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2023 was the year that GPUs stood still (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] trag468@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

I just "upgraded" from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 4060 Ti 16Gb, but only because I was building a PC for my boyfriend and gave him the 1080. I'm really not seeing a noticeable difference in frame rate on 1440p.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

CP77, at least before the upgrade (haven't checked since then) ran perfectly... acceptable on my 4G 5500 XT. Back when I bought it (just before the price hikes) it was the "RX 590 performance but less watts and RDNA" option, the RX 590 hit the market in 2017. And I'm quite sure that people still rocking it are, well, still rocking it. Developers might be using newer and fancier features but I'll expect they'll continue to support that class of cards for quite some while, you don't want to lose out on millions of sales because millions don't want to pay for overpriced GPUs. Allthewhile you can get perfectly fine graphics with those cards, if you look back pretty much all 201x titles hold up well nowadays.

Due to ML workloads I've been eyeing the Arc (cheapest way to get 16G and it's got some oomph) but honestly so far I couldn't get myself to buy an Intel product that isn't a NIC, would break a life-long streak. A system RAM upgrade is definitely in the pipeline, though, DDR4 has gotten quite cheap. It's gotten to a point where I'd recommend 64G simply because 32G sticks are the cheapest per GB (and you probably have two memory controllers).