$449 is still massively overpriced for a midrange card.
Prices will never come down to previous gen card prices. We’ve passed the threshold. NVidia will keep their prices high because there significant demand for their chips outside of gaming and AMD follows in lockstep.
This is probably true, but it doesn’t mean that individual, non-AI/crypto consumers have to accept it, and largely, they haven’t been. All it takes is for Nvidia/AMD stock to drop from the overinflated prices for prices to come down.
And the stock dip is unlikely since they’re doing gangbusters on the datacenter front. Nvidia has enough gas in the tank to weather the hit from low consumer Gaming sales.
I’ll be holding onto my 1060 6GB until it croaks.
I’m still rocking an R9 380 w 2GB VRAM. Upgrading just isn’t feasable for me since the midrange cards are all super overpriced.
NVIDIA has been struggling in recent years to find use cases for their graphics cards. That’s why they’re pushing towards raytracing, because rasterization has hit its limit and people no longer need to upgrade their GPU for that (they tried pushing towards 8k resolution, but that’s complete BS for screens outside of cinemas). However, most people don’t care about having better reflections and indirect lighting in their games, so they’re struggling to get anywhere in the gaming market. Now NVIDIA is moving into other markets for their cards that don’t involve gamers, and they’re just left as an afterthought.
I don’t think that this will ever change again. Games like DOTA, Fortnite and Minecraft are hugely popular, and they don’t need raytracing at all.
I personally tried going towards fluid simulations for games, because those also need a ton of GPU resources if calculated at runtime (that was the topic of my Master’s thesis). However, there have barely been any games featuring dynamic water. It’s apparently not interesting enough to design games around.
No 449 is great for a midrange card. It’s okay to not like spending money but this price is impressive.
No it’s not. If it was $350 I’d be impressed, but even in this day that’s $100 overpriced.
As someone who dropped $550 on a 1080 (not Ti) years ago and still using it for VR, I could be tempted to go AMD. Nvidia has gone off the deep end with pricing and I can’t see myself going that route. I’m starting to hit some bottleknecks and I’m sure I’ll upgrade in the next 3 years.
I went from a 1070 to a 6700 XT myself for the same reason. nVidia can fuck off.
Too bad amd has always lagged in VR performance. Especially if you were trying to do wireless quest, I think the encoding latency was quite a bit higher.
I nabbed a 6800 XT for $550 last fall also for VR and the same one’s even cheaper now (but the 7800 XT probably has it beat assuming the same or greater performance)
Since NVIDIA shit the bed this gen for everything under $599 4070, these seem like decent options at their respective price points
7800 XT looks like the best value at 16GB.
I know the Arc a770 has a 16GB variant for a lot cheaper, but it seems like its performance is generally way lower.
However, both vendors have released major driver updates recently so I might be judging by outdated benchmarks.
I’m excited to see the benchmarks
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“I just wish there were an option between the $300 to $400 marks that offered enough performance to push us firmly into the 1440p era.” That was my colleague Tom Warren’s conclusion reviewing the $399 Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti and $269 AMD Radeon RX 7600.
The company claims both cards can average over 60fps in the latest games at 1440p with maximum settings and no fancy upscaling tricks — including troubled PC ports like The Last of Us Part I and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
AMD says FSR 3 is already slated for Cyberpunk 2077, Forspoken, Immortals of Aveum, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Frostpunk 2, Squad, Starship Troopers: Extermination, Black Myth: Wukong, Crimson Desert, and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
That way, you’ll be able to inject extra frames into any DX10 or DX11 game with your AMD graphics card, no developer support required.
“Our research tells us 70 percent of customers are willing to compromise on image quality,” says AMD gaming chief Frank Azor.
AMD will sell its RX 7800 XT reference design directly at AMD.com with the two-fan cooler you see in the render atop this post.
The original article contains 771 words, the summary contains 194 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Like a Dragon BE KILLING IT with their staying up to date on FSR!
Ta to mu caro
