Next-Gen GPUs: What Matters Most to You?

[JohH]

It's curious that only 2% answered upscaling. Yet nearly every time I see someone recommend a Radeon card because it is on sale people on reddit bring up DLSS as a reason for buying a 15% slower raster card at the same price.

I think DLSS has far more influence on Nvidia dominance than this poll suggests.

 

[Tomorrow]

It's curious that only 2% answered upscaling. Yet nearly every time I see someone recommend a Radeon card because it is on sale people on reddit bring up DLSS as a reason for buying a 15% slower raster card at the same price.

I think DLSS has far more influence on Nvidia dominance than this poll suggests.

This is a single choice poll. Hence people naturally choose what's most important top them.
2% for upscaling as the most important factor for choosing a next gen card sounds about right.

Only when other options are equal will most people actually look at upscaling differences.
Those who suggest things online often dont do it unbiased.
Those who suggest not buying Radeon cant even be bothered doing their due diligence when looking into driver support and often just quote things they've heard or read on the internet.

 

[regs]

RT performance and pricing. There is more than enough raster performance at this point. But as it's a single choice, then RT, PT etc.

It's curious that only 2% answered upscaling. Yet nearly every time I see someone recommend a Radeon card because it is on sale people on reddit bring up DLSS as a reason for buying a 15% slower raster card at the same price.

It's just already there and delivered. Although AMD needs to work out it better way.

 

[TechBuyingHavoc]

This is a single choice poll. Hence people naturally choose what's most important top them.
2% for upscaling as the most important factor for choosing a next gen card sounds about right.

Only when other options are equal will most people actually look at upscaling differences.
Those who suggest things online often dont do it unbiased.
Those who suggest not buying Radeon cant even be bothered doing their due diligence when looking into driver support and often just quote things they've heard or read on the internet.

Exactly this. You won't see what is actually important to people besides their first choice unless you do a ranked-choice poll.

That said, upscaling is my absolute last priority, personally speaking. I would rather take overall energy efficiency over it.

 

[Jawz]

That said, upscaling is my absolute last priority, personally speaking. I would rather take overall energy efficiency over it.

My only problem with energy efficiency in isolation (without considering raster performance) means that technically you could have raster performance regression. If they released the 5090 with a TDP of only 5 W but it only had the raster performance of a 2060, that would be pretty "efficient" yet raster regression. Laptop users might enjoy that, but I'm sure it'd cause an outrage for desktop. They should go together.

 

[AusWolf]

My only problem with energy efficiency in isolation (without considering raster performance) means that technically you could have raster performance regression. If they released the 5090 with a TDP of only 5 W but it only had the raster performance of a 2060, that would be pretty "efficient" yet raster regression. Laptop users might enjoy that, but I'm sure it'd cause an outrage for desktop. They should go together.

Yes, it would cause an outrage, that's why you won't see it happen. It's more likely that they'll give you just 5% better performance with similar power, or similar performance at slightly better power across the board, except for the 5090 which will be stupidly fast, but it'll burn your house down in return (as that's what idiots called "enthusiasts" or something want).

 

[Film2240]

The things that matter to me in a new GPU are more performance with greater energy efficiency than now for video encoding tasks as I convert a lot of video as a filmmaker, while having more reasonably priced gear. I don't mind paying for a GPU that offers good performance for the price and power use but paying for something like an RTX 4090 or RTX 5090 would be too much for me. I'd pick an RTX 5080 as my next GPU upgrade to keep things more affordable and deliver lots of performance compared to my RTX 4070 Ti. I hope I see more variety of options from Nvidia, AMD and Intel for their GPUs in future.

 

[Catzilla]

I voted VRAM since I run AI language models and image generation. I have an RTX 3060 I bought a few years ago and an RTX 4070 I bought last year. I can run small to medium size language models with acceptable performance. Larger models run out of memory. Stable diffusion static image generation works well with good performance but I hit memory limits with video generation
I've been watching the RTX 5000 series rumors and concluded that I will not be buying any RTX 5000 since it doesn't look like anything other than the RTX 5090 gets a memory bump, maybe the RTX 5080.
As a toy/something for me to learn about programming these cards, I am not going to spend over $1000 for a new card. AMD is 100% out of the question, because they don't anywhere near the software development environment NVidia has for consumer cards.
My most reasonable upgrade looks like replacing the R=TX 3060 with the RTX 4070TI Super and be done with upgrades.

 

[Apocalypsee]

RT performance of course, raster performance is good for me since I only play at 1080p, I assume large amount of people who voted for raster is playing at 4K or beyond, ultrawide and whatnot. If they pushing RT in new games and promotes it then it needs to be main priority.

Pricing is important too, I just hope Radeon or Intel Battlemage puts up decent pricing and performance to battle nvidia.

Upscaling IMO only important for lower end card trying to get decent performance. When I use 3080 to play Cyberpunk I totally didn't use them despite that I'm using path tracing. But on my laptop 3050 I use them to give extra edge in terms of framerate, though I rather have them disabled and lower other setting instead because I can visually see the degradation. Frame gen works best at high framerate so it's not something that transform lower end cards to play with all eye candy enabled. Once the framerate drops below certain threshold (usually below 40-50fps) it started to have issues.

