• Merlin@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The consumer GPU market is becoming a dystopia at the top end. AMD has publicly retreated from it and Intel is likely a decade away from competing there. I guess I’ll stay in the midrange moving forward. Fuck Nvidia.

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    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I don’t get why people are so keen on handing over such a huge amount of money just for bragging rights. The midrange is perfectly fine for playing any game these days. Those top end GPUs are getting an absolutely inordinate amount of attention compared to the relevance they have to most people.

      • warm@kbin.earth
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        5 days ago

        Another problem is how big games are made now, they are made (relatively) quickly and are very underperformant. So while GPUs 2, 3 generations ago could be running beautiful games at beautiful framerates, instead they run like ass. Nvidia wants them to rely on their DLSS shit to give people a reason to keep buying their GPUs every cycle. So people feel like they need to upgrade, when they really don’t, instead they should stop buying these poorly made games.

      • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        The problem is that NVIDIA is consistently gimping the mid range making it a very unattractive proposition.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Yup, my 6650 XT is perfectly fine, and my SO has a 6700 XT. Both are way more than we need, and we paid $200-300 for them on sale. Why get the top end? Mine is roughly equivalent to current consoles, so I doubt I’m missing out on much except RTX, but I also don’t care enough about RTX to 10x my GPU cost.