frontpage Posted by Dr.W • Jun 12, 2025
Jun 12, 2025 6:38 AM
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frontpage Posted by Dr.W • Jun 12, 2025
Jun 12, 2025 6:38 AM
OMEN 16L Gaming Desktop PC: i5-14400F, RTX 4060, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD
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The only reason vRAM requirements seem as high as they are (and are frequently overstated) is because game developers have stopped bothering to optimize their games. AMD further perpetuated this by caving into the developers and releasing hardware with more vRAM than was required two generations early.
Even so, there are no games out today where 16GB is a requirement.
There are also no games out today that will prohibit you from playing if your card has 8GB of vRAM. Heck, most won't even complain if you have 4GB or 6GB.
Will you have a better graphical experience as the card scales higher? Obviously. But there's also occasional diminishing returns as you get near the top that no YouTuber is brave enough to admit either. Don't forget, telling people their brand new hardware is already utter garbage is how they make money.
Gaming was a lot more fun when people just played them instead of treating them like expensive tech demos and shaming others for not having the best hardware.
I'm sure that 1 million FPS @ 8K ultra looks amazing. Too bad you have all those benchmark and stat overlays covering it most of the time.
especially when Nvidia itself is pushing games using RT and FG on by default.... which uses more VRAM
gaming was a lot more fun when the top card from NVIDIA was $600 even when AMD couldn't even compete
but now you low standard consoomers are happy for overpriced GPU from the TRILLION dollar company
especially when Nvidia itself is pushing games using RT and FG on by default.... which uses more VRAM
gaming was a lot more fun when the top card from NVIDIA was $600 even when AMD couldn't even compete
but now you low standard consoomers are happy for overpriced GPU from the TRILLION dollar company
Sure, let's just ignore economics completely: https://www.techradar.c
Also, your fallacy is not understanding that bad development and adding more vRAM just creates a toxic feedback loop.
If anything, you Koolaid drinkers should be pushing more devs to start utilizing Direct Storage.
Also, your fallacy is not understanding that bad development and adding more vRAM just creates a toxic feedback loop.
If anything, you Koolaid drinkers should be pushing more devs to start utilizing Direct Storage.
imagine having to compare 90s prices to todays prices to make a point.... when only a fraction of the world had computers
let alone, how about comparing the 9800GTX that came 2 years later the 8800, was more powerful despite lower memory yet was HALF THE PRICE
what's next? why $10,000 OLEDs are a great price despite that entire technology being a fraction of the cost it used to be and now everything has an OLED display....
how about Laptops? why are today's high end laptops hovering from 1,000 to 3,000 when 90s laptops were 3,500 to 5,000?
let's go back to the 50s were computers were millions of dollars...
keep going, Jensen must be happy with how shiny his boots are
Yeah, $100 less would probably be a little sweeter. The graphics card is worth about $250 on sale and the computer is worth about retail $450 or $500. So it's okay but not really a flaming hot deal.
if you are in need right now and this fits inside of your budget, it's not a bad system. You can always upgrade the graphics card down the road and you have a good system today and a good system down the road. I'm personally not a big fan of that generation of Intel processors. When I built my system I went with AMD because of their processor issues. there are some fixes that sort of patch the issues but don't solve them completely.
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imagine having to compare 90s prices to todays prices to make a point.... when only a fraction of the world had computers
let alone, how about comparing the 9800GTX that came 2 years later the 8800, was more powerful despite lower memory yet was HALF THE PRICE
what's next? why $10,000 OLEDs are a great price despite that entire technology being a fraction of the cost it used to be and now everything has an OLED display....
how about Laptops? why are today's high end laptops hovering from 1,000 to 3,000 when 90s laptops were 3,500 to 5,000?
let's go back to the 50s were computers were millions of dollars...
keep going, Jensen must be happy with how shiny his boots are
Funny how in any other conversation, you'd be telling people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, yet it's perfectly fine for you to demand more memory for free.
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