Do PC gamers feel 12GB of VRAM is simply not enough for the money in 2024?

  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    GPUs haven’t been reasonably priced since the 1000 series.

    And now there’s no coin mining promising some money back.

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      You mean Nvidia GPUs? I got my 6750XT for 500€, and I think it’s a good price for the performance I get.

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        8 months ago

        That is still overpriced i think. Although, much less egregious than what Nv is doing. Launch msrp for a HD7850, which was the same category as the 6700XT today (upper middle tier) was 250 usd. A few years prior the 4850 started at 200 usd. Even the Rx 480 started at only 230 usd. And those were all very decent cards in their time.

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          Yeah, I think it’s important not to lose perspective here and let expectations slide just because Nvidia are being more awful right now. Make no mistake, value went out the window a long time ago and AMD are also fucking us, just a little less hard than their main competitor. Even adjusting for inflation, what used to get you the top of the line now gets you last-gen midrange.

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          8 months ago

          Launch msrp for a HD7850, which was the same category as the 6700XT today (upper middle tier) was 250 usd.

          There’s much more effort involved to produce modern GPU now. Either way, if NVidia would be truly greedy, they’d close gaming gpu business right away and would produce only AI accelerators. You can take same 4070, add $200 worth of GDDR chips to the layout and sell this for $15k minimum, shit would be on backorder.