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Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 (wccftech.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm on a 2080 or 2090 (I forget which). I thought I'd upgrade to the 40xx now that 5090s are out. I looked at the prices and absolutely not. The 5090s are around 500k JPY, and ordering from the US would work out to about the same with exchange, tax, and any possible tariff that exists this week. Salaries here are also much lower than in the west as well on average even for those of us in software.

4070s are still around 100k which is cheaper than last time I looked at 250k ish.

Price aggregator site in Japan if you want to play around: https://kakaku.com/pc/videocard/itemlist.aspx?pdf_Spec103=500 On the left, you'll see the cards to select and the prices are obvious on the screen.

[–] OmegaMan@lemmings.world 4 points 2 days ago

Don't think they made a 2090. 2080 or 2080 ti I guess.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Is this a news story from 4 years ago?

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

plus, i have a 3060. and it's still amazing.

don't feel the need to upgrade at all.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Happy with my used 4070ti super i paid 150 for after trading in my 2080ti. There is nothing to use your gpu on unless youre a kid and haven't seen the pattern of every aaa game bring literally the same game every year.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

me neither. best is a 1070. don't play newer 'demanding' games, nor do i have a system 'worthy' of a better card anyway.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, my 2080ti can run everything sans ray traced stuff perfectly, though I also haven't had any issues with Indiana Jones or Doom: The Dark Ages.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Akschually, Doom DA needs to have raytracing enabled at all times, and your vcard is in the first nvidia gen that has it. While 10xx and 20xx haven't shown much of a difference, and both series are still okay for average gaming, there's the planned divide vcard producers wanted. RTX IS ON ads visuals were fancy at best (imho) while consuming too much resources, and now there's the first game that doesn't function without it, pushing consumers to either updgrade their hardware or miss out on big hits. Not the first time it happened, but it gives a sense why there were a lot of media noise about that technology in the beginning.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why not just buy a cheaper one? X060 or X070 series is usually fine in price and runs everything at high enough settings. Flagship is for maxed out everything on 4k+ resolutions. And in those cases, everything else is larger and more expensive as well; the monitor needs to be 4k, huge ass PSU, large case to fit the PSU and card in, even the power draw and energy... costs just start growing exponentially.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm rocking a GTX 1660 and have no plans to upgrade. Ray-tracing is a scam and all the "AAA" titles that are too vram hungry for my card are not that attractive anyway.

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

980gt.
Though, due to circumstances, I've not played any games in about a year.
Before that I only really played Rocket League in the few years preceding. So if that still going when I do have time to play them I'll still be fine with my old GPU.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

If I keep playing the same games my current CPU and GPU will do me well for a long time

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

The PC industry has turned into a scuzzy hellscape for average joes that just want to have decent options at realistic prices. They don't even care about gaming anymore, it's about YouTube and BitcoinBruhzz now.

I've still got a still pretty decent setup (5800x3d 4070ti), but it's the last stand for this guy I'm afraid. Looking over the past decade or so, I've honestly had better gaming experiences on consoles for mere fractions of the price of a PC build. Mods and PC master race nonsense aside. Sure you don't need a subscription for online PC playing (I rarely play online), but you can barely get a processor for what a PS5 costs anymore. Let alone a video card, which is upwards of a lot of people's take home pay for a month, the way things are going.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Still rocking my 3060 ti since launch. Thinking of getting a 9060 XT.

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