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Seriously.
Even back then my brother picked up a 3090 affordably.
I want a 5090 for my big ass dual 4k ultra wide that is pooping on my 5080 and they now cost as much as a clean 1991 Miata. My wife will at least let me buy a Miata. She will smother me in my sleep if I pay 6k for a graphics card for my e game.
MSRP was $1,500 and most of us were getting FTW3 cards for around that price at the time. For the flagship-est flagship card ever at the time, that felt appropriate. The thing aged very well too, so I don’t think any of us really felt like we’d been ripped off.
I bought a used GPU from a mining farm after one of the crypto crashes, got a really good deal (though of course a little risky since it had been run 24/7 for a couple years).
If the AI/data center bubble ever pops, things could get interesting.
Tbh I never found out. It wouldn’t have been bad it was only a 68mm on a 3.0L. The S300 chassis is large. I had that same turbo on my 12 sti made mid 700whp on e98. Ripped hard. On a 2j it should have been good for 900+whp.
I broke the rear end shortly after getting it going. (Ford rear end) decided i wanted to move on to new projects and did.
I do regret selling the Miata. It needed real money dumped into the rear differential and safety equipment along fixing some of the short cuts. But a buddy and I built that car in a year or so in my garage when I was like 21.
It had a solid motor, six speed trans, good fuel system, pro efi 128 ecu, a nice custom engine harness etc. I’d kill to be able to work on that car again today. I’d do a lot of things a lot nicer with my income today and skills I’ve learned since.
This sounds about like me. Growing up I was a dsm fanboy, and still am to this day. I had a 92 Talon Tsi AWD when I was younger, and I kick myself for ever getting rid of it. Now I’m older and a clean awd turbo gen 1 or 2 dsm are becoming more and more rare, and parts are getting more scarce. I just daydream and drive a Camry nowadays.
in 2021 according to nvidia's earnings reports- consumer graphics cards made up over 60% of nvidia's total revenues reported across all of their product segments.
in 2026 according to nvidia's earnings reports- consumer graphics cards are so insignificant that they bundled that product segment with automotive and a few others under "edge computing" which makes up 7% of their total revenues collectively.
From being a majority of the money spent with NVIDIA in 2021, we have become so insignificant to nvidia's bottom line that they don't even feel the need to maintain the optics by even offering us the 5090 die anymore.
Yeah it was nice when a 3090 was $500. Well they weren't but I got one for that once.
If only I'd mortgaged my house and sat on all my 2022-2024 electronics I'd have a quarter million extra dollars. And somehow that's not an exaggeration.
Was it even bad during that time, u buy the gpu, mine on the side and get most of ur money back anyway... I did that shit with my 3060 and made a couple hundreds
About 13% slower at 1080p according to Tom's Hardware's GPU hierarchy table. Or, flipped, the 5060Ti 8GB is about 15% faster.
The 3070 does use 40W more according to the official power ratings (220 for 3070, 180 for 5060Ti), though real world, it seems the 5060 uses a bit less than what it's rated.
That said, the price difference between the two cards is, ah, shall we say, a bit breathtaking these days.
They also broke open all of the Nvidia products for Nvidia users recently, apparently hardware flip metering wasn’t as integral in generating multiple frames as Nvidia wanted to pretend it was. When Nvidia released the DLSS 5 DLL it seems to have set off a ton of projects.
you ar ebetter off using https://github.com/sdli1995/dlssg_for_sm86
this is bypassing framegen lock on 2000/3000 series cards and rewrites deep learning kernels to optimize hardware usage on older architectures. I use it on 3080ti and it works flawlessly.
Of course the game should already have DLSS implemented.
Add an Arc A380 to your setup. Thats what I did before I got my 50 series. DaVinci Resolve automatically uses the arc to decode, and the more powerful gpu for effects processing.
I bought a refurbished 1650 from Zotac before for around $50 bucks to have a card to test with and had no issues. Price suck right now even for Zotacs refurbished and open box cards however I would get this over a good faith Facebook Marketplace deal.
Nah hook me up with marketplace weirdos all day long. I've dropped $20k on marketplace PC hardware this year so far and it's all been good. Did get scammed on a 3060ti because I wasn't doing my due diligence but that's a drop in the bucket compared to that I've made in profit on these deals
I went from a 5700xt to a 3070 ti, hoping it would do better for 1440p. In my experience, it was better, but not enough for me to justify the purchase. Definitely more than enough for 1080p though, my 3070ti went to my brother and it's still running strong a few years later.
If you're interested in new games, for compatibility yes. Without DX12 Ultimate on the 5700Xt, you won't be able to run games like FF7 Rebirth for example
Bought a 3070 at launch for 400 and thats when scalpers started becoming really prevalent and also 6 years ago. This si pretty expensive for what it is imo but if you're desperate, I don't think has much of an AI tax since it has such little vram. Also tbf i sold it like 3 years later for more than i bought it because of scalpers again.
For what it's worth, I've bought two different refurbished cards from Zotac, and they've been perfect. Looked and ran like new, and still running fine a year later.
Not really an upgrade at all, the 3060 Ti was just a cut down 3070. Performance should be pretty similar in a lot of games - the TechPowerUP relative performance chart puts the 3070 at an average of 14% more performant than the 3060 Ti. You'll probably see much less of a difference in a lot of applications.
Holy crap I have a non-LHR 3070, a 2060 Super, and 2 GTX 1660 Ti just sitting in a drawer. I never imagined anyone would be paying this much for a card that old.
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