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Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU price leaked again, and it’s still eye-wateringly expensive (www.pcgamesn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The problem is midrange is defined on being "lower than high end", and the 5090 is insane that it drags that line up. If AMD makes an 8800 level card, it'll be a "mid range" card by the extremely wide spectrum of performance, but it's still an upper 1/3rd card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I agree that an 8800 is higher level. My standard is any GPU that does 1440p 144fps ultra of a 3 year old gane is above midrange.

I believe for GPU selection, a lot of people would be happy with 1080p 120fps path tracing on ultra. If graphical quality is the most important thing about gaming like some PC make it oi to be, there would be no consoles that sell.

Since there is a very large market of people who have not bought a new release within the last 2 years, it makes for a lot of people who would enjoy raytracing/path tracing getting 120fps at 1080 to 1440 but not more or higher.. The mass market is years away from 4K 144Hz.