OK, just for fun, lets do a brand-new dollar for dollar comparison of what you get for the latest new GPUs in the same price bracket. ~250 GBP on Amazon.co.uk w

OK, just for fun, lets do a brand-new dollar for dollar comparison of what you get for the latest new GPUs in the same price bracket. ~250 GBP on Amazon.co.uk will get you a 6GB GTX 1660Ti or Radeon RX 5600XT. This gives you a GPU that has 6X the memory, and roughly 25X the performance of the card you would get 13 years ago: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/GeForce-8800-GT-vs-GeForce-GTX-1660-Ti-vs-Radeon-RX-5600-XT/1279vs4045vs4186 https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare/GeForce-8800-GT-v... (see also: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-5600-xt.c3474 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-5600-xt.c347...). The 5600XT plays almost every single game at over 60fps @ 1080p (often over 100fps): https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-5600-XT-Desktop-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.459227.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-5600-XT-Desktop-... By every relative and absolute metric, you are getting way more for your money than you did a decade ago, even vs other technology products (eg CPUs have made significantly less performance gains over the same period [0]) or experience (you can play the latest titles at much better fidelity and frame rates than the 8800 GT could for games of that era). Have high end card prices gone up? Sure, due to both to increased demand volatility (multiple waves of crypto booms and busts) as well several generations where Nvidia has simply not had viable competition in the highest performance categories, but even with that in mind, performance/$ has still kept climbing in just about every single category. Note: new generation low-mid range cards still haven't come out yet. Expect another bump in price/performance Q1/Q2 next year (GA106 & GA107 for Nvidia, Navi 22 and 23 for AMD, also potentially Intel's Xe DG2). [0] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Core2-Extreme-Q6850-vs-Intel-i9-10900KF/1024vs3754 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Core2-Extreme-Q68...