:lol AMD

[baseline bum]

Look at this showing off

[DJR210]

I'm planning on getting a 1070.. now's finally a good time to upgrade

[baseline bum]

I'm planning on getting a 1070.. now's finally a good time to upgrade

Before you even see the benchmarks?

[TDMVPDPOY]

those clowns on here running or going out to buy the latest video card...can u tell me what fkn screen you using?

[baseline bum]

Looks like the joke may be on Nvidia according to OC3D:

I'm definitely not buying the 1080 unless it somehow outperforms Vega 11. I don't see it. I bet they bundle Battlefield with it. I was thinking 1080 because I figured Vega might not make it to market until March or April.

Get in here Cry Havoc

[Cry Havoc]

Looks like the joke may be on Nvidia according to OC3D:

I'm definitely not buying the 1080 unless it somehow outperforms Vega 11. I don't see it. I bet they bundle Battlefield with it. I was thinking 1080 because I figured Vega might not make it to market until March or April.

Get in here Cry Havoc

ing loving my 290x. Can't wait for DX12 to take hold really unlock this card's potential.

[baseline bum]

Wow, Nvidia is axing three way and four way SLI on the GTX 1080.

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/...nfigurations/1

[baseline bum]

GTX 1080 with a 33% gain on the 980 Ti in Firestrike Extreme? (eg Firestrike at 1440p) Holy if true.

[Cry Havoc]

GTX 1080 with a 33% gain on the 980 Ti in Firestrike Extreme? (eg Firestrike at 1440p) Holy if true.

Meh. Show me some real world tests.

[baseline bum]

Meh. Show me some real world tests.

How is that not impressive? That's a straight gpu score with no cpu bottleneck getting in the way. If true this is going to be a ing killer card.

[baseline bum]

Still man, pc gamers. I'll probably end up buying one once AMD s the bed again with Vega, but it sucks that a midrange chip like the GTX 1080 is ing $600. 2011 and before this kind of chip was labelled 60 Ti-series and not 80-series and sold for $250. Then when AMD's $500 HD 7970 flopped in 2012 Nvidia realized they could get away with doubling the price of their cards. The midrange die $250 GTX 560 Ti got succeeded by the midrange die $500 GTX 680. The $500 big die GTX 580 got succeeded by the $1000 big die GTX an. LOL us dumbasses paying twice as much for video cards 2012 and beyond.

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Still man, pc gamers. I'll probably end up buying one once AMD s the bed again with Vega, but it sucks that a midrange chip like the GTX 1080 is ing $600. 2011 and before this kind of chip was labelled 60 Ti-series and not 80-series and sold for $250. Then when AMD's $500 HD 7970 flopped in 2012 Nvidia realized they could get away with doubling the price of their cards. The midrange die $250 GTX 560 Ti got succeeded by the midrange die $500 GTX 680. The $500 big die GTX 580 got succeeded by the $1000 big die GTX an. LOL us dumbasses paying twice as much for video cards 2012 and beyond.

I thought PC gaming was cheaper than ever, though. That's what everyone says anyway.

[baseline bum]

I thought PC gaming was cheaper than ever, though. That's what everyone says anyway.

Everyone is full of then.

Back in 2011 an i5-2500k was the best gaming cpu out there, nothing would make use of an i7. Now games actually will use the hyperthreads and you're looking at a $350 i7-6700k for maximum gaming performance. Even the direct equivalent of the 2500k, the i5-6600k, is about $245 now. In 2011 the an X equivalent was the $500 GTX 580, now it's the $1000 an X. The $600 GTX 1080 equivalent was the $250 GTX 560 Ti.

[baseline bum]

[baseline bum]

Looks like Polaris 11 may end up with around GTX 960 performance at 50W. That should really help them get back into mobile. Polaris 10 is probably going to be around R9 290x performance at 150W, which has pretty much mostly been done by the 970 already.

[baseline bum]

Damn the 1080 is reported to be pretty capable of 2.5 GHz on water cooling, though you'd probably be using close to 980 Ti power by then.

[leemajors]

Everyone is full of then.

