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> 8GB cards are about $60 (10-12%) cheaper nVidia says the launch prices for them are $400 and $500, respectively. > seems like a good, rather than a bad, thi
by Const-me 1y ago
> 8GB cards are about $60 (10-12%) cheaper
nVidia says the launch prices for them are $400 and $500, respectively.
> seems like a good, rather than a bad, thing to me
The bad thing is the most affordable current generation card capable of playing modern videogames in decent quality now costs $500. That’s too expensive for most consumers I’m afraid.
Steam hardware survey says 7 out of 10 most popular cards are nVidia [234]060 which were sold for around $300. Despite most of them also have 8GB VRAM, when consumers bought these cards a few years ago, 8 GB was good enough for videogames released at that time.
- sokoloff 1y agoIf you're defining 4K@60Hz or 4K@120Hz as the left extreme of "decent quality", then sure. Legacy Blu-Ray discs maxed out at 1080p30. Most people would consider those discs to be "decent quality" (or more realistically even "high quality") video, and a $400 video card is well capable of playing modern games at (or even above) that resolution and framerate. The entry-level 5060 cards are also good enough for video games released at this time, in either memory trim.
- Const-me 1y ago> If you're defining 4K@60Hz or 4K@120Hz as the left extreme of "decent quality", then sure. The 8GB version struggles in 1440p, and only delivers playable framerates in 1080p with some combination of in-game settings. Here’s the original article: https://www.techspot.com/review/2980-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-8gb/ https://www.techspot.com/review/2980-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060... I agree with the author: that level of performance for $400 is inadequate. BTW, I remember 10 years ago I bought nVidia 960 for about $200. For the next couple years, the performance stayed pretty good even for newly released games.