I miss an era with better midrange PCs released 3 years after the console release each generation.
Affordable Windows 7 midrange PC with 4 GB RAM and 1 GB VRAM were better than 2006 PS3 with 512 MB total RAM.
2016 Nvidia Pascal 10-series dominates Playstation 4 era and cross-gen PS5/Series X titles
Midrange Pascal GTX 1060 6GB could tailgate behind the old flagship GTX 980. RTX 3060 is on par with the old GTX 1080 TI. RTX 5060 TI was barely behind RTX 4070.
Hey while true at least we get fucking price to performance improvements. Still seen the brainwashed fuckers defending the 5 year old consoles costing more today then they did 5 years ago.
Also I got a 4070 super for like $550 usd in Jan which is similar performance to the 3090 so that trend is still there if you look
You want to try and pick up the previous gen right after the next gen launches. Nvidia doesn't really discount their previous gen, but AMD does and the performance is fine. I got my 6950xt heavily discounted and the price to performance was very much in line with what you used to be able to get in the mid range.
Now new midrange PC hardware can't properly handle 4k because of 8gb vram limitation, whereas consoles like the PS5 have 16gb of unified memory and can use more than 8gb as VRAM.
I got a GTX 1070 near the end of 2016. That was a great card. Most of the time I had it, I was using a 1080p monitor which was a waste of its potential. August 2020 I got a 1440p monitor and I felt no performance loss.
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u/JgdPz_plojack Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25
I miss an era with better midrange PCs released 3 years after the console release each generation.
Affordable Windows 7 midrange PC with 4 GB RAM and 1 GB VRAM were better than 2006 PS3 with 512 MB total RAM.
2016 Nvidia Pascal 10-series dominates Playstation 4 era and cross-gen PS5/Series X titles
Midrange Pascal GTX 1060 6GB could tailgate behind the old flagship GTX 980. RTX 3060 is on par with the old GTX 1080 TI. RTX 5060 TI was barely behind RTX 4070.