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

[RavenXXX2]

They are probably all well over £1k though.

They were selling out a month a go, and some are not much over msrp. Blackwell hype/demand is dying down, I think the 9070 cards have killed most of it.

 

[SeeNoWeevil]

Unless you're priced out of the 'bottom end' of GPUs, prices going up just means longer waits for upgrades.

 

[Journey]

They were selling out a month a go, and some are not much over msrp. Blackwell hype/demand is dying down, I think the 7090 cards have killed most of it.

It seems so, as their cheapest £1079 card is going no where which is understandable in the fact you are seeing RX 9070 XT's at £569 appearing elsewhere nearly 2x the cost for a 5080 is a bit of a joke really, Nvidia need to release the 5070 Ti Super Ultra, at £649-679 (a 5080 in disguise) in a few months or they are only going to really sell to people who can't complete basic research or are rabid fanboys of a brand.

 

[Yrkoon]

if i never had my 7800xt i would off probably bit at a 9070xt for about 600 hundred odd, really dont want to spend more than that though and would need to a be a decent upgrade, gaming on a 1440p monitor and happy with the 7800xt for the moment

 

[swiss toni]

My 7800XT Sapphire pulse was a bargain at £419 from OC and cheers to @Gibbo for getting the price down for a short while, 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM at that price! I've fine tuned it (I love AMD cards for the tuning factor as they are a tad mediocre out of the box!) And it handles all i can throw at it at 1440p. Ray tracing isn't my bag BTW. I just want solid, Decent graphics at a bargain price! This card will last me at least a couple of years.

 

[Yrkoon]

My 7800XT Sapphire pulse was a bargain at £419, Fine tuned it handles all i can throw at it at 1440p. Ray tracing isn't my bag BTW.

sweet thats the same version i have and hasnt skipped a beat

 

[swiss toni]

Mine has been flawless, No coil whine etc, Tweaked it pulls over 3MHZ with a 75 degree hotspot, You have to invest a bit of time tweaking it but it's worth it, Best bang for buck ATM if you are on 1440p mate! I get a 4225 score on steel nomad which apparently is 'Great' at a zero power limit to keep things cool! That's good enough for me ATM!

 

[coughlanio]

I don't think I could justify >£1k for any card in the near-to-mid future. The only exception I'd make is for something like a hypothetical RTX 6090 or 7090 with 48-64GB of VRAM for local LLM inference fun. Money is not even the bottleneck for me, it's just that for the amount of games I play these days as a new parent, I can't justify the expense for probably a few dozen hours a year of taking advantage of the hardware.

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

I don't think I could justify >£1k for any card in the near-to-mid future. The only exception I'd make is for something like a hypothetical RTX 6090 or 7090 with 48-64GB of VRAM for local LLM inference fun. Money is not even the bottleneck for me, it's just that for the amount of games I play these days as a new parent, I can't justify the expense for probably a few dozen hours a year of taking advantage of the hardware.

I'm not a parent and with my retro setup it's just plain nuts!
Plus if a card has a high TDP they're basically a heater.

 

[cosmogenesis]

I’m gonna keep my 4090 for another 5 years. AI appears to be here for good and most of the fabrication time at plants is producing chipsets for this data centre function.

Graphics cards for gamers are on the back burner relatively speaking

 

[Jono8]

Going to make a bold prediction on the 5070 ti...

I reckon it's going to easily meet RRP or lower by the summer (possibly sooner) and possibly even have an official price cut or games bundle etc to help shift them at some point later in the year.

They are in stock everywhere now, and I think most of the audience/market for that level of card is going to have already bought or continue to buy the 9070 XT.

 

[Sparky]

I will still wait for a card I want to be on the used market. None of my games are that demanding that warrant me spending 2-3k on one

 

[Infidelus]

Still happy with the 2070 that I got in 2019 for the games I play and as I have no interest in a 4k monitor my MSI 2k monitor will do fine.

 

[heatonpkmassive]

Still happy with the 2070 that I got in 2019 for the games I play and as I have no interest in a 4k monitor my MSI 2k monitor will do fine.

I'm still happy with this 4080 Super FE, which has the same cooler as the 4090 FE, subsequently massively overengineered on a 4080 chip.

Love this card, was pleased with how underwhelming the 5000 series was for 4000 series owners so I could keep this one and have little to no FOMO. Not mentioning not having to spend this time around..

 

[Sparky]

I'm still happy with this 4080 Super FE, which has the same cooler as the 4090 FE, subsequently massively overengineered on a 4080 chip.

Love this card, was pleased with how underwhelming the 5000 series was for 4000 series owners so I could keep this one and have little to no FOMO. Not mentioning not having to spend this time around..

Other than a few bragging rights on benchmarks I honestly dont see the point of moving to a 5080/90 from a 4080/90. I bought a 4070Ti Super but sold it again soon after as my enjoyment of BF1 [my main game] changed not one bit, did I notice better images over my 3070? probably but not so much that warranted the £800.

 

[Personality+]

 

[heatonpkmassive]

Other than a few bragging rights on benchmarks I honestly dont see the point of moving to a 5080/90 from a 4080/90. I bought a 4070Ti Super but sold it again soon after as my enjoyment of BF1 [my main game] changed not one bit, did I notice better images over my 3070? probably but not so much that warranted the £800.

For me only a 5090 would be a suitable upgrade, but that's way too much money for the uplift I'd get. I can see me rocking this card for another couple of years, 6000 series is what I'd realistically be looking at unless 5090 comes down in price by a lot.

And we all know that isn't gonna happen.

 

[Sparky]

And we all know that isn't gonna happen.

Not a chance. I still stand by what I said before, the days of upgrading by recouping a lot of what you spent are gone, I'd be surprised if anyone spent anywhere near 2k on a 2nd hand card 2 years down the line.

 

[heatonpkmassive]

I'd be surprised if anyone spent anywhere near 2k on a 2nd hand card 2 years down the line.

Which is why the 5090 is my only real upgrade. It's not like the 4090 isn't powerful enough to be, it just doesn't make economic sense.

And to be honest, you could potentially argue that neither does the 5090. It's a really bad time, 9070/9070xt release aside, for gamers and graphics cards.

 

[Vogon]

Going to make a bold prediction on the 5070 ti...

I reckon it's going to easily meet RRP or lower by the summer (possibly sooner) and possibly even have an official price cut or games bundle etc to help shift them at some point later in the year.

They are in stock everywhere now, and I think most of the audience/market for that level of card is going to have already bought or continue to buy the 9070 XT.

I think it will be RRP by then, maybe before, but doubt it will be much lower. Historically they haven't dropped below very often recently. Yes they are available now, but you are still looking in most instance £70 upwards over RRP because retailers (or manufactures maybe ?) are still milking it.

Upgrading from a 4 series is certainly not worth it IMO. Even from my 3080 its a bit of a push price wise for the extra 40-45%, as the 3080 is still a perfectly capable card, but its not always logic that dictates our decisions !