Back in 2011 an i5-2500k was the best gaming cpu out there, nothing would make use of an i7. Now games actually will use the hyperthreads and you're looking at a $350 i7-6700k for maximum gaming performance. Even the direct equivalent of the 2500k, the i5-6600k, is about $245 now. In 2011 the an X equivalent was the $500 GTX 580, now it's the $1000 an X. The $600 GTX 1080 equivalent was the $250 GTX 560 Ti.

still got my i5-2500k

[baseline bum]

still got my i5-2500k

Probably the greatest gaming cpu ever made.

[Cry Havoc]

I thought PC gaming was cheaper than ever, though. That's what everyone says anyway.

Everyone is full of then.

Back in 2011 an i5-2500k was the best gaming cpu out there, nothing would make use of an i7. Now games actually will use the hyperthreads and you're looking at a $350 i7-6700k for maximum gaming performance. Even the direct equivalent of the 2500k, the i5-6600k, is about $245 now. In 2011 the an X equivalent was the $500 GTX 580, now it's the $1000 an X. The $600 GTX 1080 equivalent was the $250 GTX 560 Ti.

You can build a computer that will run all games on high for ~$800. It might not have gotten significantly cheaper from say, 2013, but it definitely still very affordable.

[baseline bum]

You can build a computer that will run all games on high for ~$800. It might not have gotten significantly cheaper from say, 2013, but it definitely still very affordable.

It's undeniable there has been extreme inflation in GPU prices. $600 for a midrange die is crazy. And then AMD putting out their small die at $300?

[Cry Havoc]

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/whVYcf

Complete build for $700. The 380 is a solid card that will land most games on high @ 60fps.

[Cry Havoc]

It's undeniable there has been extreme inflation in GPU prices. $600 for a midrange die is crazy. And then AMD putting out their small die at $300?

What are you talking about? $600 gets you a top of the line card that runs every game on max detail.

[baseline bum]

What are you talking about? $600 gets you a top of the line card that runs every game on max detail.

It's a midrange die, the big one is GP100, and that is going to be at least $1000 on launch. Those were the $500 cards before 2012.

[Cry Havoc]

It's a midrange die, the big one is GP100, and that is going to be at least $1000 on launch. Those were the $500 cards before 2012.

So because top end video cards are becoming much more powerful, it's evidence that gaming is more expensive?

I disagree, I think that it shows the niche market that is extremely high end gaming is a growing demographic, and that more people are willing to put that kind of money forward for a truly monster system.

Right now a $230 card will get you 1080p 60fps gaming on almost every new le on the market. That is something that used to be true only of cards that cost $500 or more.

For comparison, a top of the line computer when I started college in 2000 was $3000. (top of the line card at the time, but not a top end processor)

My first built computer in 2007 was $2000.

My rig in 2011 that I'm currently typing this on was around $1400.

All of those computers when released where what was necessary to do what you can do today for $700, as the build above shows (less if you look around for deals).

A $1000 card is an outlier in the market, it's not reflective of what is necessary to run 99% of les. The cost of a La Ferrari is not reflective of the cost of a Honda Civic or Ford Mustang.

[baseline bum]

Right now a $230 card will get you 1080p 60fps gaming on almost every new le on the market. That is something that used to be true only of cards that cost $500 or more.

I don't know man. An R9 380x is the best $230 card and that can't hang in games like Witcher 3, GTA V, and Rise of the Tomb Raider. It's not very different from the framerates a 560 Ti was getting in games five years ago even though 1080p was a pretty high end resolution then while it's a somewhat lower end resolution now. You might have had a case a year to a year and a half ago when you could find R9 290s for that price for a few months.

How much of that $2000 on your 2007 system was the monitor? I remember paying $1000 for a 21" or 24" Samsung 1080p panel back in 2006. No argument that monitors were crazy expensive back then. CPUs didn't seem a whole lot different though. Conroe was like $250 and you only really got raped if you bought something like Kentsfield, but quadcores were useless for gaming back then, especially considering how new dual core was for gaming. What was the king of the hill gpu back then? 8800 GTX?