It’s incredible how much the prices have fallen and that’s how it should be. Sure, I bought the 960 close to launch but still the difference is staggering.

The 960 Evo still chugs along albeit it’s a new one because a few months after I bought it, I had to RMA it. I guess that’s what happens when you are an early adopter. I lost a few hours of work when the original 960 Evo decided to stop working but it also taught me to be more paranoia with backups.

  • ItsWizardTime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    1 year ago

    This is how hardware should work! Overtime what was bleeding edge is now the norm and as such should be priced accordingly… Looking at you Nvidia

    • LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      1 year ago

      nVidia GPUs:

      970GTX was 329$ in 2014

      1070GTX was 379$ in 2016

      2070RTX was 499$ in 2018

      3070RTX was 499$ in 2020

      4070RTX is 599$ in 2023

      Probably, the 5070 in 2025-6 will be 650-700.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Then ya got the 8800GTX in 2006, with a MSRP at a cool FIVE HUNDRED NINETY NINE US DOLLARS, or 900USD in now-money.

        Granted, that was an outlier at the time, but still!

        I opted for 2x7900GT cards in SLI in my first self-built monster machine, for Crysis. 330USD each. That thing was a monster. Ran Crysis at 40-50FPS!

        …bought an Athlon 64x2 4400+ for some 460USD… it dropped to like 200 just a month or so later when Intel’s Core series was a smash hit.

        • DrManhattan@lemmy.designEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I bought the 8800GTX because it was the first DX10 compatible GPU available, and that thing was an amazing powerhouse. No need to fiddle with SLI profiles, just raw graphical power.

      • LightDelaBlue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        its hurt i pay back in time a gtx titan x … it was 1000€. for the top of the top. and today the top line is … way fuking more…