Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

• dai@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NM has been a marketing gimmick since Intel launched their long-standing 14nm node. Actual transistor density depending on which fab you compare to is shambles.

  It’s now a title / name of a process and not representative of how small the transistors are.

  I’ve not paid for a CPU upgrade since 2020, and before that I was using a 22nm CPU from 2014. The market isn’t exciting (to me anymore), I don’t even want to talk about the GPUs.

  Back in the late 90s or early 2000s upgrades felt substantial and exciting, now it’s all same-same with some minor power efficiency gains.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why I’m more than happy with my 5800X3D/7900XTX; I know they’ll perform like a dream for years to come. The games I play run beautifully on this hardware under Linux (BeamNG.Drive runs faster than on Windows 10), and I have no interest in upgrading the hardware any time soon.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s no world in which a 750Ti or even 1080Ti is a “solid machine” for gaming in 2025 lol.

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      • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Depends on your expectations. If you okay mainly eSports titles at 1080p it would’ve probably been quite sufficient still.

        But I agree it’s a stretch as an all-rounder system in 2025. My 3090 is already showing signs of it’s age, a card that’s two generations older would certainly be struggling today.

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      • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        For what I do? It would be perfectly fine. Maybe not for AAA games, but for regular shit at ~40fps and 1080p, it would be perfectly fine.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now, maybe, but like I said - in the past this WAS what let consoles get big price cuts and size revisions. We’re not talking about since 2020, we’re talking about things like the PS -> PSOne, PS2 - PS2 Slim.

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