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

I would say that £600-700 is my absolute max, and it would need to be a very impressive performance and package offering. It's why I'm eyeballing the 5070TI and look forward to reviews, but time will tell in that regard, hopefully it doesn't disappoint.

Do I like spending that much for a upper mid/lower high end card? Absolutely not, but I enjoy the hobby enough that it's worthwhile to me.

Ideally no more than £400-500, frankly if the 5070ti doesn't work out I'm half tempted to sell my current 4070 (vanilla, not Super or TI etc) and try my luck with a second hand 4080S.

For reference, this is for mixed resolution usage with modern games, I play a fair amount at both 4K and 3440x1440 as I use both a 4K 65" tv and a 34" ultrawide.
 
Felt bad paying £650 for a GPU, would probably up my limit to around £700 now and still feel bad, but no higher.

But only if I had a need to upgrade, I certainly wouldn't do it unless I was struggling in a number of games.
 
Nothing is inherently too expensive. It depends on how much disposable income I have at a given moment.

If my buying power right now (for example) is 3x of what it was two years ago, then suddenly 2k on a GPU is just fine.

It's not like I have an alternative if I want to max out my most anticipated game (Silent Hill 2).
 
~£700 to play the games I want to in my back catalogue, going forward probably less as games that are getting made appeal less and less to me. Dont know if the games have changed or I have but no online game in the last five years has peaked my interest and single player games I can play at much lower FPS so don't need a fancy cutting edge GPU.
 
I purchased my 6700XT for £309 on a OCUK special but I would go up to £450. I'm still on a 1080p display but aiming to get a new display to move up to 1440p. A 9070, 9060 XT or possibly a 5060TI would probably be my aim depending on their prices.
 
Last card was £650. Which was double what I'd ever had to spend previously to get "value", and I'd always bought 70 series/AMD equivalent or above. So £700 is my absolute limit, as I just don't see the value of paying more, it seems much like many in this thread.

As an aside, new games though now requiring much higher GPU performance really don't seem visually all that much of an upgrade from games released 6 or 7 years ago, in fact uglier/less fidelity in a lot of cases (and I'm not talking art style).
 
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My limit for the 5090 is probably £2,500. If all the AIB cards are above that and don’t drop in price in the coming months then I’ll probably wait for the 5080ti or get a used 4090.
 
I bought the 4090 FE for £1600 ish some 2 years ago and that was mad but it's worked out ok. So if say no more than that and like the 4090 it has to give exceptional performance which in my opinion the 5090 does not. Comparing to upgrade, I went from a 6800XT to 4090 so that was massive. Also bought a 7800XT which I sold on here and that was good too. Always wanted a 7900XT but wouldn't pay more than £600 at the time. Even though now I do most of my gaming on Steam deck and Odin2/RP5 I'm so glad I bought the 4090 at the time. The 6090 would have to be a massive upgrade for me to consider buying it and also below 2K.
 
At the moment I'd say £650 is my limit that I'm willing to pay. Though I try to take the overall value into account. If for instance there was a card about to release with ~4090 performance for 750 i might be tempted. Equally even though the 7900xt can be had for under 650 and is a good card, it doesn't quite offer enough of an uplift for me for that price.
 
Depends on needs - but to hit the recommended specs on games I wouldn't feel like anything over £500 was value for money, but I don't have a specific price limit more what I need - if I need bleeding edge performance I will pay for it. Hitting ultra settings in a game at 1440p I'd pay up to £800 depending on how generous things like VRAM spec is and how the GPU stacks up within the performance range of the generation.

The 4090 prices I don't feel were too bad, but the 4080(S) was/is terrible at full retail prices and the 5080 is taking the mick at anything over £800 unless they stick 20+GB VRAM on it and a bit more of an up tick from the 4080.
 
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have to be honest was really looking forward to getting one of these. But when i saw leaks coming disappointment kicked in then with low stock ..
launch day will be interesting to see how high they will charge because they no ppl will pay for them.
 
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During the pandemic, I spent £800.00. I won't be wasting my cash this time.

I am going to set my budget at about £600.00 maximum.

If you think about it, these cards are merely a part of a PC, not an entire PC. It just enables us to game with modern titles. However, I have PS5, a Series X and an Xbox One X with an LG OLED 120 Hertz TV downstairs and to be honest games look great on that set-up. For the price of an RTX 5090, I could buy another OLED TV, a PS5 Pro, a Series X and probably a Nintendo Switch OLED. So, why would I spend £2,000.00 on an RTX 5090, that in summer generates enough heat that it will melt through the floor like a Chernobyl nuclear reactor and will deliver only 30% gains over a GPU from over two years ago? I would argue that it is poor value. Very poor. For an add-in board for a PC. Motherboards, with CPU's and RAM cost far far less combined!
 
Cards off the top of my head,
GTX 460
GTX 670
GTX 1660
Next I'm thinking 5080, but waiting on reviews, 4080 Super might be better. No chance I'm paying over £1k.
 
£0. I thought I might need a separate graphics card for my graphic applications but I didn’t. Onboard is fine.
 
They can charge what they like. All that will happen is that I will buy less often.

I can understand why the 5090 is expensive but the performance increase does not justify it's price. It's no longer a viable upgrade. It's more the sort of thing you would pay when you buy a new PC every four or five years. I think they are killing the "upgrade" market for many people. Also, not sure I want £1+ a day on my electric bill.
 
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I will split my answer into two parts

for professional work loads, ie AI stuff - I would love to take two of Nvidia 40+ Gigs VRAM professional workstation cards but they so expensive just could not justify the price, hence in comparison a 5090 at £2000 is not bad with 32G VRAM and two of those with their slimmer design is a possibility.

for gaming honestly my limit would be £1500-£1600, if the 5090 was like 70% faster than 4090 maybe we could justify the £2000 price and extra VRAM but its 27% faster on average and with all that blurry fake gen stuff, the pricing its a mess. Its ridiculous to even think about £2000 for a GPU.
 
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