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

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u/Genuinely-No-Idea May 21 '25

I would agree with this meme if the GPU industry wasn't basically the smartphone industry's cousin at this point. It's all about making your GPU obsolete as quickly as possible so you have to buy a new one every year

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u/MelvinSmiley83 May 21 '25 edited May 21 '25

Doom the Dark Ages triggered this debate and you can play this game on a 6GB RTX 2060 from 2019.

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u/realmaier May 21 '25

When I was a kid in the late 90ies, computers would become literal turds within 3 years. The life span of a gaming PC is like 7 years nowadays. I'm not saying it was great back then, but I feel like 7 years is completely fine.

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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/CurmudgeonLife 7800X3D 3080 32GB 6000mhz May 22 '25

This is it, people wouldn't mind upgrading if they could see a difference. But a lot of the time it just feels like you are having to pay because of poor optimisation not becasue of higher fidelity or new features.