• @nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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    58 months ago

    Is AMD finally realizing that unless they lower prices their tenuous hold on the GPU market is going to slip away entirely?

    I’d give it 50% odds at best.

  • Bakkoda
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    58 months ago

    Looking at prices, when my 2080 ti dies the next cheapest option is a steam deck.

    • Orvorn
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      38 months ago

      As a fellow 2080ti owner I love my Steam Deck.

      • @notaviking@lemmy.world
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        28 months ago

        Like I am also looking at how to upgrade and damn these handhelds look like such a win win. Full gaming system for the cost of a single decent GPU

    • @DdCno1@beehaw.org
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      08 months ago

      I would suggest looking into a used Nvidia card instead. Something like an RTX 2080 or 3080 (or one of their variants), depending on your budget. DLSS alone makes these vastly superior to anything AMD has on offer.

      • Gamma
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        18 months ago

        That’s a great idea, thank you! I can probably get a decent deal too

        • @DdCno1@beehaw.org
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          28 months ago

          I bought an RTX 2080 last year for around 200 bucks. It’s still very competent at 1440p. There are only a few games that lock away the highest texture settings due to this card only having 8 GB of VRAM.

          • Gamma
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            18 months ago

            Considering I’m still on 6GB I think I’ll take whatever I can get 😅

            • @DdCno1@beehaw.org
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              28 months ago

              A 2080 is still more powerful than base PS5 and Xbox Series X, so it’ll likely do fine for the rest of this console generation.

              What’s the rest of your hardware like? I’m asking, because a slow CPU can rather drastically limit the performance of a GPU.

              • Gamma
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                18 months ago

                I rebuilt just after the pandemic so that’s good, graphics cards were still too expensive though so I kept my college card from the previous build