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Future-proofing your GPU.

mrk said:
What card? 3 years ago I had a 2070 Super (2020 to 2022) and that was well over £300 and was just passable for RT in upcoming games like Cyberpunk etc, so a 3080 Ti was necessary. That's of course assuming someone wants to maintain a certain bar in GFX settings being as close to max as possible at 3440x1440 and get over 60fps.
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Three years ago we had the RTX3060TI, which was around £360,which pretty much was almost an RTX2080TI in performance at qHD:


The RTX3060TI is now over three years old.

The RTX2070 Super is a 2019 card so is 5 years old.

We also had the RX5700. This went as low as £260ish in mid 2019 and was faster than a GTX1080 within three years at half the price:

So where are the equivalents this generation? The sub £400 card which has almost flagship card performance or the £300 or cheaper card offering RTX3080/RX6800XT performance?

We don't even have £300 cards offering RTX3070 performance.

The biggest impediment to PC gaming moving forward now is the greed of the NVIDIA-AMD dGPU duopoly who want to sell you less for more.

The most popular card is the RTX3060 which will only be supplanted by the barely faster RTX4060 over the next two years. The most popular AMD card will be barely faster too.

Then add consoles into the fray with their economy hardware and things are going to start slowing down.

Imagine if that RTX4060 8GB was an RTX4060TI, and the RTX4060TI was an RTX4070? RTX4070TI being an RTX4070 24GB under £600 or the RX7900XT 20GB being an RX7800XT 20GB for a similar price? That would give a lot more room for devs to work with. Instead they will have to scale back things for a lot of games for the hardware to catch up.
 
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tommybhoy said:
That's future proofing and why the main player wants £1000+ to achieve it.

Loads don't want 16Gb though, but let's not kid ourselves here, it's because Nv won't give you it.
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It's all about the upsell. Nvidia is doing and so is AMD. When they look at PC gamers,they have learnt from EA and think we are all Whales.

TBH,I can't also blame them entirely for thinking that way - there are many games where microtransactions make more money than the initial cost of the game(which is already not cheap).
 
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mrk said:
Step 1: Acquire RTX 4090
Step 2: Laugh in the face of everything for years

End of steps.


What card? 3 years ago I had a 2070 Super (2020 to 2022) and that was well over £300 and was just passable for RT in upcoming games like Cyberpunk etc, so a 3080 Ti was necessary. That's of course assuming someone wants to maintain a certain bar in GFX settings being as close to max as possible at 3440x1440 and get over 60fps.
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Step 1: Aquire a RTX 4070 Ti for £575
Step 2: Enjoy it until next gen cards are out.
Step 3: Aquire a RTX 4090 for £575
Step 4: Laugh at mrk and the handful of games the extra power/vram came in handy between now and then.

I kid. Kinda :p:cry:
 
Awaits the inevitable my 4090 won't be worth less than £1000 when next gen cards are out. Oh and DLSS 4 or anything like that won't happen and the 5090 will only be 10% better so meh, won't need to upgrade post by mrk :cry:
 
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Awaits the inevitable my 4090 won't be worth less than £1000 when next gen cards are out. Oh and DLSS 4 or anything like that won't happen and the 5090 will only be 10% better so meh, won't need to upgrade post by mrk :cry:
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Out of interest, how much do you think a 5070 will cost?
 
TNA said:
Awaits the inevitable my 4090 won't be worth less than £1000 when next gen cards are out. Oh and DLSS 4 or anything like that won't happen and the 5090 will only be 10% better so meh, won't need to upgrade post by mrk :cry:
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It's true though, I will get you £4.67 if DLSS 4 comes out exclusive to the 50 series.

TNA said:
Step 3: Aquire a RTX 4090 for £575
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Won't happen as long as AI acceleration remains a thing, which it will. the AI cores and VRAM alone make them what they are and the foreign markets are hoovering up as much as they can. Why sell used at lower prices to gamers when you can ebay them for much more anyway to some buyer sucking them up on behalf of the Chinese in the UK for higher dollar :p
































Maybe.
 
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I've just got a steam deck, plays most my games great.

I've not invested anytime into pc building for years. What's the lowdown on gfx cards these days. Does the latest card play the latest games easy, or is it like the Crysis days?
 
JediFragger said:
96-bit mem bus for 5070 incoming!!!!
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Soon it will be my Nintendo 64 / Atari Jaguar has more bits than your 6xxx card. :cry:

TNA said:
Didn't AMD start that with their K2 CPU's back in the day? :D
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Oh I never knew that as I thought that started with the Fury cards with HBM memory though I dont think it was AMD themselves it was more their fans.
 
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