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[HeisenbergFX4]

Not really. No one needs a 9800X3D, nor does anyone need a 50XX series card,

 

[Lupin3]

I like my "cheap" 4070 more and more. Only downside is that it came with a free copy of Diablo 4.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

10gb is a no-go my dude

I'm still using a 3080 10Gb and haven't had any issues running games at 1440p high (even ultra) settings. I've not come across any game that I can't run and I think that's the point here. If games run well enough and you're happy with the performance then there's no need to upgrade.

 

[StereoVsn]

RTX 5070 has been pushed out. Allocation is so bad on the 5070Ti it is worse than the 5080.

What in the world is up with Nvidia and how do they get away with this stuff. This is why we need decent competition.

Just WTF all around.

Hey Jensen, in order for us to “buy more to save”, we need to actually be able to buy!

And yeah, Nvidia badly needs somebody to check them. I am hopeful next gen of home grown AI targeted hardware form all major hyperscalers will knock Nvidia back a notch.

 

[delirium trigger]

Not really. No one needs a 9800X3D, nor does anyone need a 50XX series card,

Exactly. You don't need the fastest cpu on the market to have a good gaming experience.

You can build a great pc for 800 bucks and play 1080p which is perfect fpr 24 inches.

People act like you need an 80 class card and an x3d chip to play games which is why it's so expensive. Most gamers play 1080p on a 60 class card. Walk into a Best Buy and generally that's what they're selling.

 

[CLW]

How much is a 5080 there for comparison?

$1400 ish

 

[dave_d]

And now they're showing up on Microcenter's web page too. Unfortunately the cheapest one is $900. (I probably would have been better off just buying a 4070ti super except I was unemployed for much of 2024.)

 

[simpatico]

They sure have been charging a lot lately for gaming.

Seems funny that PS5 Pro was being dunked on recently.

What goes around comes around I suppose.

Funny seeing people defend PC by stating you don't need the latest and greatest. Nobody needed a PS5 Pro either. Sony and console gaming as a whole still got dunked on. Why the double standard for PC? Seems like you got great joy out of the PS5 Pro hate but now you want to sweep this under the rug. Seems just like that. So odd. So strange. I wonder why.

You can play every game in the entire history of PC gaming with an AMD 6600xt and 5800x3D and fully stretch the legs of the hardware 100%. PS5Pro gets a small handful of games that are actually using the hardware and a lot of people have legit complaints about the implementation. One side forces the user to swim in a slurry of temporal stew, the other lets the user swim in anything they want. Also, the budget gaming PC owner is playing Bloodborne at 60fps.

 

[marjo]

To be fair right now pc gaming is the worst choice because of gpu prices and 9800x3d situation.

Our only hope is 9070 be a decent gpu and udna come to nvidia neck.

Are 9800x3d's still in short supply in some areas? Here in Ontario, they're readily available at MSRP. This is from the Canada Computers site:

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Are 9800x3d's still in short supply in some areas? Here in Ontario, they're readily available at MSRP. This is from the Canada Computers site:

Isn't that economy not doing, too great? I would expect Canada not to buy much because of its problems. I expect that in the U.S, too, to an extent.

 

[Hudo]

16 GB of VRAM for >$1000. Lmao.

Also, how fucked is it that people see this price and say "well, that's not bad." Holy shit, YES, it IS bad. That's not normal pricing at all for a card like this.

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

Not really. No one needs a 9800X3D, nor does anyone need a 50XX series card,

The 9800X3D was such a huge upgrade over my 5700X so I consider it money well spent. Immediate improvement in my 1% lows especially in Helldivers 2. The game feels completely smooth since this upgrade.

Whether you need a 50XX depends entirely on your target framerate and resolution. If you have a 4000 series GPU then I would consider the 5000 series an utter waste of time.

If you're rocking 10XX/20XX/30XX then the 5070Ti/5080 (and the 5090 if you want to go all out) could be a worthwhile upgrade if you game at 4K.

If you play 1440p then you could easily survive with a 3080 for the rest of the gen (thanks to DLSS transformer)