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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by lmm on Monday November 24, 2025 @09:25PM (#46041748)
> Some times I think people with this mentality would be happier if the top of the line GPU models were never released. If nVidia stopped at their mid-range cards and didn't offer anything more, the complaints would go away even though we're not actually better off with fewer options.

If the result was that games were made and optimised for mid-range cards, maybe regular folks actually would be better off.

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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by alex43578 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:32AM (#46043246)
Excluding a few poorly-optimized recent releases, what games can't run on like a 3070?
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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by nottorp on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @04:04AM (#46043879)
3070 isn't mid range.

Low end is ryzen integrated graphics now, xx60 is mid range at best. Maybe even xx50 if those still exist.

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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by sofixa on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:36AM (#46045649)
> xx60 is mid range at best. Maybe even xx50 if those still exist

"It's mid range if it exists" doesn't make sense.

Also you're missing that they're talking about 3070, a card from 2020 (5 years ago), 2 generations behind this year's 50xx series. The 30xx matters more than the xx70 here. It was an upper midrange card when it came out, and it's solidly midrange for Nvidia's product lineup today. You can have cheaper and decent just fine (integrated Ryzens like you mentioned are fine for 1080p gaming on most titles).

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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by nottorp on Thursday November 27, 2025 @04:44AM (#46067554)
> it's solidly midrange for Nvidia's product lineup today

If we're talking performance. Not price.

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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by caycep on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:52AM (#46059472)
Well...Cyberpunk for example. It will run on a 3070 but look like shit...on my 4k monitor, if I want the gorgeous photorealism of the game, the $2000 (formerly $700 pre-crypto/AI) GPU still gets about ~40 FPS with some stuttering if you don't turn on the fake AI generated frames...
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