Should developers stop making games that require 5090 for max settings now that the card is clearly not for gamers and is accessible to 0.1% of community?

[u/TheGGspot]

I get that the games need better hardware to dun better, but who are they really making the game for if you need a 6000$ GPU at this point

[u/PhTx3]

It still is. While the prices suck, and every normal person/hobby is getting fucked left and right since covid, native 4k 60 is still a future spec.

[u/zgillet → u/PhTx3]

I'm implying we won't be owning future cards. Ever.

EDIT: the cope under me is amazing.

[u/ZorbaTHut → u/zgillet]

Do you really think that this year is when suddenly the entire field of technology stops advancing? 'Cause I don't buy it.

[u/zgillet → u/ZorbaTHut]

No, I don't. That happened years ago.

[u/ZorbaTHut → u/zgillet]

So, the claim is that we'll never get a GPU faster than the 5090?

[u/Spectrum1523 → u/ZorbaTHut]

His claim is that per dollar spent we won't get any. If there are more capable cards it will be because they draw more power (not sure why that's a benchmark for him but he brought it up), they will be more expensive, and they won't even be available for sale

[u/ZorbaTHut → u/Spectrum1523]

If you agree with him, want to formalize that? "At no point will there be a video card capable of more performance than the 5090, at a lower power budget and for less than $4,000-equivalent in 2026 USD"?

(If you don't agree with him, then no worries :V)

[u/Hans_H0rst → u/zgillet]

So years ago we got the last GPUs already?

Damn i must've missed it and accidentally bought a 9070XT a few months ago, u think i'll still be able to return it?

[u/zgillet → u/Hans_H0rst]

Did you pay way more for it? Or did it cost the same as your last one?

I thought so.

[u/Hans_H0rst → u/zgillet]

It cost the same as my last GPU, probably even less adjusting for inflating.

Dork.

Edit: Hey Gillet, check out this dork-ass evidence that my top-tier nvidia GPU ten years ago was even more expensive than the current top-tier AMD gpu. Too bad you blocked me instead of having an actually useful discussion about tech prices.

[u/zgillet → u/Hans_H0rst]

Now you're just lying.

Sad.

[u/Possible-Fudge-2217 → u/zgillet]

Oh boy i got news for you... moores law may be a thing but we havent reached that point yet. There have been many major strides in tech - hence the whole ai thingie.

[u/zgillet → u/Possible-Fudge-2217]

AI has been around way longer than people think, we just didn't have the RAM to make it global: The Computer Chronicles - Artificial Intelligence (1984)

[u/Possible-Fudge-2217 → u/zgillet]

I know the whole story, thing is, it wasnt used much until recently. Not just due to speed, but compute limitations as well.