As someone who dropped $550 on a 1080 (not Ti) years ago and still using it for VR, I could be tempted to go AMD. Nvidia has gone off the deep end with pricing and I can’t see myself going that route. I’m starting to hit some bottleknecks and I’m sure I’ll upgrade in the next 3 years.
I went from a 1070 to a 6700 XT myself for the same reason. nVidia can fuck off.
Too bad amd has always lagged in VR performance. Especially if you were trying to do wireless quest, I think the encoding latency was quite a bit higher.
I use an AMD GPU and I stream to my Quest 2 a lot. I’ve only had one app have issues ever. It was Google Earth VR which I understand that they quit developing. I have never noticed latency either…
I nabbed a 6800 XT for $550 last fall also for VR and the same one’s even cheaper now (but the 7800 XT probably has it beat assuming the same or greater performance)
$449 is still massively overpriced for a midrange card.
Prices will never come down to previous gen card prices. We’ve passed the threshold. NVidia will keep their prices high because there is significant demand for their chips outside of gaming and AMD follows in lockstep.
This is probably true, but it doesn’t mean that individual, non-AI/crypto consumers have to accept it, and largely, they haven’t been. All it takes is for Nvidia/AMD stock to drop from the overinflated prices for prices to come down.
And the stock dip is unlikely since they’re doing gangbusters on the datacenter front. Nvidia has enough gas in the tank to weather the hit from low consumer Gaming sales.
I’ll be holding onto my 1060 6GB until it croaks.
I’m still rocking an R9 380 w 2GB VRAM. Upgrading just isn’t feasable for me since the midrange cards are all super overpriced.
NVIDIA has been struggling in recent years to find use cases for their graphics cards. That’s why they’re pushing towards raytracing, because rasterization has hit its limit and people no longer need to upgrade their GPU for that (they tried pushing towards 8k resolution, but that’s complete BS for screens outside of cinemas). However, most people don’t care about having better reflections and indirect lighting in their games, so they’re struggling to get anywhere in the gaming market. Now NVIDIA is moving into other markets for their cards that don’t involve gamers, and they’re just left as an afterthought.
I don’t think that this will ever change again. Games like DOTA, Fortnite and Minecraft are hugely popular, and they don’t need raytracing at all.
I personally tried going towards fluid simulations for games, because those also need a ton of GPU resources if calculated at runtime (that was the topic of my Master’s thesis). However, there have barely been any games featuring dynamic water. It’s apparently not interesting enough to design games around.
No 449 is great for a midrange card. It’s okay to not like spending money but this price is impressive.
No it’s not. If it was $350 I’d be impressed, but even in this day that’s $100 overpriced.
7800 XT looks like the best value at 16GB.
I know the Arc a770 has a 16GB variant for a lot cheaper, but it seems like its performance is generally way lower.
However, both vendors have released major driver updates recently so I might be judging by outdated benchmarks.
Since NVIDIA shit the bed this gen for everything under $599 4070, these seem like decent options at their respective price points
