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

  • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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    10 天前

    It doesn’t help that the gains have been smaller, and the prices higher.

    I’ve got a RX 6800 I bought in 2020, and nothing but the 5090 is a significant upgrade, and I’m sure as fuck not paying that kind of money for a video card.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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      10 天前

      I’m in the same boat.

      In general, there’s just no way I could ever justify buying a Nvidia card in terms of cost per buck, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

      I’ll fork over 4 digits for a gfx when salaries go up by a digit as well.

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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      10 天前

      Not to mention the cards have gotten huge and you just about need a nuclear reactor to power them. Melting cables and all.

    • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 天前

      I just picked up a used RX 6800 XT after doing some research and comparing prices.

      The fact that a gpu this old can outperform or match most newer cards at a fraction of the price is insane, but I’m very happy with my purchase. Solid upgrade from my 1070 Ti

    • arudesalad@sh.itjust.works
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      10 天前

      I have a 6700xt and 5700x and my pc can do vr and play star citizen, they are the most demanding things I do on my pc, why should I spend almost £1000 to get a 5070 or 9070 and an am5 board+processor?

    • harxanimous@lemmy.today
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      8 天前

      Well that depends on your definition of significant. Don’t get me wrong, the state of the GPU market is not consumer friendly, but even an RX 9070 provides over a 50% performance uplift over the RX 6800.