Why Nobody Is Buying Graphics Cards Anymore

30 Comments

1. Because the cost of a new GPU is insanely expensive.

2. I cannot reasonably justify purchasing a Nvidia 4090 just to play minesweeper.

3. this started as the intentional failure to segregate gpus for mining and for gaming

4. Could be because its only been 2-3 yrs since the majority of console gamers opted to PC since it was difficult to purchase a ps5 so why would anyone opt for another card when they have one already. Sure price is deff an issue as my 3070ti RTX was literally 900 dollars in 2022 in microcenter and now at around 750-800 dollars in cost. Did i need it ? No but lets just say i wont be needing another one for about 5 years lol

5. i think ill be getting 4090 and keep it for 10y at least, dont see the point for 5090 (dont have PC atm)

6. yeah like buying an i5 cpu for $500. Pass.

7. There's to many products.

8. because, graphic cards are way more expensive than all other components combined. rtx4090 price equals one brand new mini van, or a used big van!

9. The GPUs are being bought up to train deep learning models.

10. Aim assist controllers. Sbmm… It's not fun

11. Diminishing returns. For most people a game running good at 1080p is not that much different than a game running good at 4k. 1080 is way easier to render. Also I think developers have learned that punishing people with older hardware is just stupid for business. Make it run good on old hardware and more people will buy it. There really has not been much of a revolution in graphics lately. I was impressed when doom was running on a pentium. I was impressed when I saw mario 64 for the first time. I was impressed when I saw quake 2 on a voodoo graphics card. After that I just have not been that impressed with graphics and hell I like playing NES and SNES games just fine. Good sprite graphics are still great. I can't say what would actually get me interested to dump a lot of money on a new graphics card. It seems like a suckers game now. Just wait a little while and you can get a perfectly fine card for way less.

12. I just buy used cards.

13. Man when Ryzen 5 and a 10 or 20 series card still get the job done… With how the world is right now, yeah…..

14. Saved up and got a 7900xtx 24gb and a LG C2. This one should last me even longer than yhe 10 years my 960 2gb gave me(fingers crossed). Built my resonable dream build and will love it until it dies.

15. I truly believe that the 5070-5070ti will be amazing bang for buck, I'll wait for that or a MASSIVE price drop on the 40's series.
    AMD is looking good, but for the price they are charging, their driver should improve a couple steps (last one was a good one as far as I heard)…
    I have a GTX1070 and while it's getting there, I think it'll still hold well for another year or so, if I had to exchange card right now I'd go with the 6950, no doubt.

16. I'm still rocking a 1060 on my desktop and my laptop has a RX 560. I'm able to play most of what I want. Waiting on the next gen gpu's before I build a new pc

17. what is this game with racing 4:21 and what gpu is needed for that performance?

18. Im still running a 1050 5 gb card and its doing just fine

19. For the longest time the highest cost graphics card was $500-700. Then all of a sudden $1000+ and soon after that $3000-$4000 for cards that aren't worthy of that price.

    Games are dying too in terms of innovation and graphics. Crysis was the last game I remember that really accelerated the growth/interest in computer advancedment for GPUs.

20. Personal i use full hd 30 fps ray tracing, if new game run for me ok i dont care other shit. Rly ihave rtx 2060 super and faster i bay anoter console for new UE5 games then only GPU for higher price…

21. True overprice. shit not mater gpu or some laptop is shoot in knee. Normal price is the answer before for 3k you can take nice gaming pc now 3k is minimum for office laptop. Then ppl dont care pey for this crap.

22. The gaming market right now is saturated with pixel remasters, competitive online games and unoptimized triple A titles. Building up a high-end PC for gaming doesn't make much sense.

23. Im still running my EVGA 1070 FTW.
    I almost feel what these companies want is for us to no longer to be enthusiasts gamers without paying the "enthusiast" price.
    I've upgraded my entire PC with the latest and greatest when the 4090 and 4080 was released and was hoping the product stack down the line would be decent. I was ignorant 😒 (to those who say, then buy a 4090 with your i9 13900k and 64 gb of ddr5 ram… it was either the build or 4090 and my i7 4790k was quite a drag.) 😂💀

24. Honestly with how expensive gpus are it's cheaper in the long end to just upgrade your entire bloody rig

25. video cards USED to be like $300-$500 now they are usually over $1200 for a slightly future proof card. gpu's should not cost the same as a mortgage payment.

26. Still using 3060 for apex 🤷🏾‍♂️, low settings anyways for competitive play.

27. getting new glasses improved my graphics!

28. i ain't dealing with any of that crap, how am i supposed to pay a "budget" 200 USD graphics card? It's the price of many WHOLE economic pcs i've found, not to mention you can still get a decent RX 550 4GB for like 80 dollars nowadays, which performs just fine in most of the games, and you'll be able to play bare minimum 30fps low to medium graphics at 720 and 1080p in many less demanding games, it's just not worth going for a 200 dollars graphics card just to play with RTX, or so that the game looks just a bit fine, most competitive games that do require 60 to 144fps aren't even demanding, you can get away with a RX 550 or 560 ande get arround 144fps just by tweaking the graphics configuration in CS:GO or valorant, so it's just worthless to spend that much money on a graphic card, specially when inflation kicks in and you live in a country that just won't have that much availability on graphic cards.

    Oh, not to mention the fact that most of the time is not only the graphic card, would've been fine if that was the only thing, but if you're planning to do serious upgrades and you want a decent graphic card to play at high guess what, they consume a lot, so you'll most likely need yet another power supply too to feed that hungry bitch, and then you'll also need a case because guess what, now apparently there are graphics card the size of a freaking PS2, you want to overclock to fully utilize that graphics cards? Well then fuck you you'll also need a whole new motherboard with overclocking capabilities, you don't want bottleneck? Then you'll also need a better processor, all that sums up, it's obviously not all, sometimes your pc already has a decent power supply and not a decent motherboard, and the opposite, but my point is for someone that wants to start playing seriously this hardware world makes it really hard with incompatibilities, you have to investigate every, single, inch, just to build a proper decent pc that works as intended, or pay 1.5x the price on a pre-built pc for the service of "building it for you".

    i forgot the monitors oh boy, you'll be forced to buy one if you get a decent graphics card just for the sake of "playing above 60fps", and a decent 75 to 144hz monitor can cost up to twice an average 16:9 FHD 60hz monitor.

29. Because gpu are expensive and older games are better.

30. Prices are ridiculous and my last gen GPU gets me very good framerates at very good settings at 4K.
    Regularly updating used to be an expensive luxury. Now it's like you are humiliating yourself.