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

After the 980 Ti - £600 was already LUDICROUS for a GPU. (And I was that idiot who bought two for SLI) That's right, two top of the range cards with an awesome generational improvement for £1200.

The market was rigged, I bought a 5090 because it's what I wanted for 4K gaming (to actually enjoy it), it's the first time I have touched Nvidia since the 980Ti, people talk a lot about the 10 series but did nobody notice the FIFTY PERCENT PRICE increase from the 980Ti to 1080Ti? LOL The last somewhat passable price for the top end card was the 980Ti in my personal opinion.

It's 2025, 5090 is worth £800.

Not to say I'm not absolutely loving it heck BIG GRIN on my face playing BUT, £2150 - nah .... £800.

And yes I'm sadly very aware most people hate my opinions, on, um, most things, in general.
 
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Anooshorseville said:
After the 980 Ti - £600 was already LUDICROUS for a GPU. (And I was that idiot who bought two for SLI) That's right, two top of the range cards with an awesome generational improvement for £1200.

The market was rigged, I bought a 5090 because it's what I wanted for 4K gaming (to actually enjoy it), it's the first time I have touched Nvidia since the 980Ti, people talk a lot about the 10 series but did nobody notice the FIFTY PERCENT PRICE increase from the 980Ti to 1080Ti? LOL The last somewhat passable price for the top end card was the 980Ti in my personal opinion.

It's 2025, 5090 is worth £800.

Not to say I'm not absolutely loving it heck BIG GRIN on my face playing BUT, £2150 - nah .... £800.

And yes I'm sadly very aware most people hate my opinions, on, um, most things, in general.
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The 1080ti was £650 for basic models and £900 for over priced oc ones.
 
AWPC said:
DLSS 3.5 - 4 saves you a fortune :p
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Absolutely! My 3070 on a 4930k is netting me 80 to 110 fps on Zero Dawn Remastered so can't complain at that!

I'm seriously considering a 5070 or one of the new super cards in the next year or so if I can keep my 4930k 12 year old setup going a bit longer. :D

Edit: At 1440p as well and my 4930k is overclocked to 4.5ghz turbo.
 
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I honestly don't understand the mentality of people comparing prices from years ago to now? It's no different from house prices or anything else? So where do you draw the line? You cant change it, inflation will never cease.
Jobs pay better now, even the minimum wage is what awell paid job once paid per hour?
A £500 GPU from 20 years ago would be a grand in todays money adjusted for inflation, if not probably more?
I don't see the big deal? Do people think we're going to continue to be paid more, but keep prices from X amount of years ago?
 
deviation said:
I honestly don't understand the mentality of people comparing prices from years ago to now? It's no different from house prices or anything else? So where do you draw the line? You cant change it, inflation will never cease.
Jobs pay better now, even the minimum wage is what awell paid job once paid per hour?
A £500 GPU from 20 years ago would be a grand in todays money adjusted for inflation, if not probably more?
I don't see the big deal? Do people think we're going to continue to be paid more, but keep prices from X amount of years ago?
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When most other computer parts have not skyrocketed like GPU's have, its a joke.
 
MyBrainz said:
When most other computer parts have not skyrocketed like GPU's have, its a joke.
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Really? Like what?
CPU's are hundreds of pounds? Motherboards are stupidly expensive for the 'featureset' you don't get, considering half the time it's only them purposely holding back to make you buy say an X series board to gain something new like PCI-E 5.0 NVME, USB4 ports or the ability to run multiple NVME's at full speed, of which should be the standard given the technology is available?
Cases, fan's, NVME's and PSU's can cost crazy money now?
The only thing that is reasonably priced is AIO's when compared to the laughable price of some air coolers.
 
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I paid £518 for a 3900X not so many years ago, 9900X can be had for £350 right now (was £335 elsewhere just 2 months ago).. RAM is cheap, SSD's are pretty cheap. Motherboards last a long time these days, my last one (MSI Carbon X470 WIFI) has been put in a second PC I put together and going into 8 years of service now.

GPU's complex? Maybe make versions for gaming only (Rasterization) like they made the LHR versions so miners didnt buy them.

I dont use any FSR, FG etc with my 9070 and it runs great.
 
Nemiyen said:
Absolutely! My 3070 on a 4930k is netting me 80 to 110 fps on Zero Dawn Remastered so can't complain at that!

I'm seriously considering a 5070 or one of the new super cards in the next year or so if I can keep my 4930k 12 year old setup going a bit longer. :D

Edit: At 1440p as well and my 4930k is overclocked to 4.5ghz turbo.
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Exactly its pointless chasing 4K perfect IQ on a £2K GPU when DLSS 3.5-4 produces almost identical IQ on a GPU costing well under £500!

