OT: Video Games VI

[usiel]

There are some eye-popping claims as far as RTX 5070 roughly equaling RTX 4090 performance, but they appear to be reliant on the full use of DLSS 4's AI chop socky to get there. For pure horsepower, you're still going to need 5080/5090, if upgrading from the top end. That $500 price hike is a doozy for the top-tier XX90, generation over generation.

I'll be using my RTX 4090 for a couple of more years, I expect. I might see if I can hold out until they release a 6080 or 6090 in the fall 2027/early 2028 time frame. They seem to be churning them out every 2 1/2 years or so.

Still, it positions the RTX 5070 as a really good value for the majority of users and that's got to be a good thing. Coupled with the improving Intel Arc series at the ~$200 price point, that's good news for the budget gamer.

I'm where I need to be on 4k/UW performance with a 4080 so probably waiting to the 60 or 70 series if they keep on with the model designation. I'm closer to putting a new gaming PC itself together rather than a video card. At the time intel didn't have a mboard with 4thgen pciexpress for a few more months and went with the AMD which has been rock solid. Maybe some slight extra reboots the first month or so then it settled down.

Any idea who currently is in the chipset lead between intel/amd?

 

[Drake1588]

AMD X3D for the time being, if you play a fair amount of games. The xx50X3D gives you the best of both worlds, with lots of cores and also gaming. The xx00X3D is gaming focused.

So the 7800X3D and 9800X3D for mostly gaming, with the 9900X3D just announced. The 7950X3D and the just announced 9950X3D for productivity and gaming. You'll pay north of $500 for the latest xx50X3D CPUs.

Intel is still trying to figure out its life, as far as I can tell.

I have multiple PCs for different applications, plus a HTPC, am really good RE: my gaming laptop, and am using a RTX 4090 and 7950X3D for my main gaming rig. So I'm good for a long while. The benefits of going top end is the GPU can last you a good four years. I might swap in a 9950X3D in a year.

 

[Neil Racki]

Won the SB in madden 25
Won the Cup in NHL25
Fishing and hunting in ch 4 of RDR2
Given up on the Os being a playoff team in MLB25


Cyberpunk -- kinda sliding into my DMs (is this what kids say?)

 

[tycoonheart]

Anyone playing PoE 2 early access? I just got it, checking it out now.

 

[usiel]

AMD X3D for the time being, if you play a fair amount of games. The xx50X3D gives you the best of both worlds, with lots of cores and also gaming. The xx00X3D is gaming focused.

So the 7800X3D and 9800X3D for mostly gaming, with the 9900X3D just announced. The 7950X3D and the just announced 9950X3D for productivity and gaming. You'll pay north of $500 for the latest xx50X3D CPUs.

Intel is still trying to figure out its life, as far as I can tell.

I have multiple PCs for different applications, plus a HTPC, am really good RE: my gaming laptop, and am using a RTX 4090 and 7950X3D for my main gaming rig. So I'm good for a long while. The benefits of going top end is the GPU can last you a good four years. I might swap in a 9950X3D in a year.

Lol, bolded.

 

[Drake1588]

There's some early buzz that the latest generation of AMD's answer to DLSS upscaling, FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), is looking impressive on the show floor at CES in Las Vegas.

Any improved competition in the GPU space with respect to nVidia would be welcome. If AMD can also bake in some better ray tracing, the market might really shift. I don't really want to switch, but I do want AMD to put genuine pressure on nVidia. Advances like this are a solid way of doing so.

 

[Roric]

Good god the 50 series cards are out? I remember when 3090s were all the rage. How the hell are you supposed to keep up in pc gaming

 

[Drake1588]

Good god the 50 series cards are out? I remember when 3090s were all the rage. How the hell are you supposed to keep up in pc gaming

I think the big difference is that for games, the technology isn't moving at the breakneck pace it once did. If you compare it with 1987-1994, you had seismic change every 6-9 months in PC gaming. Then when 3D accelerators first hit, it got even nuttier.

Now, the prices are rising but the software requirements aren't moving that fast. The tech that you need for games today isn't outdated if you have six-month old gear. Anything else is just FOMO.

If you're still rocking a 20-series GPU, you're still good at 1440p without ray tracing. I think we're only now at the point where a GTX 1080 isn't good enough to enjoy today's games. That card's from May 2016.

Gear is expensive but you seem to be able to keep it longer and it's still relevant because the new hardware is only needed for video processing/content creation, mining and AI, not gaming. When Chris Roberts was developing a Wing Commander circa 1990, he made it so that you needed the latest tech or the game wouldn't be playable.

That was that year's killer app and so gaming was driving hardware upgrades. Software developers now are aiming at the greatest install base for gaming, more than used to be the case. If you look at what gear people on Steam are using, it's been a lot of 1080s until just the last year or so.

 

[Kazer]

Exactly what was said above. I was rocking a 7000 Radeon series card (came out in 2012) until last year where I upgraded to a 4060. I was initially looking higher, but I quickly realized that for the 1440p gaming that I do that there was no reason to go more expensive than that.

 

[BallardEra]

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

Really having a lot of fun with CoD. I’ve never tried anything except Multiplayer so can’t comment on the Campaign but I’ve enjoyed playing online way more than I thought I would. Maybe it’s just me but for whatever reason this one doesn’t give me the sense that everyone is just hiding on the map sniping you as soon as you come back from getting sniped 10 seconds earlier by the same guy.

 

[HeyMattyB]

If you're still rocking a 20-series GPU, you're still good at 1440p without ray tracing. I think we're only now at the point where a GTX 1080 isn't good enough to enjoy today's games. That card's from May 2016.

Yeah, we're still using the 2080-based PC my wife built in late 2018.

We can play most new, somewhat graphics-intensive games at 1440p without ray tracing (and, depending on the game, on medium-to-high settings). But for the super graphics-intensive games released in the last few years, it's pretty rough. We can't afford to build a new PC right now (and we'd have to upgrade everything to accomodate a newer GPU), so I've just been subbing to GeForce Now.

Too bad so many of the big games I want to play (like PC ports of many of the Sony games) aren't available on the service. At this point, when I'm considering buying a new game, whether or not it's available on GFN is usually a major factor in the decision.

Not that I have any time to play games anyway, lol.

 

[Cappy76]

Really having a lot of fun with CoD. I’ve never tried anything except Multiplayer so can’t comment on the Campaign but I’ve enjoyed playing online way more than I thought I would. Maybe it’s just me but for whatever reason this one doesn’t give me the sense that everyone is just hiding on the map sniping you as soon as you come back from getting sniped 10 seconds earlier by the same guy.

CoD is fun until you run into cheaters/hacks then it gets real aggravating real fast