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amd exists, people.
please put your money where your mouth is please?
Not at the higher end, it doesn't.
They tried this with the 4080 12 gb... This time they dug in and did it whole hog with all the 5080s.
Shame amd is not going to be competitive
Or you know buy an AMD card and quit giving your money to the objectively worse company.
For the people looking to upgrade: always check first the used market in your area. It is quite obvious for now the best thing to do is just try to get 40 series from the drones that must have the 50 series
I have never had a gpu, I want 4k120 so which one should I get?
Not sure if in your area is a thing, but a 4090 second hand at a decent price should do it
Good luck with that they are selling for $1800 used on eBay
What do you want to do at 4k, 120 Hz?
Watch Yellowstone.
Nah just I have the G series oled capable of it so why not get the system that can too. GoW and the like.
Lol... 5090 might do it?
I thought it was a standard enough option to expect?
I am assuming you mean 120 fps for modern vidya games maxed out?
Yes, given a console can do it handy enough I thought pcs would have a good handle on it. I understand it is game dependent but i have been hearing 4k120 for over a decade now from pc gamers.
lol this reminds me of whatever that card was back in the 2000's or so, where you could literally make a trace with a pencil to upgrade the version lower to the version higher.
I remember using the pencil trick on my old AMD Duron processor to unlock it. 🤣
Yeah, those were the days when cost control was simply to use the same PCB but with just the traces left out. There were also quite a few cards that used the exact same PCB, traces intact, that you could simple flash the next tier card's BIOS and get significant performance bumps.
Did a few of those mods myself back in the day, those were fun times.
Ok now how do I turn my 2070s into a 5090? 😅
Get 500 dollars then use AI to generate the other 3/4 of the money and buy a 5090.
Well of you ask Nvidia it's now just the driver making frames for you.
Ya I'm sad to see and exit. Maybe in a year or two I'll get that sapphire 7900 xtx or whatever it is.
Liquid nitrogen cooling
This would be more like 2070 to 2080
I know it was a joke
My 2070 is still treating me pretty well!
Mine too except for 3440x1440 with 144Hz possible. I hardly get that resolution and refresh rate on higher demanding games
Yeah same, but I only have a 1440p monitor, and I can barely tell the difference after 90hz, anyhow.
3440?
Yeah my mistake
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Vote with your wallets. DLSS and Ray Tracing aren't worth it to support this garbage.
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Just like I rode my 1080ti for a long time it looks like I'll be running my 3080 for awhile lol.
I hope in a few years when I'm actually ready to upgrade that the GPU market isn't so dire... All signs are pointing to no unfortunately.
Just like I rode my 1080ti for a long time
You only skipped a generation. What are you talking about?
I had the 1080ti well after the 3080 release. I Got a great deal and had recent switched to 1440p so I pulled the trigger on a 3080 not long before the 4000 series cards dropped.
Same here.
Only upgraded when my 1080 died, so I snagged a 3080 for an OK price. Not buying a new card untill this one dies. Nvidia can get bent.
Maybe team red next time….
I'm extremely petty and swore off Nvidia for turning off my shadow play unless I made an account for my 660, had to downgrade my driver to get it back without an account. I only have an Nvidia card now because I got a 3080ti for free after my rx 580 died.
I'm still rocking a 2070 and doing great. Turns out the games that I like rarely depend on graphical fidelity, but rather on good visual design and game design.
But yeah if graphical fidelity is your bag, or if you need every possible frame for competitive reasons, then your options are much more limited and far more expensive. Sucks.
I'm still riding my 1080ti...
1080ti has had the longest useful lifespan of any GPU ever.
Im still running mine but Im likely to buy a 5090 very soon as Im making the leap to 4k gaming and vr from 2k.
980ti here, playing Cyberpunk 2077 at sufficiently high settings without issues (if you call ~30fps 1440p with no path tracing “without issues”, that is).
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I've got the feeling that GPU development is plateauing, new flagships are consuming an immense amount of power and the sizes are humongous. I do give DLSS, Local-AI and similar technologies the benefit of doubt but is just not there yet. GPUs should be more efficient and improve in other ways.
I’ve said for a while that AMD will eventually eclipse all of the competition, simply because their design methodology is so different compared to the others. Intel has historically relied on simply cramming more into the same space. But they’re reaching theoretical limits on how small their designs can be; They’re being limited by things like atom size and the speed of light across the distance of the chip. But AMD has historically used the same dies for as long as possible, and relied on improving their efficiency to get gains instead. They were historically a generation (or even two) behind Intel in terms of pure hardware power, but still managed to compete because they used the chips more efficiently. As AMD also begins to approach those theoretical limits, I think they’ll do a much better job of actually eking out more computing power.
And the same goes for GPUs. With Nvidia recently resorting to the “just make it bigger and give it more power” design philosophy, it likely means they’re also reaching theoretical limitations.
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