Hahah. Great point Nesrie. People often make this point not only at Qt3, but people I’ve met in real life too. One of my co workers got so mad at AMD for Nvidia’s prices. Because even though he was going to buy Nvidia anyway, he blamed AMD for not competing enough to push the price down.
stusser
4212
And AMD responds by making the 5600XT roughly 4% faster.
So … $20 for 1% and ray-tracing that’s not supposedly very good (in that the 2060 is the weak performer of the 20xx series). Nice move, AMD.
stusser
4214
Yeah, and $20 is actually 10% more money, so that might matter to people.
rei
4215
I’m hearing differing reports on some models of AMD being relatively driver stable and others a shitshow.
The only reason I’ll get a Raedon for my next card is because I want to upgrade my Hackintosh. Apple OSX dropped Nvidia support.
My ~7-year-old Geforce crapped out last week so I picked up a Geforce 1650 SUPER, considered a respectable budget card.
No complaints so far. Consistent 60fps on DOOM with graphics set to high (maybe ultra?) at 1920x1080. Good enough for government work. I just hope that’s the last piece of my computer to die for a while.
Nesrie
4218
Things with moving parts and heat tend to die first, but I still remember when the better card creators actually gave you lifetime warranty on their cards because… well they were confident in them.
vyshka
4219
That went away with the rise of cryptomining, right?
I think I’ve only had 1 video card die on me, and that was a GeForce 7600 GT that died from the dreaded Capacitor Plague.
Nesrie
4221
I might’ve been around there. That kind of thing definitely put unimaginable stress on those cards which I would’ve felt bad for the mnf for if it wasnt’ also the fact that mining jacked up the pries so terrible and sucked up the stock at the same time.
I don’t think I have ever had a GPU actually up and die on me. I usually replace them around the 3-5 year mark. PSUs I think are more common, and then maybe motherboards, but the motherboards are a little… unique because something else dying can short them out too and it’s not really the board’s fault.
But if an GPU did die, spinning part, heat prone… I wouldn’t be as surprised except at the higher end they are just usually pretty well made.
vyshka
4222
I remember retail stores quit allowing returns, and figured the board makers probably were forced to make changes as well.
I’ve had two GPUs die. One, the fan died first, so I did an aftermarket heatsink/fan solution that gave it an extra couple of years of life. The other just outright died after a few years.
I have a weird workload balance for video cards though. Very little taxing videogaming use in the last 10+ years, but PC is on 24/7/365. Hoping the 290X I bought off wumpus a few years ago keeps kicking. It beats out anything I could afford to replace it with to this day, hah
Nesrie
4224
So having your computer on 24/7 should not actually tax your GPU. I know once in awhile we get some really messed up drivers, but in general, just like the CPU, the GPU shouldn’t be under much load or stress just… sitting there.
Modern machines should also have them shut down rather than overheat too, GPU and CPU.
I seem to recall some fucked up Radeon patch that left my 4870 fan spinning at 100% at idle for a couple of months that I didn’t realize was an issue since the whole fucking system sounded like a jet engine in those days. . .
My computers are weird <3
First the games would develop bright green banding across part of the screen and then crash. That happened a few times. The next stage was the display, after bootup, showing nothing but a line of garbled pixels. Fortunately my mobo had onboard graphics so I could still use my PC while waiting for the new card to arrive, but it couldn’t handle 3D games worth a damn (like, even the original Neverwinter Nights was a slideshow).
All good now, fingers crossed.
Nesrie
4227
May the odds be forever in your favor!
It looks like I’m going to be replacing my 2 year old gaming PC pretty soon. My sons PC is ancient and dying and I think I’ll give him mine and use this an as excuse to buy myself the new shiny.
My current PC has a 1080ti GPU that I’m extremely happy with. So I’m sort of curious what the consensus opinion is these days on getting something new with about that level performance?. Should I just get the cheapest thing from the current Nvidia lineup that performs roughly equivalently to my 1080ti? Or is it worth paying the premium to get the top of the line raytracing features and so forth? FWIW I’m on a 1080p monitor so I’m not worried about trying to get 60fps+ at 1440p resolutions.
stusser
4230
For 1080p, I wouldn’t get anything faster than a 2060. Will cost around $300. If you want high-refresh 1080p, maybe a 2060 super at around $400.
