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Poll: Whose going to get one - 5000 series

Are you purchasing a 5000 Series GPU?

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Just out of curiosity, what we do we all do for a living? Me personally I’m an account manager not a bad wage but I still couldn’t justify £2+k on a GPU alone.. partially because I don’t get time to game as much these days but even if I did I’d rather get a 4090 for less than £1k (which they will be) and go on a nice holiday with the Mrs…
 
Still using a 3080 10GB FE, but I've set aside £1200 (plus what I can sell the 3080 for) so hoping a good Nvidia product, but would be happy to get AMD if Nvidia takes the **** again with their pricing.
 
Tommy_Here said:
Just out of curiosity, what we do we all do for a living? Me personally I’m an account manager not a bad wage but I still couldn’t justify £2+k on a GPU alone.. partially because I don’t get time to game as much these days but even if I did I’d rather get a 4090 for less than £1k (which they will be) and go on a nice holiday with the Mrs…
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Factory worker. Minimum wage. I couldn't really justify spending tons of money on a GPU either, but I inherited some money a while back, so that now helps me out.

I've been happy with my 10 year old PC (i7-6700, 32gb ram, gtx980 etc) over the years but stopped playing games because I've been busy in other areas of my life. The latest ones wouldn't look very nice either - Far Cry 6 was the last game I played, and stuff like RDR2 wouldn't even fit on my rig.

It's now time for a new state of the art PC. Budget is between £4000-5000. Happy to get lost in gaming again. I'll also be using my new PC for editing video, photography. Can't wait to get a bit of help in the forums choosing stuff for it :) I guess I'll be going for the 5080 if that's what it called. I'm hoping for a decent bump up in game quality over my 980 lol.

And Blimey. What a bunch of games I've missed, I'm gonna be like a kid in a candy store, really not sure where to start! I should have been buying stuff in the sales.

Happy Christmas!
 
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GoRedwings19 said:
You think the 5090 or the top end AMD gpu is killing pc gaming?

High end graphics card attribute to less than 2% of the overall market. Most of the market is made up of the 3060ti and 4060 and other budget options.

It being killed by developers wanting to develop for a console where it has one graphics chip and that’s it. Not pc permutations.

Most of developer don’t even have to bother optimising games as they know the PC’s gamer will use dlss/fsr or frame generation.

If we didn’t have that the pc gaming situation would be worse. It got nothing to do with the latest top end cards from either NVIDIA or AMD.

It was already bad enough you in were in the hi fi sub forum spewing nonsensical rubbish. If a card was 25k then you would still not be able to afford just like the other 25k components you recommend in the hi fi forum.
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I am gonna disagree on the developer front, its not the consoles that is killing PC gaming, its PC gamers to which your comment already answered it self, a really really really small segment of PC gamers actually own a GPU more powerful then the PS5.

Peoples pay have barely gone up, but prices have massively and before the pandemic anything above £250 was high end to a lot of people and now its only getting you a GPU worse then previous generations for the same money.

This is the issue, this is whats killing PC gaming because most do not want to spend more then £250 on a single part, and many PC users forget that beyond the inner components, theres everything outside that costs money such as a monitor, a gaming mouse and keyboard and maybe a controller, speakers or headphones as well.

This is before you buy any games and AAA new games on PC cost the same on console and go down in price later then consoles is what I have noticed for the past few years, I have been able to obtain games on the PS5 cheaper then on PC, and no Half Life 2 doesn't count anymore, its old AF.
 
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GoRedwings19 said:
You think the 5090 or the top end AMD gpu is killing pc gaming?

High end graphics card attribute to less than 2% of the overall market. Most of the market is made up of the 3060ti and 4060 and other budget options.
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Does make sense, according to this - Steam players spent only 15% of their total gaming time on 2024 titles. 47% of the time was spent on games released between one to seven years ago. A whopping 37% of the time players spent in games that came out eight years ago or more.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/only-...ime-was-spent-playing-games-released-in-2024/ (Edit: URL link changed in last few days)

I personally use a 3060ti, in 2025 it would realistically take me around 4+ months to save up for a £2,000 GPU, but I'm more inclined to spend on other things instead, so longer really.
 
