GeForce RTX 40 Series

Re:GeForce RTX 40 Series by fsn4dN69ey on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:10PM (#32915629)

I think it's fine honestly - remember we have inflation, semiconductor shortage, and 3090s retailed at the same price like two years ago. Nobody honestly needs this level of hardware for "gaming", like honestly 12-24gb vram? I'm not saying you shouldn't buy it if you want it but it's definitely a luxury product or for non-partnered AI work.

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Re:GeForce RTX 40 Series by njdvndsjkv on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @05:14PM (#32917876)

I think this hits the nail its head. Nobody "deserves" a top of the line gaming GPU. And if most gamers can't afford it, game developers will not develop for it as a minimum. Especially for multiplayer games where the total number of players in integral to the game being played at all (which is why many are free to play).

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Re:GeForce RTX 40 Series by dudeinhawaii on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:01PM (#32916315)

This is not true unfortunately. For high-end 4k gaming you can easily become memory throttled on 8 or 10GB of VRAM. This is the performance cliff you see on cards like the RTX 3070 8GB card. Granted, it's not for everyone, but it's certainly something 4k gamers would want.

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Re:GeForce RTX 40 Series by vanviegen on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:17PM (#32916507)

So.. you're confirming it's a luxury product? One doesn't need 4k to enjoy a game.

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Re:GeForce RTX 40 Series by mechanical_bear on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:05PM (#32917068)

One doesn’t need to game.

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Re:GeForce RTX 40 Series by brokenmachine on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @07:20PM (#32919064)

I bought an 8Gb GPU recently and was slightly surprised to find that I needed to turn down settings to save vram in newer games.

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Re:GeForce RTX 40 Series by fomine3 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:22PM (#32919529)

Some Mod users and VRChat users really wants VRAM because it's not optimized well, but don't need highend

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