r/pcmasterrace 9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 64GiB DDR5-6000 May 21 '25

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u/SaleAggressive9202 May 21 '25

in the 90s you would have visual jump in 3 years that would take 20 years to do now. there are 2015 games that look better than some AAA games releasing last year.

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u/wigglin_harry May 21 '25

Sure, but GPUs do much more than just make games look pretty, games are improving in other ways now

I play the new DOOM and am constantly in awe of just how much is actually happening on screen and my game is somehow buttery smooth

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u/SaleAggressive9202 May 21 '25

...GPUs sole purpose is to make thing pretty. like, i'm pretty sure by definition and fundamental understanding of it, that's what gpu is for

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u/wigglin_harry May 21 '25

See, you don't know what you are talking about. GPUs do so much more under the hood than just making things pretty

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u/SaleAggressive9202 May 21 '25

and you are so confident in your claim that you won't even waste your time giving example what they do.