According to the latest post by prolific tipster @kopite7kimi, the RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics cards will be based on the GB202 and GB203 GPUs. The former is...
I’ve had a (probably wrong) take on the ridiculous direction modern GPUs have gone, that isn’t just because of crypto mining, ridiculous profit margins and machine learning. From when I got into the hobby until the release of the PS5 and whatever Xbox competed with it, if you built a PC at a similar budget to a console, it would consistently outperform it. The PC I built 8 years ago has started showing its age but in its prime was about 1½ times the cost of a console for triple the power, now 1½ the cost of a console more or less gets you a console.
Part of that is the horrendous inflation of PC parts, particularly the GPUs, but also that the hobby has shifted away from being competitive against consoles to having no chance of being cost competitive. When they stopped being in competing fields, the cost of PC parts just exploded.
But let’s be hopeful, CPU (especially desktop) were kinda advancing very slowly for a decade or so & have now picked up significantly (eg a mid tier i5 gen 13 or 14 basically outperforms all gen 10, including my 5900x home server, it’s just an actual advancement which I haven’t seen in a long time, and yes, I blame AMD for it, Im glad they are going strong).
I’ve only had two consoles, the 2600 and PS5 (which I only used to pay two games, lul). And I basically now have a desktop PC that I mostly use as a console (except for fps, I needs my mouser for that) or for music.
I’ve had a (probably wrong) take on the ridiculous direction modern GPUs have gone, that isn’t just because of crypto mining, ridiculous profit margins and machine learning. From when I got into the hobby until the release of the PS5 and whatever Xbox competed with it, if you built a PC at a similar budget to a console, it would consistently outperform it. The PC I built 8 years ago has started showing its age but in its prime was about 1½ times the cost of a console for triple the power, now 1½ the cost of a console more or less gets you a console.
Part of that is the horrendous inflation of PC parts, particularly the GPUs, but also that the hobby has shifted away from being competitive against consoles to having no chance of being cost competitive. When they stopped being in competing fields, the cost of PC parts just exploded.
Can’t disagree there.
But let’s be hopeful, CPU (especially desktop) were kinda advancing very slowly for a decade or so & have now picked up significantly (eg a mid tier i5 gen 13 or 14 basically outperforms all gen 10, including my 5900x home server, it’s just an actual advancement which I haven’t seen in a long time, and yes, I blame AMD for it, Im glad they are going strong).
I’ve only had two consoles, the 2600 and PS5 (which I only used to pay two games, lul). And I basically now have a desktop PC that I mostly use as a console (except for fps, I needs my mouser for that) or for music.