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sc94597 on 11 February 2015
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vivster said:
sc94597 said:
vivster said:
It's definitely not getting cheaper for PC gamers. Most of the current gen games run like shit on ultra and high end cards. We're not gonna have much fun until the devs try to code proper for PC.

We can't even think about 4K right now without massive graphical downgrades and multi GPUs. Wouldn't be surprised if we're still not at 4k in 5 years with single GPUs.

I take it you hadn't built a PC when the PS360 released? An 8800 GT (high-end card) cost about $350 (GTX about $450) and the card couldn't run Crysis (a 2007 game) at much more than medium-high, 900p, 30fps. The cards today run their respective games fine, in retrospect.  

 

Crysis is a horrible example for anything. But if you want to play that game.

Crysis 3, a 2 year old game, does a maximum of 40 fps on ultra 1080p with a GTX980, aka the strongest single GPU on the market right now. That one will set you back over $500 without even reaching 60fps.

How is that cheaper?

Or we're reasonable people and take some of the better optimized games and not some code that Crytek shat into a text editor.

Far Cry 4 and DAI were some of the better running games and still; a 970 is minimum requirement if you want to run it at a stable 60fps on ultra in Far Cry 4. DAI is a bit worse with a 980 barely reaching 60fps on average.

This is just the start of the gen and there will be a lot of unoptimized shit that can't be run by any high end card. Nope it's definitely not cheaper. Then again, if you want cheap, why use a PC?

And how well does Crysis 3 run at medium-high? Exactly my point. If you wanted to run top of the line games at ultra 1080p (or even 900p) 60fps at the start of the 7th generation you had no other option than to SLI or Crossfire top of the line cards. So being able to buy a single card that maxes out unoptimized games is impressive. 

I used Crysis because its an example of a hardware-pushing unoptimized game.  How about I use a less demanding game. 

or an even less demanding one than that. 

Also remember that we are talking about GPU's alone. Motherboards and CPU's were much more expensive back then too. You wouldn't be able to find a $100-$150 CPU that ran games as well as an i3 or AMD's equivalents. 

edit: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2222 

I was wrong about the prices btw. 

8800 Ultra - $830

8800 GTX - $600-650

8800 GTS - $400-450

And if you consider inflation, they cost even more in 2015 dollars.