Whole graphics cards market is absolute shitshow and has been for several years now. Piss poor availability, bullshit MSRP prices no one can buy anything at, lackluster performance gains and worst of all, absolutely idiotic real world prices. 1000€ for a somethingsomething 70 card from NVIDIA is just absolutely insane. This is just out of control and this is what will actually collapse the PC gaming industry as whole, not consoles, handhelds or laptops. This greedy bullshit NVIDIA is doing. And AMD is basically forced to follow, they just make their “flagship” few bucks cheaper because they are second best option atthe moment.
The counter argument to this is Intel’s B570 which goes for about $300 where I live (full out of pocket price).
That’s not too bad at all. I haven’t had a chance to try Intel’s dGPUs (to evaluate their driver quality), but this does seem to be a compelling option.
Issue is, I need something more powerful. B570 is slower than my 4 years old RTX 3080… I’d pay up to 800€ for RTX 5070Ti, but not 1200. Waiting to see how RX 9070XT works out, but I bet it’ll be around there with performance and price of 1200€ as well. Which is why all of it is stupid.
Some newer games are starting to run slow and I also have 240Hz monitor so I kinda need higher framerate. VRAM is probably slowly becoming and issue too.
For higher end dGPUs, there will likely never be much price competition (I would love to be wrong).
I am probably going to stick with my 3080 until the 7000 series. It does what I need it to, with the only issue being 10 GB VRAM for running local LLMs, but that’s not too much of a problem.
I’ve decided to hold on to my 3080 too. 4080 was stupid and 5080 is no different. Hopes are for 9070XT if it matches 5070Ti and isn’t idiotically priced and actually obtainable, maybe. I don’t mind Radeons, have had several of them in the past.
Whole graphics cards market is absolute shitshow and has been for several years now. Piss poor availability, bullshit MSRP prices no one can buy anything at, lackluster performance gains and worst of all, absolutely idiotic real world prices. 1000€ for a somethingsomething 70 card from NVIDIA is just absolutely insane. This is just out of control and this is what will actually collapse the PC gaming industry as whole, not consoles, handhelds or laptops. This greedy bullshit NVIDIA is doing. And AMD is basically forced to follow, they just make their “flagship” few bucks cheaper because they are second best option atthe moment.
The counter argument to this is Intel’s B570 which goes for about $300 where I live (full out of pocket price).
That’s not too bad at all. I haven’t had a chance to try Intel’s dGPUs (to evaluate their driver quality), but this does seem to be a compelling option.
Issue is, I need something more powerful. B570 is slower than my 4 years old RTX 3080… I’d pay up to 800€ for RTX 5070Ti, but not 1200. Waiting to see how RX 9070XT works out, but I bet it’ll be around there with performance and price of 1200€ as well. Which is why all of it is stupid.
But why do you want to change the 3080? Is it because of the VRAM?
Some newer games are starting to run slow and I also have 240Hz monitor so I kinda need higher framerate. VRAM is probably slowly becoming and issue too.
For higher end dGPUs, there will likely never be much price competition (I would love to be wrong).
I am probably going to stick with my 3080 until the 7000 series. It does what I need it to, with the only issue being 10 GB VRAM for running local LLMs, but that’s not too much of a problem.
I’ve decided to hold on to my 3080 too. 4080 was stupid and 5080 is no different. Hopes are for 9070XT if it matches 5070Ti and isn’t idiotically priced and actually obtainable, maybe. I don’t mind Radeons, have had several of them in the past.
Perfect summary here. Let’s hope Intel keeps bringing their A-game with their GPUs to capture the low/mid end market