Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff ...
by 15charlimit on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:37PM
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A high-end graphics card is $700+, the 1070 you mentioned is toward the upper end of the "mid tier" market. Cards like the 1060 and RX480 are considered low tier.
Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff ...
by TulliusCicero on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:46PM
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This is nowhere close to true. A 1060 is only "low tier" for someone who subscribes to /r/pcmasterrace; for regular PC gamers it's a solid mid-range card.
Also remember that the GeForce 3, when launched, cost $600, which would be $800 today (and this was a consumer card equivalent to the 1080, not a professional card like the Titans).
After adjusting for inflation? I'm gonna need a citation on that. This number sounds bogus.
> A modern graphic card nowadays costs 500$, whereas in 2011 you got it or 200$.
A high-end graphics card (like a 1070) costs $500. A mid-range "good enough" card (like an RX 480) costs $200. It's a segmented market, and it was exactly the same in 2011. Again, your claims are highly suspect and I want to see some numbers backing them up.
> And CPUs got more expensive again as well.
That's because AMD released a garbage fire architecture in Bulldozer, and Intel, no longer having meaningful competition, did what they always do and jacked up prices. Boo on Intel, but there's nothing macroeconomic about it.