2023 was the year that GPUs stood still::A new GPU generation did very little to change the speed you get for your money.
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But boy did it change the price you have to pay for it.
You guys think I should upgrade my Voodoo 3 card? No one is joining my quake server anymore anyway
Come play Unreal with us then hehehe
Given technological progress and efficiency improvements I would argue that 2023 is the year the gpu ran backwards. We’ve been in a rut since 2020… and arguably since the 2018 crypto explosion.
Nah 2022 it was running backwards far more. 2023 was a slight recovery but still worse than 2021.
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A lot of people did this. The GPU market for gaming might have actually shrunk. You would think Nvidia would panic but due to AI chip demand their stock is at an ATH and no company changes course or reevaluates and what they’re doing when shareholders are lining up to suck their dicks, so…no end in sight. Meanwhile AMD doesn’t seem to want to even try to make a play for market share.
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If you want to do any game streaming though (e.g. on Sunshine/moonlight), Nvidia is still miles ahead.
Still rocking a 1080. I don’t see a big enough reason to upgrade yet. I mostly play PC games on my steam deck anyways. I thought starfield was going to give me a reason. Cyberpunk before that. I’m finally playing cyberpunk but the advanced haptics on PS5 sold me on going that route over my PC.
Yeah I keep waiting for a good deal to retire my 1080ti.
Guess I could go for a 3060 or something but 4 series will probably leave my old CPU behind.
1080 gang rise up.
But seriously, my 1080 does fine for most things, and I have a 2k 144hz monitor. It’s JUST starting to show its age as I can’t blast everything on high/ultra anymore and have to turn down the biggest fps guzzling settings.
I just upgraded from a 1070 to a 3060ti. The numbers definitely did not justify a 4060ti.
How was that change? I’m thinking of doing the same, but it requires a power supply update too, so I’m on the fence.
intel GPUs definitely won out for what you get for the money
That’s not a sentence I’m used to seeing
I’ve been very happy with my Arc A770, it works great on Linux and performs well for what I paid for it.
I just don’t see the point in upgrading every new release anyway, or even buying the most expensive one. I’ve had my gigabyte Rx 570 for several years and I can play Baldurs Gate 3 full settings with no issues. Maybe I haven’t tasted 120 fps but I’m just happy I can play modern games. When it comes time to get a new graphics card, which may be soon since I am planning to build my wife’s PC, maybe then I’ll see what’s going on with the higher end ones. Maybe I’m just a broke ass though.
Ya the problem I landed in was not anticipating how hard it would be to push my new monitor. Ultra wide 2.5k resolution with 144Hz. I can’t do cyberpunk full res more than 60fps, and that’s with dlss enabled and not all settings at max.
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As someone who upgraded from a 2016 GPU to a 2023 one I was completely fine with this. Prices finally came down and I got the best card 2023 offered me, which may not have been impressive for this generation but was incredible from what I came from.
And how much did you pay for the 2016 card, what range was it in, and what is the new card’s cost and range?
Overal, gpus have been a major ripoff, despite these upgrades giving good performance boosts
I believe about $300 for an AMD RX480 (great card and still going strong). This time I had a bit more money and wanted something more powerful. I went with the AMD 7800 XT Nitro ($550) which I got on release day. Sure it’s not top of the line but it has played pretty much everything I throw at it with all settings set to max and still maintaining 60fps or above. I have an UW monitor with its max resolution being 5120x1440 which is what most games will play at and everything still plays fine. It’s almost crazy to me that this card would be considered mid range.
That’s about equal to a 3070ti, what are you playing to max settings 60fps on 32:9 1440 resolution on that? Because either you are straight up lying or being intentionally misleading by selecting a very narrow range of games.
I can assure you I am not lying. I do use FSR or XeSS which helps a ton with performance and freesync enabled with my monitor. Cyberpunk 2077 is probably one of the most taxing games I play and use XeSS with that one and everything else set to max without Ray tracing of course and I get just under 60fps in most areas and over 60fps in buildings. I’ll attach a pic of the in game test it can perform.
I finally upgraded my GTX970 to a used RTX 3080 for 300€. The difference at least for me for the same 300€ was insane.
I had to buy 3070 ti at scalped price. Ended up paying £700 for it. I hate myself for it but the prices didn’t shift for months after and my gtx 1080 kicked the bucket. No way in hell am I buying anything this gen. My wife’s 1080 is going for now, maybe we’ll get 5080 if it’s not a rip off.
Its nvidia, its always a ripoff :p
Especially now when gaming GPUs are an afterthought for them.
Thats only nvidia though. Amd seems to still be trying to compete with nvidia some way or another
I wouldn’t say so, they also seem to have abandoned the gaming segment and nowadays are playing more or less ball with NVIDIA while trying to improve their AI stack so that they can get a higher chunk of the data centre business.
I don’t think that’s true at all. Let’s go back a while.
We had Polaris, a mid range 2016 architecture that was sold for years as a mid range then low end card.
They also had the Vega cards, which were compute-focussed and not particularly great at gaming.
Following that, they had the 5700 series. Decent gaming cards.
After that, the 6000s series. Right up there with Nvidia, and taking into consideration the die size, performance, and comparatively generous VRAM, you could argue they were the better gaming cards, despite losing in RT.
7000s series is pretty much like the 6000 except slightly further behind the 4090, albeit for half the real-world price due to AI demand bringing the already crazy 4090 prices even higher.
Idk to me it seems AMD is more competitive in gaming now than they have been for a long time.
Absolutely, AMD is very focused on Datacenter/AI now. They just presented their next gen AI system MI300X which made AMD stock go up significantly, and on the CPU side their server CPU Epyc is where the big money is at.
That said AMD is still into gaming hardware because they work with both Sony and Microsoft on making new consoles, what we get on the desktop from AMD, is probably mostly derived from that on the GPU side.
Especially now when gaming GPUs are an afterthought for them.
NVIDIA fucking sucks. But I do a lot of modeling in blender and holy damn do I want that RTX.
So how about the 2½ years from 2016 to 2018 between Nvidia GFX 1080ti and RTX 2080?
I think the headline should say A Year not THE year.The thing is its working so damn well. 4090s are selling in huge numbers.
To be honest I think it’s just AI developers gobbling them all up because Nvidia’s dedicated workload and professional GPUs are always sold out. Plus spending 1400$ on games is ridiculous, and that’s coming from somebody with a ryzen 7800x3d and a 7900xtx. I regret it so much, such a waste of money.
Having a 7900XTX and a 5800X…I don’t really get the wate of money part. I can throw everything at it and it runs exceptionally well with 5120x1440 resolution. Most, if not all,is running well inside Freesync 2 range…I couldn’t be any happier and since I’m getting old now, I’d compare it to the Athlon 64 X2 times with a Radeon 850 XT…between that and now, I never had a system that did so well with the games of it’s time.
Edit: Oh you mean spending 1400 on games…well, yeah, games are ridiculously priced…considering you don’t really own a copy either…
I upgraded from an RX 480 to an RTX 3060 a few days ago. Crazy difference, especially in compute
Well, you are going from AMD to Nvidia, so there is a significant upgrade just in that. When I did my switch, I swore never to go back to AMD Gpu’s. But also going to a much more modern card than an almost 8 year old one would make anyone’s rig feel better. Glad you have a good card now!
