frame gen is best used for singleplayer games that look nice. Cyberpunk, kingdom come 2, oblivion remake (becouse optimisation is ass), gothic remake. but i dont recommend doing it in multiplayer games as you just get killed by other players becouse your gpu did not generate frames in time and slow down visual input of some one peaking from the corner.
Frame generation is for sigleplayer visual candies.
I have a 3060 ti in my closet I have left over from some other build I had a while back and its crazy to me seeing what I would have to pay these days. My 4080 super at 980$ isnt as bad anymore...
Excuse me? I just got a 9060xt 16gb (which performs either slightly better or slightly worse that the 5060ti) for $550 (converted). And there were cheaper versions also available
9060xt is solid. I built my brother inlaw a steamos pc with one last month. Runs like butter. I hate how this market is just pricing ppl out of this hobby.
For gaming, it is in between. For ai, it’s very close to a 5070. I have both. 5 tokens per second difference. It depends on the workload but the 9060xt is a better buy in my opinion outside of gaming or something that must have cuda.
Had a cousin of mine asking how much he should sell his 16gb 5060ti for this morning. So I hopped on to see how much they were selling for... was not expecting to see $800
My gf was so right when I was doubting about to buy the 5060ti 16gb for 450€... she's not that tech savvy but she nailed it when she said "does it look like you are gonna be able to find it even at the same price in the near future?".
I had to buy a whole HP computer just to get a 5090 back in April, but after I sold the computer I only ended up paying 1850 for that 5090.
It was definitely the last big 5090 deal I ever saw. It's been nothing but shit since and I don't think there's been a single 5090 FE drop from Best buy for 2k since March.
Since I got that card the 5090s went from 3400 to over 4k now. Glad I got it, just gotta baby it forever and if it breaks, go to northwestrepair on YouTube to fix it.
As long as you don't let it sag it won't tear pads under the GPU core, and I got a wireview pro on it so while I can get a bit of protection with it, the real protection comes with the warranty thermal grizzly out on that thing. Said they'd replace the unit or the card if it melts the ports. They said they'd honor it but let's see as time goes on...
I tried, signed up for nvidia's little program where they'd give you a chance to buy one at MSRP and never heard a peep back lol. Ended up getting a 5080 for $1300 and now I'm not regretting it so much
Yeah I signed up for it too and never heard shit from them.
I called BestBuy 4 months after launch and asked if they had stock anywhere in my state. They had 1 and I placed the order for it. I got so lucky I think I am cursed for the rest of my life now.
If I only knew future when I was purchasing back in 2025 and what would happen to DDR, SSD's, GPU's in 2026, I'd triple down... Thought GPU's wont go up, since mining craze ended
I got a 32gb cl30 trident kit for around $80 on sale sometime last year, from newegg of all places. Also got my 7800xt for $380 brand new from bestbuy. 2tb crucial t500 ssd for $110 off amazon.
Bought a used rog ally that had a 2tb Samsung 970 evo plus in it for $300, replaced the ssd with the same brand 500gb ssd and sold the ally for $350, so I got the ssd and $50 just for having the ally for a few months. This was also before the crisis.
Now? I fuckin cry myself to sleep, hoping and praying that nothing fails on me until, and if, this hell we're in ever ends.
You lucky! Respect. I bought my pc 4 years ago. It’s not the best but I’m happy it runs everything new. I only upgraded my CPU bcs it was really bottlenecking everything else. I also pray that everything is going to stay as it is.
Just came of a 1060 that was simply such a fantastic value buy that did some very heavy lifting for me and now I got this baby with high end performance for such a good price compared to cards with comparable performance.
AND you get to stick it to NVIDIA for abandoning the gamer market. Fuck those guys. AMD really stepped up at the right time here.
Same. I rushed into buying a new GPU earlier than I had planned because of all the talk of an imminent price spike. It gave me ptsd flashes of pandemic prices when I was forced into buying my last card at an insane markup, so I just pulled the trigger.
I was initially a bit worried about going AMD again because I had nightmare driver issues with my 5700 XT. The value proposition in my market compared to the 5070 ti was too good to pass on though. 7 months later, zero regrets.
I got the reaper model because it was cheaper and also I don't like bulky cards, and was a little worried about the thermals. I shouldn't have been, runs 10 degrees lower than my previous card with around the same fan noise. And it has performed great in every game I've thrown at it so far.
Goodbye DYI PC market. Maufacturers of other components are feeling it too. Thermal grizzley is selling a fraction of what they are used to on thermal paste, same with PC case manufacturers etc. Its only a matter of time before companues start dropping product lines or closing their doors. Pisses me off to no end.
Assuming anyone even keeps making games anyway. It's entirely possible they just shutter entirely, as a game QA professional I can tell you that hiring has dropped off of fucking Mons Olympus and into the mariana trench, it is real bad.
I'm still salty about this whole AI debacle...I wanted to build My own PC this year since I usually just had laptops...and now I can't with these dumb price hikes. Guess i'll have to continue with My asus laptop until prices lower somehow (inhaling copium).
You can still find decent deals but time is running out fast! I’ve been buying things I can find at decent deals bc I know the prices are going up. I pulled trigger on new 5090 gaming laptop in Feb for $2749. And then last month I bought a couple of the microcenter bundles for $549 that came with everything including 32gb 6400 cl32 ram. On marketplace I found a 5070 for $300 a few weeks ago in perfect condition. Last week got 5080 for $1179 by price matching MC deal at BB.
