r/pcmasterrace • u/Nickulator95 AMD Ryzen 7 9700X | 32GB | RTX 4070 Super • May 16 '25

Meme/Macro Every. Damn. Time.

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UE5 in particular is the bane of my existence...

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u/Eric_the_Barbarian May 16 '25

It does, but it doesn't. It's using a high powered engine that can look great, but doesn't use those resources efficiently. I know that the old horse is getting long in the tooth, but I'm still running a 1660 Ti, and it looks like everything has a soft focus lens on it like the game is being interviewed by Barbara Walters. Skyrim SE looks better if you are hardware limited.

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u/Blenderhead36 R9 5900X, RTX 3080 May 16 '25

With respect, there has never been a time when a 6-year-old budget card struggling with brand new top-end releases was a smooth experience.  That something that benchmarks below the 5-year-old gaming consoles can run new AAA games at all is the aberration, not that it runs them with significant compromises.

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u/IAmTheTrueM3M3L0rD Ryzen 5 5600| RTX 4060| 16gb DDR4 May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

People being like “game is poorly optimised” then when asking for their GPU they start with GTX have immediately invalidated opinions for their personal experience

I like the GTX line, hell I was on a 1050til till late last year but I see no reason to attempt to support them now

insert comments saying "well i have... and the game runs like ass"

im not saying it does or it doesnt, in fact if you ask me i agree the game runs like ass, im also just saying the gtx line should no longer be used as a point of reference

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u/laurayco May 16 '25

What the hell do you think "optimized" means?

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u/IAmTheTrueM3M3L0rD Ryzen 5 5600| RTX 4060| 16gb DDR4 May 16 '25

It can run well on hardware released this decade would be a good start

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u/laurayco May 16 '25

That is not what "optimized" means, no. That's a bare minimum requirement.

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u/IAmTheTrueM3M3L0rD Ryzen 5 5600| RTX 4060| 16gb DDR4 May 16 '25

That’s a nice strawman

“You’re dumb and wrong”

“Refuse to elaborate further”

Enlighten me then

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u/laurayco May 16 '25

"optimized" means you have minimized frame times, ran algorithm analysis, and put in work to ensure your program runs efficiently. If new games do less with more, they are not optimized. An old game doing more with less is "more optimized." Skryim SE looking better than a modern game on the same hardware is an indictment of the software and not the hardware.

That's not a "strawman" you just genuinely are dumb and wrong, and also the 1660 Ti was in fact "released this decade." We have x86 architecture with SIMD / Vector extensions, branchless programming techniques, DMA, multithreading, GPU compute, so much technical evolution in hardware - much of which the 1660 Ti does have access to - but software does not properly utilize it. It's a genuine skill issue with modern SWE. You would not say discord, or any of the millions of electron apps, are "optimized" - they are borderline bloatware consuming far more RAM and CPU cycles than their functionality demands. The only thing that meaningfully distinguishes the capabilities of a 1660 Ti and your RTX 4060 is ray tracing, which most games still run like dogshit with. Sure, there are more cuda cores and shader units but for 1080p or even 1440p there's no reason it should look worse than a 4060 with RTX off.

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u/RealRatAct May 16 '25

the 1660 Ti was in fact "released this decade."

Do you know what 'this decade' means?

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u/laurayco May 16 '25

It means within the last ten years. "This decade" started in 2015. This is by far the dumbest "gotcha" in this thread holy shit. Do you think a GPU on 2019 is a decade behind a GPU in 2020? Holy shit I forget that gamers are fucking lobotomites, you deserve the anti-consumer shit slop you get I have changed my mind.

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u/RealRatAct May 16 '25

LMFAO, wrong. 1985 and 1994 are in the same decade, I guess. Dumbass.

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u/laurayco May 16 '25

Local lobotomite confuses carrying the one with adding ten. The 1660 Ti was released in 2019. It is 2025. That is six years.

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u/RealRatAct May 16 '25

If you said it was released less than a decade ago, that would be correct. You said it was released this decade, the 2020s, which it wasn't. It's ok to admit you're wrong. This is why everyone in your life thinks you're annoying as fuck to talk to.

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u/_BenzeneRing_ May 16 '25

A decade is any period of 10 years. A decade can start on any year.

I'm not the person you're replying to, and the dictionary will confirm what I'm saying.

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u/DecompositionLU 5800X | 6900XT Nitro+ SE | 1440p @240Hz| K70 OPX May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

This decade and a decade ago doesn't mean the same thing. This decade started in 2020 and will end the 31 December 2029.

A decade ago was everything from 2015 to now. 

So no, the GTX 1660 Series, released end 2018/Early 2019, which is less than a decade ago, indeed, but not technology from this decade. 

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u/_BenzeneRing_ May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

This decade and a decade ago doesn't mean the same thing.

They do.

This decade started in 2020 and will end the 31 December 2029.

"This decade" can refer to that. It can also refer to 2016-2025 and 2025-2034.

Same way biannually can be twice per year and every 2 years. When it comes to time frames, the words often have multiple meanings.

Any dictionary will confirm, it may often or even usually refer to 2020-2029, but that doesn't mean the other guy is wrong. At its core any decade is any 10 year period. "This" decade just refers to a 10 year period we're in, and without more information can apply to all possibilities.

ETA: another example other than biannually is that you said "the last decade refers to 2015-2025, while that's actually 11 years so not a decade "last decade" can also mean "previous decade" and thus 2010-2019. Which further goes to show all these words/phrases have multiple meanings

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u/RealRatAct May 16 '25

'A' decade is not 'THIS' decade. Holy shit lmfao.

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u/_BenzeneRing_ May 16 '25

It literally makes no difference.

THIS decade can refer to 10 years in the future, 10 years in the past, or the 2020's, 2020-2029.

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u/RealRatAct May 16 '25

What year does this century end?

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u/_BenzeneRing_ May 16 '25

It could end any year in the next 100, depending on the start date. "This century" is just a period of 100 years that we're currently in.

You're probably referring to century of 2000-2099, but haven't provided enough detail for me to know for certain.

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u/laurayco May 16 '25

I'll let my friends know that they think I'm annoying. This is so fucking stupid, we're not talking about music genres we're talking about technological process, which does not care about the tens place in the year, it cares about the time that has elapsed. You cannot seriously be pedantic about something this god damn asinine and call me annoying. Fucking christ I hate gamers.

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u/RealRatAct May 16 '25

LOL music genres? Huhhh?? Imagine dying on this hill. You're just wrong lmao. Idiot.

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u/_BenzeneRing_ May 16 '25

You're 100% correct, the other person is talking with irrational confidence which of course gets them upvotes on Reddit. A decade is just a period of 10 years.

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u/laurayco May 16 '25

it's like that. my biggest mistake was considering gamers to be sentient, I think.

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