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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.
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Did something similar when I went from 2080 to 3080. It was at the time when second hand cards were at crazy prices, got 490 quid for the 2080 and scored a 3080 FE for 649.
Net spend = 159 quid. Never happening again.
£650 on the 3080 FE is the most I've ever spent on a GPU. Got the 4070ti super from ocuk b grade for £500 and sold my 3080 FE for £300, only a 30% performance jump but the extra vram was the main reason for the switch.
Originally was planning for a 5080 as an upgrade but the poor performance jump put me off, thought it would at least beat the 4090. I could've jumped on the 4080/s 2+ years ago for nearly the same price/perf.
Hopefully the 6080 is a beast since it's on a smaller node .
Originally was planning for a 5080 as an upgrade but the poor performance jump put me off, thought it would at least beat the 4090. I could've jumped on the 4080/s 2+ years ago for nearly the same price/perf.
Hopefully the 6080 is a beast since it's on a smaller node .
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In 2020 I spent £530 for my sons 3070 8GB card from OcUK
This week I ordered myself a 5070 Ti 16GB for £750
The first 3D GPU I bought was a 3DfX Voodoo Gen 1 card with 4MB of Ram in 1996 for £160. This had to be used with a 2D card - I had a Matrox Mystique.
Loads of GPU cards since then
In 2002 I remember buying a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 for about £150, which was a mid tier spec card at the time. Putting this into an inflation calculator this would cost about £280 today .
So prices have 5x increased in just over 20 years.
This week I ordered myself a 5070 Ti 16GB for £750
The first 3D GPU I bought was a 3DfX Voodoo Gen 1 card with 4MB of Ram in 1996 for £160. This had to be used with a 2D card - I had a Matrox Mystique.
Loads of GPU cards since then
In 2002 I remember buying a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 for about £150, which was a mid tier spec card at the time. Putting this into an inflation calculator this would cost about £280 today .
So prices have 5x increased in just over 20 years.
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Nice. I had the Voodoo 2 but it worked on the same principle with a pass through.
I want to get back in to gaming again and upgrade my PC. Currently only have a 3200G as it's been an office machine.
When I look in to it, it seems much more reasonable to just buy a PS5 pro if i'm honest. Either that or just purchase a used 1080ti card from CEX or something to tide me by.
When I look in to it, it seems much more reasonable to just buy a PS5 pro if i'm honest. Either that or just purchase a used 1080ti card from CEX or something to tide me by.
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Depends what you're after at 1440p you can get some decent performance for a fair price.
At 4K then it does start to add up.
RTX5060Ti 16GB + DLSS 4 is such a game changer pointless buying anything too expensive! The IQ is almost identical to native resolutions!
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