Digital Foundry: £100 Graphics Card vs Next-gen consoles

[Munkeh111]

Scoobes said:

Munkeh111 said:
So it's not quite a fair comparison as your £100 graphics card will likely find itself in a £400+ system. You would also only expect this parity to last another few months and teams get more time and more experience working on next-gen hardware

The problem is as a PC gamer you always want more. My 670 could provide nice 1080p gaming, but once I can't hit ultra and keep the frame rate up, I'm going to want more power rather than just lowering the settings. Star Citizen is going to ruin me

To be fair, the X1 is £400+ so that actually works out quite nicely, and I also doubt the R7 260X would last the entire gen, but for not much more than that £100, you could get a fairly future proof GPU.

@ bolded

Lol, that's true of me as well but at some point you have to realise you're just getting greedy

But 4k..... I am unexpectedly proud of myself for not spending any money on my PC for nearly 2 years. Given that I normally replace my laptop every 2-3 years, it seems reasonable that I can give myself a new graphics card every few years