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Nelly said:
Does make sense, according to this - Steam players spent only 15% of their total gaming time on 2024 titles. 47% of the time was spent on games released between one to seven years ago. A whopping 37% of the time players spent in games that came out eight years ago or more.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/only-...ent-playing-games-released-in-2024/from-2024/

I personally use a 3060ti, in 2025 it would realistically take me around 4+ months to save up for a £2,000 GPU, but I'm more inclined to spend on other things instead, so longer really.
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What people on this forum seem to forget as well, the most popular PC games do not have a Steam version i.e WoW and LoL + Valorant and they do not require beefy hardware to run decently ( though WoW does have decent visuals in its options menu that is GPU taxing ).
 
Raelgun said:
What people on this forum seem to forget as well, the most popular PC games do not have a Steam version i.e WoW and LoL + Valorant and they do not require beefy hardware to run decently ( though WoW does have decent visuals in its options menu that is GPU taxing ).
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I play LoL everyday since season 1 and funnily enough I the game which heats up my cpu the most. The latest Indy game 48c die average. Cyberpunk think it is like 55c and LoL 60c… lulz
 
GoRedwings19 said:
I play LoL everyday since season 1 and funnily enough I the game which heats up my cpu the most. The latest Indy game 48c die average. Cyberpunk think it is like 55c and LoL 60c… lulz
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Anything that actually requires data like LoL and WoW will use the CPU more heavily then cyberpunk, so makes sense.

Its a shame non of the big tech reviewers are actually gamers and would test these games because they really do use certain parts well.
 
Raelgun said:
Anything that actually requires data like LoL and WoW will use the CPU more heavily then cyberpunk, so makes sense.

Its a shame non of the big tech reviewers are actually gamers and would test these games because they really do use certain parts well.
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Reviewers test a mix of modern and popular games. If it's old and unpopular it's unlikely to be tested
 
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Tommy_Here said:
Just out of curiosity, what we do we all do for a living? Me personally I’m an account manager not a bad wage but I still couldn’t justify £2+k on a GPU alone.. partially because I don’t get time to game as much these days but even if I did I’d rather get a 4090 for less than £1k (which they will be) and go on a nice holiday with the Mrs…
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Oracle Fusion Consultant. Got a 4090, see if it sells and go from there.
 
The poll needs an 'It depends' option really. If a 5090 offers a decent uplift to the 4090 (50%+) and is under 2K for a decent AIB i'm absolutely trying to pick one up. If over 2K it'll be a pass for me.
 
J.James said:
Factory worker. Minimum wage. I couldn't really justify spending tons of money on a GPU either, but I inherited some money a while back, so that now helps me out.

I've been happy with my 10 year old PC (i7-6700, 32gb ram, gtx980 etc) over the years but stopped playing games because I've been busy in other areas of my life. The latest ones wouldn't look very nice either - Far Cry 6 was the last game I played, and stuff like RDR2 wouldn't even fit on my rig.

It's now time for a new state of the art PC. Budget is between £4000-5000. Happy to get lost in gaming again. I'll also be using my new PC for editing video, photography. Can't wait to get a bit of help in the forums choosing stuff for it :) I guess I'll be going for the 5080 if that's what it called. I'm hoping for a decent bump up in game quality over my 980 lol.

And Blimey. What a bunch of games I've missed, I'm gonna be like a kid in a candy store, really not sure where to start! I should have been buying stuff in the sales.

Happy Christmas!
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any system you buy now will last you but even inheriting money I would be pushed to waste it on a 5090 , a 5080 in a brand new setup will last you for ages

best bang for buck is King
 
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