VRAM is just nvidia scamming 'the more you buy, the more you save' bullshit and limiting high VRAM on top spec cards. 3000 series should have more VRAM, and so does 4000 series which they sell lower tier card as higher tier (4050 die as 4060 with 4070 pricing, DISGUSTING)

 

[Daven]

Looks like the vote was cleaned up again. Now it’s getting closer to my original take. Pricing should be first followed by either efficiency or raster.

 

[Krit]

Finally the truth. Why only one vote is not possible?

 

[Loppollz]

That poll is not correct - people are voting wishfully/dreamy. If the vote was correct - everyone would be hitting hard on RDNA3 as its the best in terms of money/raster. But market (e.g the reality) shows completely different picture...

Everyone here just want to say - we WANT 5090/5090Ti but for 900$ tops...

It's curious that only 2% answered upscaling. Yet nearly every time I see someone recommend a Radeon card because it is on sale people on reddit bring up DLSS as a reason for buying a 15% slower raster card at the same price.

I think DLSS has far more influence on Nvidia dominance than this poll suggests.

Same for RT or "pricing" - everyone should be buying AMD, but hit HARD on Nshitia cards...

 

[lexluthermiester]

on Nshitia cards

I love when kids try to talk all hard. It's as amusing as it is silly.

 

[Pumper]

All the rest are irrelevant if the price is ridiculous.

 

[_roman_]

I'm not the forum owner. Why not make a poll which is bound to the username?

 

[pavle]

Energy efficiency - all monitor pixels colored the right way for the least heat output of the Box.

 

[Loppollz]

I love when kids try to talk all hard. It's as amusing as it is silly.

Lets bet i am older then you are But lets not spam the nice topic...From what i said - what is not true?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Lets bet i am older then you are

Let's be honest, anyone who casually refers to a company in that way you described above can't be dealing with an appreciable amount of maturity, thus the implication of your age. Regardless, the onus is on you to stop using such silly expressions.

But lets not spam the nice topic...

Spam? LOL!

From what i said - what is not true?

You're missing the point. Think about it..

 

[Dawora]

Vram only 7.1%
Still forums are full of AMD fans whos crying Nvidia Vram amount.
So its more like trolling then

That poll is not correct - people are voting wishfully/dreamy. If the vote was correct - everyone would be hitting hard on RDNA3 as its the best in terms of money/raster. But market (e.g the reality) shows completely different picture...

Everyone here just want to say - we WANT 5090/5090Ti but for 900$ tops...


Same for RT or "pricing" - everyone should be buying AMD, but hit HARD on Nshitia cards...

Nvidia have better GPUs
So ofc i buy gpus that are better and its Nvidia.

look marketshare, Nvidia Rock!

 

[AusWolf]

Vram only 7.1%
Still forums are full of AMD fans whos crying Nvidia Vram amount.
So its more like trolling then

Joe wants more VRAM. He uses AMD because AMD offers more VRAM ---> Joe must be a troll because only 7% align with him in the poll. Wow, your logic is flawless!

Nvidia have better GPUs
So ofc i buy gpus that are better and its Nvidia.

look marketshare, Nvidia Rock!

Yep, market share should be very important when you're considering which GPU to buy. Nvidia is definitely the best in this regard.
But wait... when the 5090 comes out, its market share will be 0% for a start. Should I still buy it, then?

 

[TechBuyingHavoc]

Joe wants more VRAM. He uses AMD because AMD offers more VRAM ---> Joe must be a troll because only 7% align with him in the poll. Wow, your logic is flawless!

And consider that AMD only has a market share of 12% as of June 2024. That means that the percentage of people who want more VRAM as a top priority in this particular poll is 58% of the percentage of people who buy AMD GPUs.

Sounds logical to me! A lot of AMD users are probably people who also consider VRAM to be very important. I can't prove that but none of the numbers prove otherwise either.

 

[AusWolf]

And consider that AMD only has a market share of 12% as of June 2024. That means that the percentage of people who want more VRAM as a top priority in this particular poll is 58% of the percentage of people who buy AMD GPUs.

Sounds logical to me! A lot of AMD users are probably people who also consider VRAM to be very important. I can't prove that but none of the numbers prove otherwise either.

If AMD has a market share of 12%, but only 7% of people want more VRAM, it tells me that the concept of AMD being "shitty cards with more VRAM" doesn't hold.

But in general, I don't think people voting for VRAM in this poll and buying AMD has much correlation, if any at all.

 

[Hankieroseman]

display port two point one said the Samsung fifty seven inch monitor

 

[GamreCaleb]

As an AMD user, I only partially bought one because of VRAM, and mostly because of raster. I don't play any ray tracing games and I got extremely tired of my old 3070 running out of VRAM. So I settled with Radeon because it has lots of VRAM but it's got more raster than I could ever need. win win

 

[Kaleid]

As an AMD user, I only partially bought one because of VRAM, and mostly because of raster. I don't play any ray tracing games and I got extremely tired of my old 3070 running out of VRAM. So I settled with Radeon because it has lots of VRAM but it's got more raster than I could ever need. win win

Same. plus RT is not even often noticeable:

Obviously I still want the technology to be used but I don't expect it to be that great until maybe the next gen of consoles coming (Switch 2 will obviously be too slow for it)