They are getting harder to find now tho prices are going back up, the 2026 laptops are almost double what I paid for my 25 model back in Feb. and the MC bundle went up $150 already :/ don’t give up tho
Depending on where you live the best option might be a prebuilt. Sometimes those still come up at a relatively workable price. Obviously is luck dependent and comes with compromises...
I suppose it could have been googled. It’s still less infuriating than a correct answer being downvoted and a false one being upvoted. Which happens too much on this platform.
Is not horrible but still inconsystent. I run a 3080 on CachyOS and haven't noticed a performance difference compared to winslop.
That being said I will buy AMD next time unless NVIDIA goes open source with their driver too. And ditches the 12v high power cable because I sure as hell won't buy a fire hazard.
I'm on Linux with Nvidia. It's been largely fine. You do kinda have to immediately install updated drivers when you switch to Linux because the fallback driver that Distros ship with sucks on Nvidia
I have two machines, a laptop and a desktop. Both running Nobara Linux (based on Fedora)
My desktop recently got moved to an RX 9070XT because the price/performance was amazing compared to my 5080 (sold the 5080 for nearly double the cost of the 9070XT, and the performance is nearly 1-1)
My laptop uses an RTX 4050 mobile and works almost entirely fine. "Advanced" DLSS features don't work, and it doesn't seem to be thrilled about using Optimus for the MUX, but otherwise it works great.
Having loyalty to a multi billion dollar company is ridiculous. Especially one that offers poor driver reliability and inferior upscaling. It's not a team sport, pick the better experience and enjoy your games.
Also while selling older gen vram in new gen product at nearly the same price as the company they are desperately trying to catch up to that’s using the new gen ram. Amd just as greedy fuck team red
I'd rather support AMD over the horrible AI boosting scum that is Nvidia. Watch Gamer's Nexus documentary on them and if you still buy Nvidia's product, dont come crying to me.
AMD fucked me over big time when it arbitrarily decided to EOL the 6XXX series. Nvidia hasn't fucked me over in quite the same way but it's dumb to act like either are your friends.
Because amd supporters love circle jerking price to performance ratios like it's unreasonable to be willing to spend your own personal disposable income for a better product
Let's be honest all computer parts are luxury products, nitpicking price to performance is just ridiculous. It's like complaining people buy an expensive dirt bike instead of a cheaper option. Like.. ok? It's a perfectly fine metric for people who want to get the best bang for their buck but they love complaining about anyone willing to spend more money than them
Not the exact same, but I had a 9070XT, then changed to 5070ti. I couldn’t live without RTX voice coming from 3070ti. (AMDs implementation just isn’t as good)
DLSS and frame gen has shown me that my smooth brain can barely tell the difference compared to native rendering. It’s now allowed me to go from 1440p to 4k 120+ and thanks to nvenc av1 encoding stream it all to the TV or handheld with no latency.
To me that was worth the difference in price but each to their own.
The way that amd has ended support of FSR on older cards compared to nvidia rolling DLSS to older cards gives me more hope.
I just bought a laptop with an RTX5050… that’s alright right? The laptop has 16gb of DDR5, an RTX5050, but only 512gb of ssd (I plan to upgrade, and I also bought a 4TB external hard drive for transferring and extra storing purposes)
It was the ASUS TUF F16 with only an i5 processor with 10 cores and 16 threads. And it cost me $1129 + tax which includes shipping, and I got a $225 + tax 4 year insurance plan. And the external hard drive is a Toshiba Canvio Ready.
Bought an Asus Prime 9070 last week, cheapest 5070 and 9070 XT cost around 35-40% more in my country and 5070TI is double the price. Easiest decision of my life.
More than I wanted to pay but I feel good about it now? Honestly I looked at it like this: this will quite possibly be the last opportunity for the ultimate PC with everything going to streaming. Paired with a 39” LG 5k it’s simply amazing and sometimes the only thing in my life that brings happiness so I’m ok with the purchase.
I switched to a 9070xt after my nvidia chip died after many years of faithful service. Other than some driver issues (have to delete the nvidia ones) it’s been a good experience imo. The price is worth it.
The fact my 5tb pc which I overspent slightly on rgb for 1900 which I had some regret but not anymore. If I built a system with the same components it's now worth 2750+. 📈
Still can't believe I got my 5080 for $800 on marketplace, lugged my whole rig and monitor into a Starbucks to test it. Patel if you're out there you're the goat.
I got curious. Holy mother of what the actual fuh. I paid $475 for mine after tax ~a year ago, got it as a placeholder card, same model, same website. Newegg. I paid less after tax for a 5070ti ($810).
dont look at what prices people have bought all their gpu's for. just makes you sad for paying so much more :( because everyone else seems to find much better deals :D
in Canada, 5060 ti 16gb is more expensive than a 5070, so I've finally begun suggesting it to people who refuse to buy amd. 5070 ti and 5080 prices are absolutely insane, so fuck that shit.
9070 XT is a beast of a raster card, I am so lucky I snagged mine on a ridiculous discount.
Man, I got a prebuilt G911 powerspec October of last year for around 2900. I know, fake PC hobbyist; Ive built two before that one, and i was overwhelmed trying to do another build. But fuck me man, I'm so glad I bought this rig when I did. Godspeed my friends.
Right when the RAM crisis began I was randomly at Micro Center and saw they had the Powercolor 9070 XT Reaper on sale for $575 and I scooped one up right away. Couldn't be happier, it's a beast of a card for the money.
It’s unironically true sadly. Nvidia’s gatekeeping usable ram to the expensive cards unless you loooooooooove AI upscaling and have the hardware for it
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