• lokalhorst@feddit.org
    13·
    10 hours ago

    So happy I bought a RX 9060 XT from AMD for 400€ in July. It now climbed to 500€ and I am watching where this goes. Fuck NVIDIA by the way.

    • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Hell yeah. I did the same earlier this year when my older AMD shit itself. I saw nvidia’s prices, saw AMD prices, and decided that sticking with AMD was way cheaper.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pub
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Aren’t AMD cards more expensive per FPS? At least they were some months ago when I was figuring out which card to buy

        • REDACTED@infosec.pub
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Just did a quick check between rtx 5060ti and 9060xt, which seem to be performing quite similarly.

          In my country, 5060ti goes for 420eur, while 9060xt goes for around 440eur. Quite on par actually.

  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
    2·
    8 hours ago

    If you factor in inflation, I can find a 5060 for about 30% more than I got a 1060 for when that was new. You will get far more than a 30% boost in performance.

  • the_q@piefed.socialEnglish
    211·
    14 hours ago

    Nvidia is directly responsible for a large chunk of how shitty society is right now.

  • Megacomboburrito@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 hours ago

    My 1080 Ti still runs pretty much every game out there, granted it’s only 1920x1080. You’ll be fine, as long you don’t care about ray tracing or have a 4K monitor or chase high FPS

    • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 hour ago

      These don’t have ray tracing and dlss and some games won’t run anymore.

      This was the reason I switched from my 1060 to a completely new system.

    • Hazmatastic@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Honestly my regular 1080 only has trouble with a handful of really demanding games if I’m not too proud to bump down some settings. It’s put in over 1k hours in cyberpunk, so not bad

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
      311·
      4 hours ago

      Linux life is easier with AMD anyway.

      My RX 6800 was cheaper than equivalent Nvidia performance card and has never caused problems in my insane distro hopping or gaming.

      • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
        7·
        10 hours ago

        AMD is fully onboard the AI bubble as well though. Just with less money since they own a smaller part of the market than NVIDIA.

        It is a sad fact that unless you buy used, there is no way around supporting an AI company when buying gpu.

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
    3·
    11 hours ago

    You do know that when a new GPU series releases they actively buy back and destroy left over supplies to keep the prices high, right? They have been doing that for ages!

    • DearOldGrandma@lemmy.world
      9·
      12 hours ago

      I don’t mind it sometimes, given that more content in the Fediverse is needed in a lot of communities. And I hate reddit enough that I never visit the site, so I don’t know what was reposted here or what’s OC.

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        12 hours ago

        I remember in the beginning of reddit, 80% of memes were reposts from 9gag or canihazcheesebuger, which on their turm reposted from reddit and each other as well. The recycle cycle was very effective.

    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Maybe not directly. 5080 owner upgrades to 6090, 3060 owner buys the cheaper 5080 as a pretty nice upgrade and sells off their 3060.

    • myyass@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I have 3080ti and I’m glad I bought it; it’s likely the last graphics card I’ll have. I had a 1060 on a laptop before.