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What graphic card do you own?

Crispy said:
(with apologies to pseudopsycho)

Now is a bad time to buy a graphics card. Both Red and Green teams will be releasing their new architectures this year, which (finally) will be built on a smaller fabrication process. This will probably mean a doubling of effective graphics power at the same price point/power draw, compared to the current generation. There hasn't been a leap like this in a long long time. Worth waiting for.
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With hindsight, I'm still glad I bought my 980Ti when I did (a month or two before you wrote this). It's still going strong (as you'd expect), and I was never going to buy one of the founders cards. I do intend to go for the 1080Ti at some point, maybe towards the end of the year.

The only wrong time to buy is when you can't afford it and/or it doesn't meet your needs.
 
I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, which from what I can gather is good enough to run modern games on decent settings.
 
I've been playing around with some photogrammetry software on my laptop and it's complaining about the lack of an NVIDIA graphics card...

Would it be possible to acquire one of these cheaply and install it on my laptop without too much difficulty?
 
tommers said:
We're well into the world of diminishing returns aren't we. I mean how much more powerful do they need to be?
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Ever since interpolation/DLSS/FSR/etc came in, there's been a lot less cause for upgrades. With DLSS I can run almost anything high/ultra settings and still get 60fps. As things progress, I'll just change DLSS from Quality to Balanced and keep the same same framerate for a quality difference that it's unlikely I'll even see.
 
Chz said:
Ever since interpolation/DLSS/FSR/etc came in, there's been a lot less cause for upgrades. With DLSS I can run almost anything high/ultra settings and still get 60fps. As things progress, I'll just change DLSS from Quality to Balanced and keep the same same framerate for a quality difference that it's unlikely I'll even see.
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Well yes. I don't think I have ever looked at one of those before and after screenshots and seen any difference.
 
UnderOpenSky said:
I've been wondering if I can justify a 5070ti :D
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I've been thinking that in a year or two a used 4070Ti Super might be on the cards, just for getting out of the 8GB VRAM hole. Indiana Jones being the first thing that can actually use more than 8GB for decent reasons, rather than just being tuned poorly.
 
Second hand GPUs can be a great buy. My 3080 has certainly done me proud. I should probably reign it in a bit, I think spend too much time staring at Reddit where people seem to constantly upgrade. I do spend far more time playing games then I used to, but still.
 
I've always been super wary of 2nd hand GPUs (an CPUs) - who knows how well they've been looked after?
 
Now exclusively using my new lappy for gaming, I have an RTX4060. No idea if that's terribly good or terribly bad (I used to understand this shit but no longer do), but it does mean the blasted thing lasts for about 30mins when not plugged in. Haven't felt the need to look at docking options to connect my TV/monitors yet, but will, so time will tell.
 
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