r/pcmasterrace • u/TheGGspot • Aug 11 '26

Discussion 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?

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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

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u/Talk_Bright Aug 11 '26

Yeah, from zen 2 to top end zen 4 is a huge jump.

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u/Dycoth i7-12700KF | RTX 5070Ti | 32Go DDR4 Aug 11 '26

Intel Gen 8 to Intel Gen 13 too lmao

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u/Tiavor never used DDR3; PC: 5800X3D, 9070XT, 32GB DDR4, CachyOS Aug 11 '26

they stagnated hard in between 4th and 12th.

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u/Hero_The_Zero R7-5800XT/RX9070/32GB/4TB SSD/4TB HDD Aug 11 '26

6th gen to 10th gen Intel had the exact same IPC, with the only performance improvements coming from higher core clock speeds and supporting higher speed memory. In theory, an i7-6700K OC'd to 5.3GHz (released August 2015) would match single core performance of an i9-10900K (released April 2020). 11th gen was the first IPC increase seen on desktop parts in 6 years and 12th gen brought big.LITTLE style core configuration, massively increasing multicore performance.

The real stagnation was 6th through 10th gen, 11th gen was the first actual performance improvement in 5 generations, and 12th gen was a complete game changer for Intel.