How long should you wait before upgrading your GPU?

all right Tim this is a a what-if sort of type question maybe I'll read it out eh how long they would say on average do gpus typically last how long do gpus typically last I guess it depends on how many times you drop them as far as being modern enough to be usable um yeah basically that's that's the question how long do they remain relevant for yeah I mean obviously this depends on the sort of price segment that you're buying it I mean like I mean you have to say these days that a 1080 TI is still usable for games whereas a 980 TI is less so um so 982 has probably GTX 1070 levels of performance which would probably be RTX 2060 levels of performance which would probably be like RTX 3050 actually no it's a 980 TI yeah okay yeah it'd probably be a little bit better than that but somewhere somewhere in there probably optimization yeah not much vram for memories and only a four gig card the 980 TI is it uh six gig from memory going back you're testing my memory there right but I guess if you're buying a high-end card he could theoretically last five six seven years and still be playable but the issue is you're buying a high-end card so you wouldn't want to go from playing nice high resolution ultra settings to in seven years playing 1080p low settings yeah that's the main issue there the the the sort of the answer there is especially at the high end I would say your Flagship to your graphics card is good for two years realistically three is Max as a high-end product which is what you're buying yeah so I always find it weird when people say oh I'd buy an RTX 49 because it will last five years and it's sure it's like you go from today's 4K raytrace games and then in seven years you're playing 1080p low quality or maybe not even that it's a weird investment yeah it's a weird investment don't definitely don't think that way or you'll go about things that way because that's you you have to be constantly down uh downwards adjusting your expectations yeah which is weird um so generally if you're buying a flagship product You're Expecting Flagship like performance you can probably accept a bit of it you know she's getting a bit old and you let it degrade a little bit but not not like that save the money for a product like that you'll probably have money in the future for more products like well yeah that's right and if you don't if it's a real stretch to get your hands on a flagship card just buy the next one down and do that yep just accept that you're you're a step down that's fine performance there is great and you'll honestly be better off for it because you'll be an upgrade more regularly and you're better maintain you know second tier performance which is still screaming fast uh and then I guess really that applies for everything like at the mid-range I think the mid-range is where you could probably stretch it out a bit longer and still be relatively satisfied and then at the entry level you go back the other way to the high end but for a different reason it just becomes unusable it's much faster yeah I think the mid-range it's almost related to like what performance gains have we see in each of those categories over the years where it's like a lot of people would say that you'd upgrade once performance is 50 faster it tends to be the sort of threshold for a lot of people and what we've seen recently is that the high end is frequently hitting 50 faster even every one generation or at the very least two generations is going to give you 50 at the high end whereas for the mid-range 50 could be these days we're probably looking at 17 to 18 Generations so but more likely at least like three generations right so oh I was listening to you and thinking oh is he saying but it feels slow right like it does feel slow you know the high end gets treated to these massive gains every year and then the mid-range at least at the same price they're giving you 10 15 which is really pathetic yeah it's multiple Generations so 50 that's for sure yeah certainly if you're targeting 50 then you're gonna make the GPU stretch for that long and you might say oh yeah but games are going to outpace that like if they if games are getting much more powerful to run on those higher gpus then my GPU is going to get outdated more quickly but that's not really what we see from games most game developers still Target primarily those mid-range systems because that is the majority of people that are actually going to buy the game most people have 1060s 20 60s those class of products so yeah if game developers are still targeting games that on gpus that are not improving that much then theoretically you could stretch that quite away you know it may still be that Medium setting experience or a lower resolution than what you get in the hind which is typically the case for mid-range products anyway but yeah it's very likely that you'll stretch it further especially these days where games have both rasterization and Ray tracing generally The rasterization Experience can still be good still run well on those mid-range cards for some time it heavily depends on the generation as well obviously some generations do bring much more substantial performance improvements at every single performance tier whereas the other ones are touring yeah I mean people who bought an RX 580 for example or even a GTX 1060 would have been treated to quite a long tail on that product like those were usable for a lot longer whereas I think people who bought a GTX 1650 are probably going to find that card does not have anywhere near the staying power of those yeah those are excellent and travel cards from five five to seven years because it was already rubbing shoulders with like an RX 570 when it was launched yeah I mean it wasn't good launched so yeah so it was it was already struggling to improve upon the value of multiple generation old products at the time of launch so clearly bad value product which was always going to represent bad value and we've seen other products like that more recently like a GTX 1630 6500 XT all very bad value Investments that really should have quite obviously been avoided because they had no legs in them at all yeah so I think generally I'd say overall you're looking at between two and five years for most gpus which I know sounds like a large broad spectrum but high-end two years-ish mid-range you can probably stretch it for five years um yeah depends on a lot of factors depends on the performance to your the actual generation you're talking about whether it's like a pascal type generation or a turing type generation yeah it depends how long companies want to support the drivers as well some sometimes you see one generation supporter for a surprisingly long time and other times you see companies drop support surprisingly quickly which can go the other way so or just not really strive as for months even if it's a previous generation series with that happened but anyway that's that question

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Published: Fri Mar 24 2023