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2023 was the year that GPUs stood still (arstechnica.com)

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2023 was the year that GPUs stood still::A new GPU generation did very little to change the speed you get for your money.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

CP77, at least before the upgrade (haven't checked since then) ran perfectly... acceptable on my 4G 5500 XT. Back when I bought it (just before the price hikes) it was the "RX 590 performance but less watts and RDNA" option, the RX 590 hit the market in 2017. And I'm quite sure that people still rocking it are, well, still rocking it. Developers might be using newer and fancier features but I'll expect they'll continue to support that class of cards for quite some while, you don't want to lose out on millions of sales because millions don't want to pay for overpriced GPUs. Allthewhile you can get perfectly fine graphics with those cards, if you look back pretty much all 201x titles hold up well nowadays.

Due to ML workloads I've been eyeing the Arc (cheapest way to get 16G and it's got some oomph) but honestly so far I couldn't get myself to buy an Intel product that isn't a NIC, would break a life-long streak. A system RAM upgrade is definitely in the pipeline, though, DDR4 has gotten quite cheap. It's gotten to a point where I'd recommend 64G simply because 32G sticks are the cheapest per GB (and you probably have two memory controllers).