In a practical sense though you do still agree with me because you'd never buy another 8GB card, right? You've mentioned you'd buy a 4070 if you could've. And of course, what settings and perf level is palatable to you is a you thing. Nobody is contesting that, I think. The real and only point here is the stagnation and the killed upgrade path: you could reasonably move through x60 cards back in the day every time and keep finding more performance and gaming options that get playable. That's no longer the case - that now only occurs if you happen to also get cool DLSS4 support so you can still suffer the same latency but have more frames.
Aight I finally got the chance to actually reply properly
'long ass day huh..'.
I do agree in a sense that buying a brand new 8 GB card in 2025 especially considering the prices nowadays is indeed unwise unless the person actually has a list of specifc games to play and that those games are fine with 8 GB at the given resolution.
What performance and settings are fine for each person is subjective ofc and thats why I refuse to argue that part since its just pointless.
Stagnation yeah I've noticed that but lets be real its happening to both AMD and Nvidia nowadays.
Like 3060/Ti to 4060/4060 Ti is like a whatever upgrade but the same goes to RX 6600/XT to 7600 heck even the 6800XT to 7800XT was kind of meh and even now with the 9000 serie the biggest uplift was done in the RT department and FSR 4 is also exclusive to them as of now.
I'm not as tech savvy as some of you are here like I always skip the first few pages of a review where they break that part down since I don't exactly care about what node is a GPU on and all that stuff since it really doesn't affect the choice of my GPU in the end.
'if it works well enough for my needs and fits my budget range then its good enough for me+preferably its not over 250W max power draw'
So with that out of the way idk if this is the reason but I've read that the stagnation is also thanks to shrinking the node is becoming increasingly difficult and thats why we can't see those big jumps between generations anymore and the focus is more on the other features like RT and upscaling.
Personally I don't hate any of those features nor blame them for anything really, to me its part of progressing tech in general and they aint going anywhere either.
'Devs being lazy and refusing to optimize their games is an entirely different can of worms that I would not like to address here..'
Upscaling is like everywhere now from consoles to handhelds heck I even use FSR on my mobile in the UE 4 based gacha I'm playing and on the PC client I'm using Transformer DLSS Quality via the Nvidia app and its defo better than whatever crap built in AA the game has.
'its not listed just simply called AA but it does look like a crappy implementation of TAA or maybe even FXAA'
Frame gen I can't say much about since yeah I can only try AMD Frame gen and thats a mixed bag so far but it actually works kind of okay in Stalker 2 with Nvida Reflex enabled on top, tried it and it gave me a flat frametime at my capped
'monitor's refresh rate' 75 FPS and the latency was still good enough for me to pop ppl in the head with a pistol so eh it depends on the game I guess.
I think they should be viewed in that context. Its blatantly obvious to me but apparently not to everyone. You're not going to 'un-buy' your 8GB card are you.