Love them or hate them Nvidia's DLSS AI is game changing its sinking AMD GPU consumer sales (their drivers are poor but their hardware is passable).
 
MyBrainz said:
I paid £518 for a 3900X not so many years ago, 9900X can be had for £350 right now (was £335 elsewhere just 2 months ago).. RAM is cheap, SSD's are pretty cheap. Motherboards last a long time these days, my last one (MSI Carbon X470 WIFI) has been put in a second PC I put together and going into 8 years of service now.

GPU's complex? Maybe make versions for gaming only (Rasterization) like they made the LHR versions so miners didnt buy them.

I dont use any FSR, FG etc with my 9070 and it runs great.
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£518 is a ridiculous price for a CPU, so you're contradicting yourself. We never paid that years ago when all these GPU's were cheaper? So that proves my point.
SSD's are not cheap for the amount of storage we paid for HDD's with the same or higher storage, and SSD's are hardly new tech... So again, nope!
Motherboards and 2nd hand hardware have always had the ability to be used as a second machine, so that means nothing.

I haven't mentioned anything about GPU's being complex? That was @Calin Banc

As for the 9070, at what res, and settings? Hardly impressive if you say 1080P/1440P, as that's old hat now, considering how long we've had 4K for.
Which again goes against the point of this thread, which is to belittle current hardware and it's capability versus price? Despite the fact that whatever era, we could never max out the current AAA games, I swear people have selective memories...
Unless you're playing at triple figures 4K max settings, which you're not, then by this thread and your mindset, you are still being ripped off for the price of 'modern GPU's' :rolleyes:

Paying 2-3K for a component to play games on, will always be a luxury and silly, just like it was when we were paid half or less the wage we are today, 20 years ago, and bought 9800XT's etc...
You could say the same about the price of modern cars now versus 20 years ago, or house prices in the 70's and 80's, so what? We get paid more, it's all relative.
 
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I never quoted you :rolleyes:

I'm just saying what the internet is saying and if you want to pay to play 4K then thats on you, more than half of gamers still game at 1080p.. enough said.
 
MyBrainz said:
I never quoted you :rolleyes:

I'm just saying what the internet is saying and if you want to pay to play 4K then thats on you, more than half of gamers still game at 1080p.. enough said.
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Ah fair enough, I just wondered why you replied to mine in the same reply. But fair enough :)

The idea of buying a brand new GPU that isn't 4K max settings capable, to pair with what was a very expensive CPU, seems equally as mad to me. But you you were happy to spend £518 on a 3900X, so this is an ongoing theme wiht you.
At that point, you could have bought a PS5/Series X and gamepass or bought many games, and had just as good of an experience.
If you really cared about the price of things today.

Each to their own though, but if that's your mindset towards being ripped off, then it seems crazy to slate a GPU's price, yet buy expensive CPU's with zero bitterness, as they're equally both expensive in their own right/product class? So it goes both ways. Then add the cost of all the components, bar ram, that aren't cheap.

I would totally understand if only the GPU was expensive versus the rest of the hardware required to use it, but that's simply not true, and waiting for things to be older/2nd hand, isn't a factor in this, as you could wait for a GPU price to lower - I'm saying this in general, BTW, so it's not a dig ;)
 
deviation said:
Ah fair enough, I just wondered why you replied to mine in the same reply. But fair enough :)

The idea of buying a brand new GPU that isn't 4K max settings capable, to pair with what was a very expensive CPU, seems equally as mad to me. But you you were happy to spend £518 on a 3900X, so this is an ongoing theme wiht you.
At that point, you could have bought a PS5/Series X and gamepass or bought many games, and had just as good of an experience.
If you really cared about the price of things today.

Each to their own though, but if that's your mindset towards being ripped off, then it seems crazy to slate a GPU's price, yet buy expensive CPU's with zero bitterness, as they're equally both expensive in their own right/product class? So it goes both ways. Then add the cost of all the components, bar ram, that aren't cheap.

I would totally understand if only the GPU was expensive versus the rest of the hardware required to use it, but that's simply not true, and waiting for things to be older/2nd hand, isn't a factor in this, as you could wait for a GPU price to lower - I'm saying this in general, BTW, so it's not a dig ;)
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Well you cant do video encoding with a console.. but keep going.
 
Just spent £499 on a 5070, and pretty sure it'll be fine for my needs.

I had a 4070 previously which was £589 (£620 in today's money inflation adjusted).

Prior to that was a 2070 which was 600 EUR (£688 in UK money, inflation adjusted).

I am that bang average 70-series customer apparently :P

I think on paper the 5070 is reasonable enough value and I'm quite happy leaning on frame gen for the games I play. Obviously it's not a 4090 but seems decent enough value.
 
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