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amd exists, people.
please put your money where your mouth is please?
Not at the higher end, it doesn't.
dunno about this generation cause im not in the market for new parts, but amd usually comes within spitting distance at much lower prices.
it makes less and less sense to buy nvidia as time passes, yet people still do.
Have you seen nvidia 5 series? AMD is accidentally higher end now.
Or you know buy an AMD card and quit giving your money to the objectively worse company.
They tried this with the 4080 12 gb... This time they dug in and did it whole hog with all the 5080s.
Shame amd is not going to be competitive
For the people looking to upgrade: always check first the used market in your area. It is quite obvious for now the best thing to do is just try to get 40 series from the drones that must have the 50 series
I have never had a gpu, I want 4k120 so which one should I get?
Not sure if in your area is a thing, but a 4090 second hand at a decent price should do it
Good luck with that they are selling for $1800 used on eBay
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lol this reminds me of whatever that card was back in the 2000's or so, where you could literally make a trace with a pencil to upgrade the version lower to the version higher.
I remember using the pencil trick on my old AMD Duron processor to unlock it. 🤣
Yeah, those were the days when cost control was simply to use the same PCB but with just the traces left out. There were also quite a few cards that used the exact same PCB, traces intact, that you could simple flash the next tier card's BIOS and get significant performance bumps.
Did a few of those mods myself back in the day, those were fun times.
Ok now how do I turn my 2070s into a 5090? 😅
Get 500 dollars then use AI to generate the other 3/4 of the money and buy a 5090.
Well of you ask Nvidia it's now just the driver making frames for you.
Ya I'm sad to see and exit. Maybe in a year or two I'll get that sapphire 7900 xtx or whatever it is.
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Vote with your wallets. DLSS and Ray Tracing aren't worth it to support this garbage.
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I've got the feeling that GPU development is plateauing, new flagships are consuming an immense amount of power and the sizes are humongous. I do give DLSS, Local-AI and similar technologies the benefit of doubt but is just not there yet. GPUs should be more efficient and improve in other ways.
And then you pick up a steam deck and play games that were originally meant to play on cards the size of steam deck.
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