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Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090

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  • C cm0002@lemmy.world

    Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

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    excral@feddit.org
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    #195

    For me it’s the GPU prices, stagnation of the technology (most performance gains come at the cost of stupid power draw) and importantly being fed up with AAA games. Most games I played recently were a couple years old, indie titles or a couple years old indie titles. And I don’t need a high powered graphics card for that. I’ve been playing far more on my steam deck than my desktop PC, despite the latter having significantly more powerful hardware. You can’t force fun through sheer hardware performance

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    • A ameancow@lemmy.world

      even the RX9070 is running around $900 USD, I cannot fathom affording even state-of-the-art gaming from years ago at this point. I am still using a GTX1660 and playing games from years ago I never got around to and having a grand time. Most adults I know are in the same boat and either not even considering upgrading their PC or they’re playing their kid’s console games.

      Every year we say “Gonna look into upgrading” but every year prices go up and wages stay the same (or disappear entirely as private-equity ravages the business world, digesting every company that isn’t also a private equity predator) and the prices of just living and eating are insane, so at this rate, a lot of us might start reading again.

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      jacksilver@lemmy.world
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      #196

      It makes me wonder if this will bring more people back to consoles. The library may be more limiting, but when a console costs less than just a gpu, itll be more tempting.

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      • C cm0002@lemmy.world

        Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

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        mongostein@lemmy.ca
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        #197

        There’s so many games out there I’d like to play, but I’m an adult with responsibilities. I don’t need the newest game or gaming hardware because no matter how hard I try to catch up I never will, so I don’t bother to try and I always have something to play on my hardware.

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        • candyman337C candyman337

          It’s just because I’m not impressed, like the raster performance bump for 1440p was just not worth the price jump at all. On top of that they have manufacturing issues and issues with their stupid 12 pin connector? And all the shit on the business side not providing drivers to reviewers etc. Fuuucccckk all that man. I’m waiting until AMD gets a little better with ray tracing and switching to team red.

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          landedgentry@lemmy.zip
          wrote on last edited by landedgentry@lemmy.zip
          #198

          ::: spoiler spoiler asdfasfasfsadf :::

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          • JustEnoughDucksJ JustEnoughDucks

            It’s funny, because often they aren’t prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality.

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            motoash@lemmy.world
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            #199

            The irony is it is optimized in several notable cases, like cyberpunk 2077 and most major ue5 engine based games. It’s just all the mipmap levels from distant to 4k up close really add up when the game actually has a decent amount of content.

            I wonder how many people really run games at settings that require the highest detail. I bet a lot of people would appreciate half the DL size or more just to leave 'em out and disable ‘ultra’ settings.

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            • appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comA appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

              Afaik the 2080was the last FE with a regular PCIe power connector.

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              theobvioussolution@lemm.ee
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              #200

              3090s weren’t burning up, though.

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              • L landedgentry@lemmy.zip

                ::: spoiler spoiler asdfasfasfsadf :::

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                candyman337
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                #201

                Yeah I have a 3080ti, If I had an older card I would 100% be buying AMD right now though.

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                • C cm0002@lemmy.world

                  Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

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                  itsmrchristmas@lemmy.zip
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                  #202

                  GPU prices are what drove me back to consoles. It was time to overhaul my PC as it was getting painfully out of date. Video card alone was gonna be 700. Meanwhile a whole ass PS5 that plays the same games was 500.

                  It’s been 2 years since and I don’t regret it. I miss mods, but not nearly as much as I thought. It also SOOO nice to play multiplayer games without cheaters everywhere. I actually used to be one of those people who thought controllers gave an unfair advantage but… you can use a M/KB on PS5 and guess what? I do just fine! Turns out that the problem was never controllers, it was the cheaters.

                  But then there is that. The controller. Oh my lord it’s so much more comfortable than even the best gaming mouse. I’ve done a complete 180 on this. So many game genres are just so terrible to play with M/KB that I now tell people whining about controller players this:

                  Use gaming equipment for gaming and leave office equipment in the office.

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                  • pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.comP pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com

                    Thats almost a year of work on my country lol…

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                    pinesolcario@lemy.lol
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #203

                    1 2-week take home check for me. AMD is where I stay. $650 card lasting me 5 years on a 2k UWHD monitor at more than 180 FPS.

                    I’ll never understand NVIDIA owners.

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                    • P pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com

                      Crypto mining with GPUs is dead, the only relevant mining uses ASICs now, so it would be more accurate to say:

                      Fucking youtubers and AI.

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                      Lord Wiggle
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #204

                      Fuck I’m old.

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                      • C cm0002@lemmy.world

                        Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

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                        RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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                        #205

                        It’s like how banks figured there was more money in catering to the super rich and just shit all over the rest of us peasants, GPU manufacturers that got big because of gamers have now turned their backs to us to cater to the insane “AI” agenda.
                        Also, friendly advice, unless you need CUDA cores and you have to upgrade, try avoiding Nvidia.

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                        • I incogcyberspaceuser@lemmy.world

                          What’s wrong with 4k gaming? Just curious

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                          kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                          4K is an outrageously high resolution.

                          If I was conspiratorial I would say that 4K was normalized as the next step above 1440p in order to create a demand for many generations of new graphics cards. Because it was introduced long before there was hardware able to use it without serious compromises. (I don’t actually think it’s a conspiracy though.)

                          For comparison, 1440p has 78% more pixels than 1080p. That’s quite a jump in pixel density and required performance.

                          4K has 125% more pixels than 1440p (300% more than 1080p). The step up is massive, and the additional performance required is as well.

                          Now there is a resolution that we are missing in between them. 3200x1800 is the natural next step above 1440p*. At 56% more pixels it would be a nice improvement, without an outrageous jump in performance. But it doesn’t exist outside of a few laptops for some reason.

                          *All these resolutions are multiples of 640x360. 720p is 2x, 1080p is 3x, 1440p is 4x, and 4K is 6x. 1800p is the missing 5x.

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