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At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?
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That's the state of the market now, £550 doesn't get you much in the new market, it's crazy
Well eBay pricing for a start, secondly the 5080 is a up tiered 5070 and not on performance parity with a 4090 leaving it the only thing between a 5080 and 5090.
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As the prices go up I just skip more generations between purchases. There's no point in whining about the market forces that cause all this, they are what they are.
Part of this is that nothing remains stable forever, we've had a good run in computing with Moore's Law allowing is to have expectations of tight refresh cycles where we see 2x the compute power constantly. As sad as is is, eventually it will change and we'll have to change our expectations with it.
I've been in the hardware game for 30 years since I was a kid, and so it's hard for me to accept that fact. But as it sinks in I begin to realise how much of a privilage it was to live during an era where this all took off and we got such rapid explosive growth constantly. We'll look back on that in 30 years and feel like a-holes for just expecting it, with zero justification.
Part of this is that nothing remains stable forever, we've had a good run in computing with Moore's Law allowing is to have expectations of tight refresh cycles where we see 2x the compute power constantly. As sad as is is, eventually it will change and we'll have to change our expectations with it.
I've been in the hardware game for 30 years since I was a kid, and so it's hard for me to accept that fact. But as it sinks in I begin to realise how much of a privilage it was to live during an era where this all took off and we got such rapid explosive growth constantly. We'll look back on that in 30 years and feel like a-holes for just expecting it, with zero justification.
And then we have CEOs of dev companies like Randy P. saying their game is very optimised, DLSS+FG is what should be always used to get 60FPS, their game is made for premium gamers with premium hardware only, plus this fresh golden quote: "And, I have been led to believe that in a blind test that humans cannot detect any input lag.". If this is the level of knowledge and gaslighting of leadership of AAA dev studios, no wonder we get unoptimized UE5 slops and no amount of monies from gamers' side of things will be able to handle it.
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The moment the phrase "I have been led to believe" is used it's code for "Speaking out of my backside".
It's not even good code. At best it suggests unchecked facts regurgitated by a gullible individual, or (most likely) a legally covered way of repeating an untruth.
It's not even good code. At best it suggests unchecked facts regurgitated by a gullible individual, or (most likely) a legally covered way of repeating an untruth.
Or in short words, corporate gaslighting of unhappy customers.