PC Gaming

What it needs is a new multi-threaded engine so I can actually use all these extra cores. XD

i wish i could remember how i got it to run on apple silicon last time because i can't do it now

It doesn't help that the gains have been smaller, and the prices higher.

I've got a RX 6800 I bought in 2020, and nothing but the 5090 is a significant upgrade, and I'm sure as fuck not paying that kind of money for a video card.

Still rocking a GTX 1070 and I plan on using my Graphene OS Pixel 8 Pro till 2030 (only bought it (used ofc) bc my Huawei Mate 20 Pro died on my in October last year 😔)

Sticking with 1440p on desktop has gone very well for me. 2160p isn't worth the costs in money or perf.

I don't think they're actually expecting anyone to upgrade annually. But there's always someone due for an upgrade, however long it's been for them. You can compare what percentage of users upgraded this year to previous years.

When did it just become expected that everybody would upgrade GPU’s every year and that’s suppose to be normal?

Somewhere around 1996 when the 3dfx Voodoo came out. Once a year was a relatively conservative upgrade schedule in the late 90s.

Terraria minimum specs: "don't worry bro"

Absolutely. True creative games are made by smaller dev teams that aren't forcing ray tracing and lifelike graphics. The new Indianna Jones game isn't a GPU-selling card, and is the only game that I've personally had poor performance on with my 3070ti at 1440p.

Problem is preordering has been normalized, as has releasing games in pre-alpha state.

And still have your house burn down due to it just being a 2080 that has 9.8 jiggawats pushed into it.

There isn't a single reason to get any of the 5 series imo, they don't offer anything. And i say that as a 3d artist for games.

Edit: nevermind i remember some idiots got roped into 4k for gaming and are now paying the price like marketing wanted them to.

unless they're rich or actually need it for something important

Fucking youtubers and crypto miners.

I'm running Linux for everything and my GTX 1070 is still chugging along trying to power my 1440p 144hz monitor ^^'

Well, I mostly just play strategy games and CS2 (which I do have to run on almost the lowest possible settings without FSR. I basically turn everything to lowest except for lowest still AA setting and dynamic shadows to not have a disadvantage and get 110 - 180 fps depending on the situation)

But I'm planning on buying a used Radeon 9070 XT and just inserting it into my current build (i7 6800k based lololol) and on eventually buying a new build around it

(A 750W 80 Plus Platinum PSU should be able to handle a new 970 XT)

They are talking about skipping 1 or 2 generations not taking 10 years off

I've been on Linux since 2018 (my PC is from 2016) and my next GPUs will always be AMD, unless Intel somehow manages to produce an on par GPU

980gt.
Though, due to circumstances, I've not played any games in about a year.
Before that I only really played Rocket League in the few years preceding. So if that still going when I do have time to play them I'll still be fine with my old GPU.