I recently looked at the prices of pre built desktop in my country and the PS5 offers better price to performance, if it is jailbroken that is. The prices are ridiculous. I wanted a desktop to play games, the price isn’t worth it. Every month I see an increase in the price.
Why is everyone so obsessed with the 5090? It was always a luxury item. The real tragedy are the cards that used to be between $150-$350, you know, the ones people actually buy to play games with. That was the GPU market. For the first time I can remember “build a PC to save money” is bad advice. And it’s sad for the hobby.
Because game development has worsened, optimization is seen as a waste of investor money, so unoptimized games release that are built with insane graphics on test boxes with massive headroom.
When released, consumer grade equipment can barely handle it. So, the 5090, being the top tier card, becomes the only option to some people who want to enjoy the best fidelity in their games, like 60fps on their 4k monitors. Could it be excessive? Of course. But if a game was actually optimized as well, 60fps on 4k should be achievable by the 70 lines, not just the 90
That’s just an argument to not buy shitty unoptimized games. I’ve been going through my backlog with the occasional Indy game.
I was an Assassin’s Creed diehard fan, up until they fucked up the mechanics in Odyssey. Now, I wouldn’t give ‘Buggysoft’ 2 dollars for their whole lineup. So, I decided to pirate every single AC game I could find, put it on my Steam Deck, and I’m only at around 40% of Black Flag right now after about 27 hours of gameplay. Going over all of them will provide me with at least 5 years of having something to play that I really enjoy. I’m hoping that by that time I can finally afford to build a console-like rig to plug into my TV and forget Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft ever made video game consoles.
Then there’s the indie games I really enjoy playing, like Shipbreaker for example, that can run me over an hour for taking apart 1 ship alone.
None of those large studios will ever see my money again, and I sure as hell won’t be playing GTA6 unless/until it is available in the high seas.
Exactly. Don’t need a 5090 for indie. And they don’t treat you as more of a wallet than a person.
5090 is a consumer GPU. Feels different.
5090 is a consumer GPU kinda like a Bugatti Veyron is a consumer car, technically true, but if your goal is to get any sort of reasonable value for your money you really shouldn’t buy either of them.
Something like a 5070 is 25% slower, but you can buy seven of them for the price of one 5090.
Delivery companies using Bugattis would also feel similar
That price range hasn’t changed much.
The RTX3050 released around $300 MSRP.
The current gen 5050 goes around $300 today.
If anything, the prices of that range went down due to inflation…
A 5050 is 500€. About 400 without tax, but that’s still about 450 murican dollars.
3060 ti launched just over $300 MSRP, the 3050 was actually about 250.
Idk, I think it has changed a lot.
I purchased Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070XT early in 2026 for $950. I ended up returning it due to issues with it passing through in Proxmox. I figured out the issue and purchased it again about 4 months ago for $750. Right now it is going for $1,100.
That seems like a pretty huge swing to me—$350 swinging range within a single calendar year.
Hell, the RTX 3050 is still expensive.
My 3090 costs more than it was new… that is messed up.
That price range was for the XX60 and on a good sale the XX70. The fact that $300 gets you an XX50 is a tragedy.
The 3060 released at $329, the 3070 came out at $499…
The 2060 released at $349, 2070 also at 499.
The 16xx series stood out for being incredibly low priced, but it had no real high end cards.
GTX10 midrange ended at 1060, at $299, 1070 was high-end, at 449.
Meanwhile…
4060 release price was $299, 4070 $599.
5060 release price $299, 5070 $549.
So no, the entry level you’re saying people are mainly buying for gaming… it actually went down in price.
Yes because release price=price people actually buy it at. Also show me a 5060 at $300. The release price used to be the price early adopters had to pay as a premium. Now it’s a discounted price that you can never actually get.
Why am I arguing with you. You’re seriously claiming Graphic card prices didn’t increase. That should have been enough to make me block you and ignore your nonsense.
All GPUs are luxury items
If you consider playing modern games a luxury yeah.
I mean technically they are. In the sense that any hobby is.
But I have no clue what point they were actually trying to make here other than being technically correct or just to be an ass.
Ha! Just noticed the downvotes. My eyeballs are examining the top of my skull right now. 🙄🙄
Why don’t y’all go explain your right to cheap GPUs to a skeletonized Palestinian child.