Many of us want our GPUs to last as long as reasonably possible. However, I'm not sure I've ever seen a good discussion of what features will extend card relevance, and the relative importance of different factors. The context of this is I have a 2060, and I'm debating options. So how long things last is very much on my mind.
So, possible break points:
NVidia generations: nvidia have a (to me) bad habbit of limiting their current DLSS version to only the most recent generation of cards. This forces faster card replacement, as if you want DLS3/4/5/whatever you're going to need to replace it. But is this relevant? Will newer games support older DLSS versions that nvidia allows us to run?
AMD: But AMD haven't limited it FSR, but at the same time it's not as good? And games can't retrospectively improve the FRS version? Or haven't? What gives?
Memory. Obviously memory. Please don't flame me. But I'm sure we all agree that 2GB is laughable, 8 is a bare minimum that we'd probabyl want to consider and that 24GB (xtx) might be overkill right now. But how long do people reckon the variations variations will last for?
Other possible points: Poweruse, software, drivers. But I can't see how that impact things much?
Those are the obvious ones that spring to mind. Note that I'm not asking for specific predictions (4070 will be relevant until...) but feel free to add them if you think it would be interesting? I'm just hoping to spur soe dicussion, to help me think through the options currently out there...
So, possible break points:
NVidia generations: nvidia have a (to me) bad habbit of limiting their current DLSS version to only the most recent generation of cards. This forces faster card replacement, as if you want DLS3/4/5/whatever you're going to need to replace it. But is this relevant? Will newer games support older DLSS versions that nvidia allows us to run?
AMD: But AMD haven't limited it FSR, but at the same time it's not as good? And games can't retrospectively improve the FRS version? Or haven't? What gives?
Memory. Obviously memory. Please don't flame me. But I'm sure we all agree that 2GB is laughable, 8 is a bare minimum that we'd probabyl want to consider and that 24GB (xtx) might be overkill right now. But how long do people reckon the variations variations will last for?
Other possible points: Poweruse, software, drivers. But I can't see how that impact things much?
Those are the obvious ones that spring to mind. Note that I'm not asking for specific predictions (4070 will be relevant until...) but feel free to add them if you think it would be interesting? I'm just hoping to spur soe dicussion, to help me think through the options currently out there...
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