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hinch on 21 August 2020
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vivster said:
hinch said:

RTX 2080 Super not high-end now? I think you mean enthusiast (Ti/Titan). Unless I'm missing the sarcasm :P

Here what I made on PC part picker with a budget of $2000. Granted you can shuffle things around like cheaper PSU and case and HDD depending on what you need and spend the difference in a higher end CPU for a fairly small gain for gaming. But all are high end components.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vxVXjp

Meh. Not sure if I would've considered the 2080 high end even when it came out 2 years ago. The 2080ti still comfortably outperforms it by a good margin. Prices are a bit warped since the cards are already that old. The "end" in "high end" should mean something and when there is something after that "end" that is significantly stronger and still scales about the same on price/performance then what you have is probably not the "end". For example I would consider the highest non-Titan GPU as high end since it is very close in performance to a titan(the actual end) but it's way way cheaper. We'll see how expensive the new high end is but I doubt you'll be able to get it for under $1200.

I would also definitely not consider the picked CPU as high end. Let's call it elevated midrange because "low high end" sounds incredibly stupid.

Amd and Intel have their low (i3, R3) mid (i5, R5), high end (i7, R7) enthusiast ranges (i9, R9) This hasn't changed in the years I've been gaming on PC. Same with goes for GPU manufacturers. There are always high end range with one SKU that is the creme de la crop.

GTX 980 and 1080 was high end. And 980Ti/1080Ti was their TOTL cards for consumers, outside Titans. I wouldn't call an i7 or XX8X series mid range by any metric

This is first time I've heard someone say RTX 2080 was mid range. Its just weird concept to me O_o