When 90% of what I play is indie roguelikes with pixel graphics I don’t really need to upgrade. Has there been anything lately worth playing that requires cutting edge hardware?
I certainly won’t be upgrading until DDR6 memory is available. My PC still runs everything I need just fine. I just want a more energy efficient CPU. Mine uses 80 watts sitting idle.
Millennials are killing the PC parts industry
I went looking at parts a few days ago. VERY discouraging. My gaming PC is pretty long in the tooth. It was originally built to be a hackintosh. Is an Asus Gryphon z97 logic board, i7-4790, 32GB ram, a 1 TB SSD and a second WD Green HDD for stoarge and a GTX3060 (with 12GB of memory!) that I push a 4k display (30fps) with, and Win 10 Pro…
The cost of new parts - FML!
Needless to say I’m not picking up any new AAA gaming title anytime soon. :(
Worse than that, I don’t really have plans to build another one at all. There’s 2 or 3 games that seem worth playing to me every year, and hardware prices have been stupid for a while. Between crypto mining and now AI, it doesn’t seem worth it to me.
Welcome to the demand destruction part of the greed cycle.
I don’t think that means what they say it does. There is no new gpu generation, no new cpu generation until next year (and even then the x3ds will take more time), and the performance increase between generations is getting very marginal. Not to mention there’s no reason to build a new pc when most people can just upgrade granularly.
The fact that even 40% plan to build a new pc is crazy to me. Sounds like selection bias
Not sure how much gamers will care, but the next gen CPUs are leaked to have more cores per ccd so multitasking performance should go way up. Given the 9000 series mostly aimed for efficiency rather than speed, I’m expecting at least half decent gains for single threaded too.
This is mostly unrelated to your comment, I just wanted to share a small bit of hope about the performance increase aspect lol
I think untill we see something like Intel’s reverse hyperthreading tech (where a single thread can be run across multiple cores), gains will be linked mainly to semiconductor improvements.
Like the Intel Quad core years and the 6th to 11th gen stagnation.
I saw the marginal improvements that were leading up to me getting my pc in 2020, and things haven’t really changed. My 6700xt/5600x/32gb memory serves me well for all the games I play. I’ll upgrade when my CPU is obsolete
To be fair, a lot of that 40% could be people whose first step of building a new PC is checking if it’s worth it, meaning they may well decide not to build one.
Yeah my PC is pretty much good for anything I will do on it for the next decade at least.
To be fair AMD hasn’t released a serious GPU in almost four years, Nvidia GPUs are just significantly overpriced in general, and Intel is just not competitive on the GPU market. Meanwhile CPU upgrades have been becoming less and less significant as gamers care more about GPU performance and AI bros care more about vram. Of course there’s always new gen 5 nvme ssds but few people care and ddr5 ram is just too expensive for what it offers. I think there needs to be a massive push for enthusiasts to build a new PC, like the adoption of LPCAMM2 on desktops, GPUs that offer significant improvements, or maybe some new hardware feature.
i would call the 9070xt a serious card
In terms of performance the 9070XT is between the 7800XT and the 7900XT. Keep in mind in terms of price used you can find the 7900XT the same price as a used 9070XT except it performs 7.9% better (source). Imo when a GPU is barely competitive with the last gen that’s just not a serious gen, while it is 10% faster than the 7800XT launch price is also $100 more expensive.
To clarify I don’t think the 9070 is a bad card and on its own it stands up as having a pretty good price to performance especially for people who want to buy new, the problem is that the entire 9000 series just doesn’t provide a high end option and doesn’t hold up particularly well against used options (especially the 6900XT which has similar performance but lower used price).
RAM prices aside, who in their right mind would build a PC every two years?
“Enthusiasts”
