At first I thought I could only afford a 2030 but as low as they have gone I just might get a RTX 4K series card.
I’d highly suggest, if you can, to wait 'til the 5k series.
What do you have at the moment?
I could wait but I just have a GTX 960 lulz… I know sad.
What’s a 2030?
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Price drop for dumpster fire cards like 4060 8GB. Games these days demands 12GB at least. Then again, lazy developers did not optimize the game for PC.
I wouldn’t expect the lower end of the 50 series to be out for over a year, with the high end (ie: the 5090) arriving holiday season at the earliest.
I bought a 4080 over a year ago, and they are still selling for about the same price now. I’m not seeing any of the price decreases that you are talking about. At least not at the upper end.
They have introduced cheaper cards, such as the 4070.
They also introduced the 4070 Ti Super, which is more of a 4080-lite, and actually probably one of the best deals considering that it comes with 16GB of VRam unlike the 12GB on the regular 4070 Ti, even though it’s barely more expensive than the regular 4070 Ti.
However, the prices on older used cards from the 2000 and 3000 series have certainly fallen. Or if you are really desperate, even older used cards like the 1080 Ti have really dropped in price but can still provide a great experience in WoW.
Die shrinks becoming increasingly more difficult. Pumping more performance is becoming harder. Price drops won’t be easy. Thats why you see more than 300W cards these days. When you need parts to power more than 300W, it gets more costly too.
Unless someone can get new materials to make better processors soon. There are a few candidates but won’t be soon.
Just got a system with a 4080 super.
Coming from 2005-2010 era gaming machine that was getting 5-20FPS at 1080p on the lowest settings to 160 FPS at 4k and max settings is amazing.
I was happy with my old machine up to this expansion where things dropped from a constant 30 FPS to the 5-20fps in a lot of raid and dungeon fights. So I guess it depends on what you’re used to.
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Not only that, but Nvidia is running into the upper limits of what physical size current chip manufacturing allows.
It will be interesting to see their multi-chip design for (probably the 50 series, almost definitely for the 60 series) differs from what AMD is currently offering with Navi 31.
Sounds like if a 1060 tried to RT. And does it horribly.