SFA to show for that £1000 or so?
It means I don't need high spec hw., less power consumed lower bills. it would take 5 years to buy the 5080 card based on subscription fees.
Then the upgrade cost moving from 5080 to 6080 then 7080 over 5 years period. Compared to the subscription value of the updated newer cards.
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Whenever people say this, it always makes me laugh. Probably save you 20 quid a year fella!
It all adds up in the end.
2042...
When i havent time I just cancel my sub and restart it again. Frames are always good etc.. i even used an old pc, which is great, i can log on from anywhere and have a quick game.
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I suppose if you're practicing that with lots of other things in your life, then it does add up.
But in the case of this single thing the card, if it is indeed a 20 quid saving over a year, could be less, could be more, that'd be 60-80 quid over the lifetime of the card. That's not so impressive to me.
But if it's part of a group of similar savings, then as a well known overpriced supermarket would say, every little helps..
Bingo,
MSRP phrase is now just fanciful lip service to the public customers. Much the same way that gambling companies pay lip service to problem gambling.
It's all show but in reality it's not something that AMD or NVIDIA care about. They know if they just go full pelt on actual "real life" pricing, from the start, people would not buy. If they use a mythical MSRP number and throw a couple of hundred units at that price, then they can say the card is cheaper than what it really is in real life purchasing. Giving unfounded hope to buyers that they can get a card £100+ cheaper somewhere, at some time.
It's all smoke and mirrors to try and deflect from the absurd pricing of cards now.
You'd spend 80+ on a single night out anyway. Less power savings is just another way they try to deflect from the purchase cost...."Quick, look over here" type stuff
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I agree. Both companies have welcomed the sky rocketing of their GPU prices in the last 10 years - both in the desktop and data centre markets.
The biggest catalyst of all recent events was the 3080 for "£700" (or whatever the MSRP was) and the pandemic. People have been going beyond bat **** crazy for GPUs since. AMD and NVIDIA have no qualms with this at all. There is plenty of market demand for both of them to make an absolute killing over and over.
I don't think I'll ever be able to justify more than £750 on a graphics card (again), when you consider the expense of the other quality components.
Pre-Pandemic, I'd have laughed hard at paying more than £500 for a GPU as I've always been a bang for buck gamer.
Sad fact is the last few generations the best bang for buck has sat roughly with those £500-£750 cards.
Pre-Pandemic, I'd have laughed hard at paying more than £500 for a GPU as I've always been a bang for buck gamer.
Sad fact is the last few generations the best bang for buck has sat roughly with those £500-£750 cards.
They set a reasonable MSRP price to garner good reviews then people decide they want one based on the good review only to find the real price is a couple of 100 quid more, it’s a bait and switch and marketed on fomo.
That's all well and good, but without a physical 4080, how are you going to get the full ownership experience, of burning down your house with the 12VHPWR connector
There's only so much you can do with streaming
overclock it.That's all well and good, but without a physical 4080, how are you going to get the full ownership experience, of burning down your house with the 12VHPWR connector
There's only so much you can do with streaming
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£100