If you’re planning to buy a GPU in the 2020s it’s probably best to aim for late 2023.
A used 1080ti is half the price of a 3060 and has more vram
Also is on life support drivers, does not support compute shaders and is not supported by modern Linux at all.
Life support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
How so? Nvidia dropped support, so as it stands you are at the mercy of the distro maintainers to keep the old drivers in the repos.
while fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
As far as I could tell Neuveu drivers do not support older cards at all. It does load into the environment, but crashes as soon as there’s any rendering trying to happen.
3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
Then buy a used 3060 for $250-$300
Ive got a 1070 that still works really well. Steam games and all.
The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card
Fixed the headline. You’re welcome.
Unironically yes, for now at least, 9070 and 9070XT are well around their MSRP prices still.
just avoid buying hardware at all
Ah yes “Go for the 8GB card” you know, the same one we’ve been telling for years to avoid because of its limited vram capacity.
Hot take, developers should start optimizing for 4GB of VRAM or less. I’m personally just fine with a 7th-gen console level of detail at 1080p60, and I’m even willing to settle for 720p30.
Then again, most of the games I play these days are literally from the 90s, so what do I know?
Nah I’m happy with 720p even for modern games - ideally 60fps but i’ll take what I can get. I have a 1440p monitor and 720p looks good on it as it’s an exact 1:2 ratio
Didn’t know it was an integer ratio, I will try this on my 1440p monitor as well!
I would recommend using a tool - don’t rely on your operating system or the game for upscaling. Lossless scaling works incredibly well for this. I’m currently playing FTL (720p pixel art game) on my 1440p screen and it looks magnificent with this tool set to integer scaling. Razor-sharp pixels instead of the blurry, mushy ones that it suffers from with its built-in upscaling.
None of this makes any sense with 3D games though, of course. You have to be blind to play 3D games at 720p on a modern display.
Just avoid nvidia. AMDs RX 9070 XT is still a solid deal. I bought one two weeks ago for under $700. This thing is fantastic, plays everything Ive tried and the open source drivers on Linux are a breath of fresh air compared to the nightmare of nvidias drivers
If one is on Linux I’d urge to avoid NVidia like the plague. Replaced my 4070 Super with an AMD card and I’ve had zero problems since.
I’ve been slowly switching the family PCs I manage for exactly this reason. I’ve warned my family that if windows stops working, I’m installing Linux on their PCs and will sit down with them to train them how to use it rather than put up with Windows anymore. Someday I’ll be windows free, except for the office but I don’t have any control over company property.
I thankfully have two company laptops, one with NixOS on it. It’s rare that I need to use the Windows one.
My own computer runs on Tumbleweed. Every time there was an issue when doing a system upgrade, it was because of that fucking NVidia card. Thankfully with Tumbleweed you have Snapper functionality built in so rolling back is easy as hell, but there was a decent amount of time lost to troubleshooting and workarounds that I’ve just not experienced since switching from NVidia’s garbage.
I’ve got one in my living room PC I use as a home theater PC and couch gaming system running Mint. It runs every game I’ve tried at 4K60 no problem. Definitely recommend as well. I think I paid $650~ at Microcenter for it.
The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card
with more than 8 GB VRAM, if you value your bank balanceI’m avoiding computing I guess… I won’t pay those absurd prices, and I will not every pay for cloud bullshit.
I’ll abandon computing and the internet if it comes to it.
That’s pretty much the point I arrived at a couple years ago when prices never really did come down after the crypto bullshit tailed off.
The latest hardware I bought was a 16 GB kit of DDR3 for my spare parts server.
I bought a 1080 for every computer in the house when all that really went stupid. They paid for themselves in 3 months of mining at night. I eventually stopped because I wanted the cards to last. They all still run.
I wish I could point and click new GPUs at AI and get them for free.
I got a used 3ds and dsi and been loving it. Love them more than my switch. I’ll go for vintage hardware and vintage games if needed over paying for cloud computing.
Ah so the price hike is finally here after years of price stability…
is here
As in, it wasn’t here a year ago? Two years ago?
Its been here for long enough to set up a tent
AMD, Linux and indie games for the win.
You should be avoiding NVIDIA anyway, AI boom or not.
I’ve been avoiding Nvidia for a while now. Too much buck per bang.
First crypto now AI, can the users just asking for a decent GPU catch a break here?
Crypto was limited bad since it only targeted GPU performance. AI targeting DRAM affects EVERYTHING. Phones, TVs, monitors, your router, smartwatches, ANYTHING that runs even a semblance of OS…
Microcontrollers are mostly safe as they use a different structure of RAM (500kB-8MB RAM doesn’t need multi-thousand MT/s, so older tech is useful there).
But everything else is fucked.
You should also be avoiding cards with 8GB of VRAM.
