True, but this mindset is why I've been stuck on a GTX 780 for years lol. I was going to buy the 20xx series, but with the 30xx around, the corner, I thought I should just wait. Bad decision. Not only were 30xx unobtainable, but so we're 20xx.
You're really stuck speculating on the whims of the market at the end of the day to assume that the 40xx series/RDNA3 aren't going to be plagued with the exact same supply issues as the 30xx series though I have no idea what it'll be like to launch expensive consumer goods in a recession.
Totally fair. I emulate a lot and some emulators play most nicely with Nvidia so it's been my go to for a while. I'm not sure about the current state of things with Vulkan being more prominent now, but Nvidia had been blowing AMD out of the water with OpenGL support on Windows which is what most emulation uses.
Yeah the one thing a new card would be good for is streaming or game recording. I can play a lot of games at max, but when I have the OBS replay buffer on for my tiktok videos, it knocks off like 30-80FPS
Honestly you just need to bite the bullet eventually, pretty much no game being put out in Current Year can actually max the GPUs also being put out in Current Year
Then there's Kenshi, a game released in 2013 that is to GPUs and SSDs what Dwarf Fortress is to CPUs.
There's also AAA games like Hunt Showdown with pisspoor optimization that can't get 60 FPS@4K with medium-high settings on hardware that came out 2 years after launch.
Not really; i have a 1060 and can run kenshi fine interestingly it is the cpu that i have to underclock; it runs prime stable for hours but somehow crashes in kenshi after 20 min. The gpu utilization is quite low and i get fin fps.
Weird, my graphics card is constantly at 90+% and there's still 10 second+ load times when characters are moving, over a minute if I'm loading into the swamp.
The loading times seem like a hardrive issue i used to have those a few years ago until my hardrive died and i got a solid state one. But it is wierd that you get such a high gpu usage. Are you playing in 2k maybe?
You'd think, but it's on a PCI 4 SSD, and the task manager rarely shows disk usage when the game starts chugging or loading in new areas after changing view.
it is wierd that you get such a high gpu usage. Are you playing in 2k maybe?
My plan is to wait for the last generation of stuff that will still all work together with my motherboard. I’ve got an x570, so I’ll wait until AM5 comes out and then buy the best AM4 chip.
Not only were 30xx unobtainable, but so we’re 20xx.
They weren't totally unobtainable, you could still camp out a discord and gamble once every couple weeks for a ~1/3 shot at a 3070/3060, or camp out a hardware center for a 3080.
True, but this mindset is why I've been stuck on a GTX 780 for years lol. I was going to buy the 20xx series, but with the 30xx around, the corner, I thought I should just wait. Bad decision. Not only were 30xx unobtainable, but so we're 20xx.
You're really stuck speculating on the whims of the market at the end of the day to assume that the 40xx series/RDNA3 aren't going to be plagued with the exact same supply issues as the 30xx series though I have no idea what it'll be like to launch expensive consumer goods in a recession.
I generally buy AMD so I'm just waiting to see if the next gen Raedon cards have decent ray tracing.
Totally fair. I emulate a lot and some emulators play most nicely with Nvidia so it's been my go to for a while. I'm not sure about the current state of things with Vulkan being more prominent now, but Nvidia had been blowing AMD out of the water with OpenGL support on Windows which is what most emulation uses.
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Yeah the one thing a new card would be good for is streaming or game recording. I can play a lot of games at max, but when I have the OBS replay buffer on for my tiktok videos, it knocks off like 30-80FPS
Then there's Kenshi, a game released in 2013 that is to GPUs and SSDs what Dwarf Fortress is to CPUs.
There's also AAA games like Hunt Showdown with pisspoor optimization that can't get 60 FPS@4K with medium-high settings on hardware that came out 2 years after launch.
Not really; i have a 1060 and can run kenshi fine interestingly it is the cpu that i have to underclock; it runs prime stable for hours but somehow crashes in kenshi after 20 min. The gpu utilization is quite low and i get fin fps.
Weird, my graphics card is constantly at 90+% and there's still 10 second+ load times when characters are moving, over a minute if I'm loading into the swamp.
The loading times seem like a hardrive issue i used to have those a few years ago until my hardrive died and i got a solid state one. But it is wierd that you get such a high gpu usage. Are you playing in 2k maybe?
You'd think, but it's on a PCI 4 SSD, and the task manager rarely shows disk usage when the game starts chugging or loading in new areas after changing view.
4K
4k is a lot of pixels, i cant imagine you can run many games in there at 60fps even with a 3090.
My plan is to wait for the last generation of stuff that will still all work together with my motherboard. I’ve got an x570, so I’ll wait until AM5 comes out and then buy the best AM4 chip.
They weren't totally unobtainable, you could still camp out a discord and gamble once every couple weeks for a ~1/3 shot at a 3070/3060, or camp out a hardware center for a 3080.
The only reliable way to get a 30XX was bundled with a whole new PC build. That was actually pretty easy to do.