All upscaling is bad, regardless of who or how it's being made. It's just stifling real performance gains now at this point.
I don't even use AA & AF while gaming.
You don't use AF. And upscaling is bad. Mate do you even logic, AF is a straight quality upgrade, and always has been, unless you like your textures looking like a total mess at a distance. Its like, completely unrelated to upscaling. Similarly, AA can be a straight quality upgrade depending on its implementation.
But sure, you're at liberty to play your games with AF off, no AA and 320x240. By all means, knock yourself out. But then you didn't need the performance gains regardless, you can run your stuff on an IGP
Its just not as black and white is it, right? Upscale does enable higher fidelity, it all depends what is catered to: the race to the bottom, or the cutting edge. And yes you can go both ways with it, and yes, I agree the economical reality & commerce nudge it to racing to the bottom... Until it gets disproven by a dev/studio that does know what it's doing and puts everyone to shame. That's how commerce and markets work. Stuff needs to degrade before getting better. Compare it to fashion. We're back to wearing the outfits from the 80's, but with a new milennium vibe. Game graphics were already done a few times over, low hanging fruit is long gone. But companies still need to sell GPUs.
Nobody ever said you've got to chase the latest greatest, and with gaming, it really wasn't ever a great idea.
The best thing about the 7800X3D is it offers some of the best gaming performance at a price most can afford the only downside is the gpus people need to make it stretch it's legs start around 1000 usd....
Nonsense, the X3D also elevates minimums that are clearly not GPU bound, in various games. Typically those are
also the types of games that don't really need a heavy GPU. Think building sims; 4X; etc. You don't really care if it runs at 45 or 100 FPS, but you don't want them running below 30; or at the very least, you want to postpone the moment they drop below 30 as long as possible, so to speak.
The battle for averages is long over, every CPU can manage decent enough averages, but there are still games and types of games that love that cache to elevate minimums and dips. Honestly I don't even look at CPU averages anymore. They're all so close together, its completely irrelevant. Fact is I'm using a 6c12t from 2017 and it still runs everything fine on a high end 2023 GPU.
And then there's the future outlook. For its money, the X3D can carry this GPU upgrade, and the next, and likely even the one after that. Plus, it'll give you all that perf at a wattage that is insanely low, out of the box. I don't see downsides here honestly, not being able to utilize a part for 100%
because you are GPU bound isn't a CPU downside lol, its an advantage. You have headroom so you're always GPU bound. That's awesome.
