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[Gamers Nexus] Paper Launch (youtu.be)
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[–] 30 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I don't get why people are so keen on handing over such a huge amount of money just for bragging rights. The midrange is perfectly fine for playing any game these days. Those top end GPUs are getting an absolutely inordinate amount of attention compared to the relevance they have to most people.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    As someone who does VR in flight sims on one of the least optimized games (DCS) I can see the allure. Aside from that one niche though, I can’t think of many uses for a 90 series card though

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Another problem is how big games are made now, they are made (relatively) quickly and are very underperformant. So while GPUs 2, 3 generations ago could be running beautiful games at beautiful framerates, instead they run like ass. Nvidia wants them to rely on their DLSS shit to give people a reason to keep buying their GPUs every cycle. So people feel like they need to upgrade, when they really don't, instead they should stop buying these poorly made games.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yup, my 6650 XT is perfectly fine, and my SO has a 6700 XT. Both are way more than we need, and we paid $200-300 for them on sale. Why get the top end? Mine is roughly equivalent to current consoles, so I doubt I'm missing out on much except RTX, but I also don't care enough about RTX to 10x my GPU cost.

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