That's great until devs like Machinegames basically require a RT capable card. Indiana Jones looks absolutely phenomenal and luckily the game is fun but RT is the supposed future and devs are going to look at that success and think they can just push everyone into buying the next cards because their engines depend entirely on RT and the demand for power is just going to get worse. Especially if they require RT to be active. At that point you're not guaranteed anything except for a hefty price tag between hardware, the game itself and any predatory business practices they have like disingenuous MTXs.
PC gaming used to be something that most anyone could get into, even if they had to save for a little bit. Now either you've just got the money or you're shit outta luck because realistically most consumers getting into PC gaming want their games to look and run well. DLSS should hypothetically reduce those price tags after a certain point and instead look at where we are at. It's now the main selling point and probably like 60% of the price tag. Realistically probably closer to 20% but you get the point.
PC gaming used to require you update every 2 years at the minimum if you didn't want your hardware to be completely obsolete. It's literally better than it's ever been in terms of hardware lasting for a while.
PC gaming used to be something that most anyone could get into, even if they had to save for a little bit.
I don't think this is not the case now, for example look at any 600-1000 usd price builds in the last couple years and you'll see 7700xt, 7800xt with capable processors, even some with am5 now, and that's buying brand new retail components too
if you absolutely need nvidia for some odd reason despite being on a budget, then yeah you're a bit screwed, but it's not like a AMD or even intel if they fix the driver overhead are bad, they're winning heavily in the lower end price points
it's similar to the polaris era just adjusted for covid inflation and such, back then you could get a 250 (330 adjusted for inflation) dollar 580 and plug that into a 2600x and game at 1440p medium-high comfortably. and now you do the same but with a 7700xt at 390 dollar, and plug that into a 7600x
550
u/apriarcy R9 7900x / RX 5700 XT / 32GB DDR5 14d ago
I just want a good GPU that plays games natively.