My £150 card from 6 years ago has an equivalent that costs roughly the same now..

[BlueDogAnchorite]

(adjusted for inflation too lol)
I knew it was bad, but not that bad woahhh!!

 

[johnb35]

Video cards are still about 1.5x what they should be.

 

[BlueDogAnchorite]

Video cards are still about 1.5x what they should be.

but the same power for the same price from 5 years ago, isnt that more like 3 times??

 

[johnb35]

What card are we talking about?

 

[beers]

Prices are on their way back down but they're still inflated. For the last few months people have been selling multi-year old cards for more than they paid new.

 

[BlueDogAnchorite]

What card are we talking about?

AH it was gtx 960 and 1050ti. was about the same price. and capacity on every big site in my country. I would have thought that in 5-6 years the same price would get me double the performance now? I'm pulling stats out of my ass, but am curious to know how close I am, I thught gpus were progressing at that speed generally performancewise?

I upgrade every decade, but like to vaguely know stuff , thanks.

 

[johnb35]

There is very little Performance difference between those 2 cards. You just have to understand the issue with gpu pricing right now.

 

[BlueDogAnchorite]

In 5 years how much more performance should gpus give for the same pricepoint in general though? Ignoring prices atm, actually prices altogether. double triple performance in 5 years about right normally?

Have we been slowing down even before coivd?

 

[johnb35]

I went from an R9 380 to an RX 580 and there was a big performance increase. It was $219 for the 380 in 2015 and $219 for the RX 580 in 2019 but this was back before prices were inflated. I bought both from Newegg and just checked my invoices.

 

[Darren]

You can find a lot of debates about that online but we are getting to the point we can't shrink die size a whole lot more, which is one of the primary places that increased performance comes from with smaller die sizes.

At the same time I feel like the leaps and bounds both in software/games and hardware are slowing down and you can get more mileage than you could a decade ago out of a single piece of hardware.

 

[BlueDogAnchorite]

You can find a lot of debates about that online but we are getting to the point we can't shrink die size a whole lot more, which is one of the primary places that increased performance comes from with smaller die sizes.

At the same time I feel like the leaps and bounds both in software/games and hardware are slowing down and you can get more mileage than you could a decade ago out of a single piece of hardware.

Will be fascinating to see what extra perks/value they add with more expensive purchases in the future to compensate. I will practice my google foo now some.