I wish there was more backlash about this.
Some of tech YouTubers like Linus Tech Tip mention the power usage, but meme about it.
I wish there was more backlash about this.
Some of tech YouTubers like Linus Tech Tip mention the power usage, but meme about it.
Going by Tim Rogers, if you ask on the pcmasterrace subreddit, they would probably recommend something like the 3060 or whatever, but gamers will buy a 3080 because they believe they're futureproofing and pat each other on the back for their savvy purchase, because one day they might get a 4k 120hz monitor, not today though, 1440p is an acceptable compromise and I'm already on the hook for a grossly inflated 3080, but imagine if you got a 4k 120hz monitor in the future.
I sorta get the future proofing argument. I built a machine in 2014 with a 970gtx and it still holds up today, if i had the 980, it'd be another year or two before I actually noticed performance hits rather than hitting limitations right now.
In that 8 years, I also went from dual 1080 monitors to dual 1440 monitors. Who knows if one of these monitors would die in the next 8-10 years and I opt for some 4k monitors because the price came way down.
There's nothing I hate more than buying computers, so if I can shell out a little extra money now for a couple extra years of not thinking about my computer, I'm gonna do it.
I mean it used to be true that future proofing could be good if you were building a brand new rig. I built mine for about 1500 almost 10 years ago now and it still runs most things on max settings, even gets close on RDR2 but I have to back off some of the more intense settings. Things have slowed down so much now though that it likely won't matter.
I think people buy a GPU and expect it to last at least one console gen, the expectations for this one is driving games with ray tracing, 4K and maybe 120fps if possible, which is quite a leap from last gen, hardware-wise at least.
Yeah raytracing is cool but what I meant is that going forward I don't think future proofing will be really possible since there aren't going to be many leaps forward that don't include major hardware innovations that we cannot foresee.