Nvidia “prepping” the market for our wonderful new Blackwell prices!
Somewhere in the background you hear the sound of Jensen spitting into his palm in preparation.
I guess once my 2080 croaks I’ll need to find a new hobby. I can’t justify spending double my monthly income on a “mid range” videocard. Not in the least because I need to eat and heat my home.
Then again, any 50xx could probably be used as a space heater…
A second hand dGPUs could be an option, or going with Intel dGPUs.
2080 should still be OK for FHD gaming.
Playing games on ultra will heat your home!
This might not be what you want to hear, but console gaming. For the price of a GPU you can get a console and load up on games.
A PS5 Pro costs like 800€ and is significantly slower, more restricted, and can’t be upgraded without shelling out a similar (and rising) amount of money for another console.
A pro is absolutely not necessary. The current generation will get new releases for years to come, and performance will be fine. You don’t need to upgrade until the next generation comes out, typically in 5-10 years, and then it’s once for that entire generation.
Even then your current games are usually backwards compatible, or you just have your old console to play those games.
and performance will be fine.
If you can’t have 60 FPS at the minimum I’m not interested in your motion blur cancer.
You don’t need to upgrade until the next generation comes out, typically in 5-10 years, and then it’s once for that entire generation.
That’s still more expensive than my mid range PC setups and does not include the needed TV & expensive games.
Even then your current games are usually backwards compatible, or you just have your old console to play those games.
Or I could just play everything on the same system indefinitely without having to hoard clunky consoles & peripherals.
The whole Pc GaMeS aRe ChEaPeR argument is completely moot at this point. Used games, not to mention sales, mean games are similarly priced.
As for peripherals, don’t get me started on monitors, keyboard, mouse, all that fancy but useless rainbow colored LED nonsense, etc. Never mind that you’re only using those monitors for your PC. Plus, there is no guessing if a game will work on your console. If it’s released for the console, it will work for the console. No settings management needed. No needing to consider upgrading hardware to squeeze out an extra 5 FPS.
Motion blur can be disabled in almost every game. And I do because it’s absolute ass. Guess what other platform also enables motion blur by default? PC.
But sure, go on convincing yourself that your $2000 PC is somehow cheaper than my $600 console, and that your 4K120FPS somehow makes a game more enjoyable. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go lend a game to a friend and borrow one from someone else. Hey by the way, Windows updated overnight and your drivers are fucked. Have fun troubleshooting that for the next few hours.
This is decades old console coping.
Plus the console is all you have to buy. No peripherals. A PS5 is less than a single GFX card and it comes with everything else.
Blackwell prices + this stupid fuckin tariff proposal = bad time for American gamers
Here’s to hoping AMD can wow us…
Here’s to hoping AMD can wow us…
Even if they have a compelling offering (which is a big if), it will likely be $30 - $50 cheaper (at most) than comparable Nvidia SKUs.
No way will they take a hit on margins, especially when the real money is in corporate GPUs.
AMD just announced that they’re not going to focus on high end cards anymore. So, probably no wowing coming from them.
