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Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I hope you're right because Intel and AMD still can't compete with high end Nvidia cards, and that's how we ended up with a $5000 5090.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago*

    AMD can already beat nvidia at the price tiers most people actually buy at, and Intel is gaining ground way faster than anyone expected.

    But outside of the GPU shakeup, I could give a shit about Intel. Let China kill us. We earned this.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    FIVE THOUSAND?!

    Jesus nun-fucking Christ, what an absolute scam. I bought a 1070 for $220 in the first few months after release. Guess I'll just have to hope it can run for another 10 years...

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Tell me about it. I also paid about the same for a 1070 back in 2016 and it lasted me all the way until 2022, when I finally decided to be a sucker and pony up the $1600 for a brand new 4090 at launch. Which as insane as that is, I'm glad I did because now 4090s go for about $3K used!

    If you didn't buy a new GPU by mid 2023, you're pretty much stuck with what you have for the foreseeable future, given how insane prices are now with no signs of slowing down.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    We also partly ended up with the 5k 5090 because it's just the TITAN RTX of the 50xx generation - the absolute top of the line a card where you pay 200% extra for that last +10% performance.
    nVidia just realized few generations back that naming those cards the xx90 gets a bunch of more people to buy them, because they always desperately need to have the shiniest newest xx90 cards, no matter the cost.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Nvidia cards are more powerful, but even if others never catch up they could still be solidly "good enough" for gaming. I have a newer Nvidia card and my computer is feels so wildly overbuilt. The only thing I wish I had more of was SSD space, but that's a different problem.

    Unless you're a professional competitive gamer, in which case this is actual work equipment, the difference in performance between medium-tier and upper-echelon is probably not worth it for the average consumer.

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