Technology

It's diminishing returns.

We need a giant leap forward to show a noticeable effect now.

Like, if a cars top speed was 10mph, a 5 mph increase is fucking huge.

But getting a supercar to top off at 255 instead of 250, just isn't a huge deal. And you wouldn't notice unless you were testing it.

So even if they keep increasing power at a steady rate, the end user is going to notice it less and less everytime.

From 2020 I planned on building a new gaming PC. Bought an ITX case and followed hardware releases closely... And then got disillusioned with it all.

Picked up a Steam Deck in August of 2022 and couldn't be happier with it. The ITX case is collecting dust.

That's exactly what I did!

Come play Unreal with us then hehehe

We’ve all moved over to The Specialists!

Nah you need that Fireball upgrade man

Nah 2022 it was running backwards far more. 2023 was a slight recovery but still worse than 2021.

I feel the same way. I don't have the data to prove it.

A lot of people did this. The GPU market for gaming might have actually shrunk. You would think Nvidia would panic but due to AI chip demand their stock is at an ATH and no company changes course or reevaluates and what they're doing when shareholders are lining up to suck their dicks, so...no end in sight. Meanwhile AMD doesn't seem to want to even try to make a play for market share.

I just "upgraded" from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 4060 Ti 16Gb, but only because I was building a PC for my boyfriend and gave him the 1080. I'm really not seeing a noticeable difference in frame rate on 1440p.

1080 gang rise up.

But seriously, my 1080 does fine for most things, and I have a 2k 144hz monitor. It's JUST starting to show its age as I can't blast everything on high/ultra anymore and have to turn down the biggest fps guzzling settings.

Yeah I keep waiting for a good deal to retire my 1080ti.

Guess I could go for a 3060 or something but 4 series will probably leave my old CPU behind.

How was that change? I’m thinking of doing the same, but it requires a power supply update too, so I’m on the fence.

And how much did you pay for the 2016 card, what range was it in, and what is the new card's cost and range?

Overal, gpus have been a major ripoff, despite these upgrades giving good performance boosts

That's not a sentence I'm used to seeing

I've been very happy with my Arc A770, it works great on Linux and performs well for what I paid for it.

I'm so glad that Intel has stepped into the GPU space, even if their cards are weaker. More competition will hopefully light a fire under NVidia to get their shit together.

Ya the problem I landed in was not anticipating how hard it would be to push my new monitor. Ultra wide 2.5k resolution with 144Hz. I can't do cyberpunk full res more than 60fps, and that's with dlss enabled and not all settings at max.

2070s

Its nvidia, its always a ripoff :p

6600XTs seem to be going for around £200, often £180 even (used, eBay).

If you'd prefer new, you can get a 6650XT for £240. A 6650XT will be 6% faster than a 6600XT.

It's double the performance of a 580, uses less power, will be supported longer, etc.

There are some used options e.g. 5700 XT-s are really cheap because many of them were mining card. For new cards there aren't many options RX 6600 has relatively good value, but it's only worth it if efficiency or features like hw video codecs are important for you.