You cannot build a budget rig on Intel and Nvidia parts, there simply aren’t making good price to performance products.
That’s gotta be a very specific regional thing for you, because the B580 has had many periods of being the budget goto for new cards being sold.
Then, for the 5060TI 16GB, which is sorta budget now, like low to mid budget, competes against the 9060XT when you consider… things like this, wider DLSS coverage, greater chance of game devs optimizing for it and total system price.
I do also kinda see only 16gb+ GPUs as viable… and I guess the 12gb 5070 if a gun was put to my head.
At the budget end further than that though, its gotta be used.
Talking about 400$ gpus as budget is the problem with today’s market. My whole set up down to monitor and peripherals was maybe 850 bucks, for reference my last car was a grand. Spending 1500 plus to have a PC set up is insane to me.
Also find it ironic your crying about drivers for the rx6600 while recommending the b580, that while technically a faster card, is regularly out performed by the rx6600 due to superior driver support.
Talking about 400$ gpus as budget is the problem with today’s market. My whole set up down to monitor and peripherals was maybe 850 bucks, for reference my last car was a grand. Spending 1500 plus to have a PC set up is insane to me.
It’s a crazy world, but unfortunately the market is how it is, and the AI Boom…ubble is making it a lot worse.
By sales volume, despite their price hikes, the various skus are getting similar to their prior number spreads. You’d think something like the 5090 would be getting half the sales of the 5080, and the 5080 half the sales of the 5070ti and so on and so forth (not quite following that steep an increase) but they aren’t, at least according to steam survey results and then you have to remember a bunch of 5090s are going straight off to AI racks.
Basically what I’m saying is… they price at what the market can bear (roughly, as of course AI skus the optimization math).
I think one economic theory Ive seen that seems plausible, is that many who would otherwise be saving up for houses have given up and buy the small luxuries to make life less shit.
Also find it ironic your crying about drivers for the rx6600
Why be incendiary/hostile about… I’m not even sure what, on a hardware forum post discussing a company’s anti consumer practices???
You think I care about other consumers purely out of self interest? Maybe you think I’m an AMD fanatic? My current GPUs are a RX 580 (In a linux box), RTX 4070 and RTX 5090, and I’ve had an Intel A770 too. I have no allegiances.
that while technically a faster card, is regularly out performed by the rx6600 due to superior driver support.
I specifically listed that this was for new cards at the budget end. The 6600 is a gen old and may be out of production.
That’s gotta be a very specific regional thing for you, because the B580 has had many periods of being the budget goto for new cards being sold.
Then, for the 5060TI 16GB, which is sorta budget now, like low to mid budget, competes against the 9060XT when you consider… things like this, wider DLSS coverage, greater chance of game devs optimizing for it and total system price.
I do also kinda see only 16gb+ GPUs as viable… and I guess the 12gb 5070 if a gun was put to my head.
At the budget end further than that though, its gotta be used.
Talking about 400$ gpus as budget is the problem with today’s market. My whole set up down to monitor and peripherals was maybe 850 bucks, for reference my last car was a grand. Spending 1500 plus to have a PC set up is insane to me.
Also find it ironic your crying about drivers for the rx6600 while recommending the b580, that while technically a faster card, is regularly out performed by the rx6600 due to superior driver support.
It’s a crazy world, but unfortunately the market is how it is, and the AI Boom…ubble is making it a lot worse.
By sales volume, despite their price hikes, the various skus are getting similar to their prior number spreads. You’d think something like the 5090 would be getting half the sales of the 5080, and the 5080 half the sales of the 5070ti and so on and so forth (not quite following that steep an increase) but they aren’t, at least according to steam survey results and then you have to remember a bunch of 5090s are going straight off to AI racks.
Basically what I’m saying is… they price at what the market can bear (roughly, as of course AI skus the optimization math).
I think one economic theory Ive seen that seems plausible, is that many who would otherwise be saving up for houses have given up and buy the small luxuries to make life less shit.
Why be incendiary/hostile about… I’m not even sure what, on a hardware forum post discussing a company’s anti consumer practices???
You think I care about other consumers purely out of self interest? Maybe you think I’m an AMD fanatic? My current GPUs are a RX 580 (In a linux box), RTX 4070 and RTX 5090, and I’ve had an Intel A770 too. I have no allegiances.
I specifically listed that this was for new cards at the budget end. The 6600 is a gen old and may be out of production.
Also the B580, especially now, is definitely faster (6600 was only 3/4ths as powerful at launch).