| Chazore said: I mean my man, this is why I went with 1080ti lol, I could have gone for a 1060 for sure, but at that time I was pulling a Yuri and just going for it (but looking back it's still cheaper than what Yuri paid for his 4090 lol, still the same idea though). I just feel like the mid to lower tiers are going to heavily rely more and more on that there KFC DLSS they got cooking in the fryer. Like we've already seen what it does for a 4090, tons of frames, but like, let's think about what it's going to do, realistically for a 460 with 8gb VRAM... Probably over 100ish fps, with RT at medium? (no way that thing does what a 4090 can with DLSS 3 and Cyberpunks path tracing, it'll do much worse, let's be real). I just feel like Nvidia has fucked this gen of theirs up, both pricing wise and hw worse, and their hyper, galaxy level focus on DLSSS being their main perf crux tells me that these cards are utter tripe without that mystic tech (which I feel I'm right to refer to as a mere band-aid, because we've all seen what perf metrics are like without it, it's garbage most of the time you use regular brute force metrics). I hope you're cool with your purchase, Hinch. I'm just salty and mad at nvidia's pricing and greed the past few gens, and I'm acting old man on the porch, because Nvidia is going soft in the head with their focus on tech rather than good old fashioned elbow grease (brute force). Also I can't with Nvidia releasing the 90 series. It was already abd enough when the Titans came around, that I started questioning the 80 series, but now it's made apparent that the 80 series is the 70 series and so on, so you get the idea on how they've been fucking around with the whole stack for nearly a decade now. |
Yeah you did good and got a golden card. I doubt Nvidia will ever release a GPU of that calibur again at that price point. Still holds up really well today. Moreso when you factor in the advances in upscaling tech like FSR and XeSS.
Yup, idd they are heavily relying on software this generation to sell consumer grade GPU'. And marketing it to kind of make up for the deficit in actual meaningful gen on gen upgrades. Which is a little strange considering they are also offering a 16GB card on the lower end. But it also kind of helps with higher end stuff when it comes to getting playable experiences when it comes to using RT. Really though, DLSS 3 shouldn't be THE main selling point of their cards nor power consumption and should be delivering better, more meaningful performance uplift, just like every other gen.
What bothers me is the intentional gimping of specs and eregious and frankly misleading naming for both RTX 4000 and RX 7000 series cards. Like you said, many of the cards belong in totally different tiers and some downright misleading. That and the premium Nvidia/AMD tax we've seen the past few launches.
We can only hope that next generation AMD actually delivers. Intel makes a big splash with Arc cards - Battlemage, Celestial and all. And Nvidia actually tries to not be such an arsehole when it comes to Blackwell in terms of, well everything outside the very top end. Hopefully all of the above.
And cheers.. I mean, its still expensive for what it is but honestly needed a upgrade and didn't want to go low end. Might as well enjoy some gaming on PC gaming without (so much) compromise. Shame about the wallet lol.
Last edited by hinch - on 18 May 2023
