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CosmicCreeperz t1_isbi62a wrote

Reply to comment by FormulaTacoma in NVIDIA cancels GeForce RTX 4080 12GB - VideoCardz.com by MorgrainX

Technology matches on… should they just tell all of their engineers to take a year off? ;)

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FormulaTacoma t1_isbie5r wrote

I dunno but if you don’t like the developers catch up with using the horsepower then what’s the point?

Like if Ti cards were coming out this year and 40 series next year would anyone actually care?

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CosmicCreeperz t1_isbowod wrote

Probably not. But the reverse is also true. People will buy whatever is the fastest for their price range at the time. I’d be pretty happy to get a 4080 for the same price as a 3080 a few months ago, and not have to upgrade for an extra couple years…

That said I don’t even really want a 4K monitor, let alone have one already. And I have no interest in 200Hz gaming, 120Hz is more than enough for me. I think the truly functional real time ray tracing and high end VR support is the only reason I’d consider it now. But it’s irrelevant for me since I just overpaid for an (MSRP, still) 3080 earlier this year. Oh well.

Honestly though I do get your point - IMO the big problem isn’t necessarily that there is no use for faster cards, it’s that the market is so saturated with SKUs no one can figure out what the fuck they should get any more… I feel like a lot of “last gen” cards are either going to get very cheap and/or lose OEMs a bunch of money…

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