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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah. I bought a 3060 on eBay for $240 a few weeks ago. Works great.

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Brand new Intel ARC B570 puts up numbers in the 4060 range and only costs around $250

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I usually buy AMD for their open-source support. I wanted nvidia this time around to fiddle with AI stuff, which is better-supported on nvidia right now.

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      • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        fiddle with AI stuff

        I.e. one of the same things that causing gouging on GPUs and the market to be pushed out of gamers hands.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For years now the prices on this year’s latest cards are so high that I don’t know who buys them. I can afford to spend $1000 but I never would when I can probably get 85% of the performance for $250.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Out of curiosity, what GPU is getting 85% of a 5080’s performance at $250? Genuine question.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That was genuinely pulled out of my ass. Not a benchmark comparison. It’s just my perception that cards only get incrementally better each year, but “this year’s card” is always wildly expensive. Few games actually demand the very latest and greatest, so I don’t know why people would ever pay the premium for the latest and greatest.

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      • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah, gotcha. I haven’t been looking for GPUs for a few years now, so I was low-key excited that there was actually a deal that good.

        But yeah, I agree that the last couple gens of flagship GPUs are vastly overkill for 95% of games.

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      • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And the same applies to smartphones since a while ago.

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• TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is what I got from the article as well. Jesus, buy a previous gen GPU and fiddle a bit with your graphic settings, it’s just games, not life or death.

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• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I actually had thought of that too, but see my reply to someone else further below:

  lemmy.world/comment/15537041

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• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good luck finding a used one that isn’t barely on its last legs from being poorly OC’d/cooled, or is just an outright brick that burned out in a crypto mining farm and is now being resold by a shell entity of a shell entity of a shell entity on Amazon or Ebay.

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