MSI and ASUS hike GeForce RTX 50 series prices in official stores, now up to $3,409 for RTX 5090

[bassturd@lemmy.world]

Either devs are going to have to start finding ways to keep next gen games functioning properly on my 2080ti, or I'm going to have to find a different hobby if AMD follows suite. I will absolutely not be coming close to paying for anything on that scale.

[9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world]

$3409 for some proprietary drivers on my PC? No thanks.

[pineapplepizza@lemm.ee]

2080 will play more than a lifetime supply of indie games. No need to continue supporting anti consumer AAA games

[themachinestops@discuss.tchncs.de]

Or just move to a a console, the quality might not be the same, but it is way cheaper. This is one of the reasons people by consoles, they are cheaper and the games are optimized for it.

[cheesenoodle@lemmy.world]

Aren't these the same cards that have been self destructing during driver updates?

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

Especially for such slim margins of improvement over the 4000 series.

[robotzap10000@feddit.nl]

You can get very acceptable performance for fractions of the price of a scalped 5090.

[bakkoda@sh.itjust.works]

Stop. Buying. Nvidia.

[jordanz@lemmy.world]

I’d be questioning the sanity of a gamer that needs to buy something from every generation of card released(I don’t understand buying a phone yearly either). If they use it to turn a profit and gaming is a convenient side benefit then fine. That or they just have larger than average discretionary funds.

I went from a Titan X(2015) to a 3080(2020). It’s 2025 now and the 3080 is still doing just fine. I upgrade when something I want to play doesn’t perform well…I’m not there yet.

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

My desktop is still running a 1060, I got it when the 3000 series had just dropped. I've got my pal's old OCd 1080 sitting on the sidelines waiting for me to get all the bits for water-cooling put together. The 1060 runs everything I've thrown at it. It might not run new new things at photorealistic quality, but stable frames and good enough quality that it doesn't look like shit. Once I've got a loop put together for the 1080 the 1060 is going into my media server to take over transcoding from the 970 I had before the 1060.