Looking at 2000 series and now the 3000 series, what exactly is the point of these cards? I have a 1080 and seems to run just about anything I throw at it on all high settings at 1440p at 60+fps. What advantage do these high end cards have especially now? There are like 4 games that have raytracing atm, so is it really just for high refresh monitors or 21:9 monitors? X1 and PS4 is coming to a close and we are still at least a year off before big XSX and PS5 titl hits, it seems like these cards, with pretty cool tech, are going to be outdated by the time they are useful and a few hundred dollars cheaper. Cyberpunk and maybe the new Call of Duty seem like the only 2 games you'll be playing that will use these bells and whistles for at least 6 months, but spending $600 to play two games on release doesnt make sense to me.
Is now the time to upgrade your PC, or is 6 months from now when there is software to boot the actual time to buy one of these cards?
As a new PC owner, I am just getting used to the mindset of PC players.
As a console owner, you dont really have to think about stuff so much. If a game is released on your console of choice, you can pretty much assume it will work as intended. If the game runs poorly, it may be patched. You kind of just get used to have a fixed hardware that developers will have to work with.
With PCs, the choice is with you as a consumer, you decide what an acceptable performance is. You often hear people here saying things like "1080p in 2020? unacceptable! "30FPS in 2020? unacceptable!". For these people, its like they have set their expectations, and gaming at 1080/30 is not going to cut it anymore.
Others have set their expectations at 4K/120FPS/Ultra. For them, playing at anything less detracts from the experience.
In my case, I feel blessed with my mid range AMD PC. It feels like a dream to be able to run games at 1080/Ultra and often get more than 60FPS!
The disappoint thing it that there is a limit to how much you can scale up your old games, unless somebody releases like a mod to play with 4K textures or some options that was not available at the time or release. Framerate may go up but I am not sure if running a game at 500FPS actually makes any difference.
To come back to the OP point, I think the decision of when to jump in with a new GPU is subjective. I personally think I will get a new PC in 5 years time when hopefully the 5080 series will be available for $500 and push 100TF. I think that will be a good jumping in point.
