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submitted 11 months ago by Hypx@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

Do PC gamers feel 12GB of VRAM is simply not enough for the money in 2024?

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[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 128 points 11 months ago

GPUs haven't been reasonably priced since the 1000 series.

And now there's no coin mining promising some money back.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 19 points 11 months ago

You mean Nvidia GPUs? I got my 6750XT for 500€, and I think it's a good price for the performance I get.

[-] 2xar@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago

That is still overpriced i think. Although, much less egregious than what Nv is doing. Launch msrp for a HD7850, which was the same category as the 6700XT today (upper middle tier) was 250 usd. A few years prior the 4850 started at 200 usd. Even the Rx 480 started at only 230 usd. And those were all very decent cards in their time.

[-] reinar@distress.digital 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Launch msrp for a HD7850, which was the same category as the 6700XT today (upper middle tier) was 250 usd.

There's much more effort involved to produce modern GPU now. Either way, if NVidia would be truly greedy, they'd close gaming gpu business right away and would produce only AI accelerators. You can take same 4070, add $200 worth of GDDR chips to the layout and sell this for $15k minimum, shit would be on backorder.

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