Your graphics card sucks, and that's ok! 

The internet does a fantastic job of warping the perspective of what normal people actually want most of the time.

so normal people dont have such disposable income to buy flagship parts?? shocker

To be fair, building even just midrange gaming pc feel expensive for most people 😢

Wee need more of upside down Daniel cursor :D

0:37 welcome to Australia 🇦🇺 upside down Daniel 😅😂🤣😉!

Yeah the vast majority of people really don't care to dump thousands of $$$ to run Alan Wake 2 at 1080p. I'm included in that group. Of my pc won't be able to run it, I'm not gonna run out and finance a $1500 pc just to play the latest handful of games I can't run. If I can't run it, oh well. I'm not very well off financially, I get by. But just barely, constantly on the verge of poverty and I'm sure I'm the more common case in the US over the people who have the money to dump into a brand new flagship GPU ever year. If game companies want to make money, they'll make sure their games run on the old hardware, that's the majority. If they don't care about sales, then by all means keep pumping out Alan Wake 2 games with minimum specs being $1200 in hardware.

"Why no have $1000 GPU? U poor bro?" Yes. Most people are poor.

Another thing apart from these online games being played on a daily basis as compared to single player games, is that the majority of the people still have 1080p displays which doesn't really need a powerful GPU whether the choice of game is single player or multiplayer (exception would be a few path tracing titles)

because most of the people in the world work for a living and with a "normal" salary, most of us gamers want quality, and bang for the buck, in the "normal" spectrum of people, how is possible to spend a $2000 just in a gpu when a console is at $500? I'm still rocking my 3060 12gb, all competitive games on ultra 165fps+ and AAA games like Cyberbug 2077 with Ray Tracing med/high with DLSS 60-70fps (1080p), all my adobe suite and Autodesk for work runs smooth as butter. I live in country where the minimal wage is at $490 ish so yeah, maths.

TLDR: The steam hardware survey is taken from every stupid computer in the world that has steam installed. And most of those computers don't play the latest and greatest most demanding games. Most of them are just fine playing older or non demanding games.

great video and good point.... shows many who build a gaming rig, only game, where as others who may play games but not to the extent of the lists shown in the video, but also do other tasks such as video editing, animation, 3D modeling etc

Thank you for bringing this up, usually tech reviewers only focus on the most demanding games and that is fine they use them as benchmark tools. But in real life most people play games that are not super demanding, and when we do we tweak the settings because we do not have the best hardware.

I really wish Steam would show hardware stats based on filters like a PCs with more than 10 hours in a selected game and region

I'm constantly noticing the huge disparity between what (awful) AAA titles reviewers are testing with, and what games people actually love to play. It's getting really ridiculous in an age where more and more people prefer indie-like games, and less and less people appreciate AAA games. Where are the games like Helldivers 2, Palworld, Valheim, Satisfactory, Enshrouded, Grounded, etc. in review videos?

This is why use case is so important. While seeing how their cards perform on the newer games is nice and good info, it also doesn't reflect on what games you'll be playing. Like for me I can get by just fine cuz my use case is more for older games I never really got to experience before (or playing the same games but on PC now) so a card that's a bit older will do just fine for me, compared getting a newer card to do that.

I'm so sick of the industry focusing games as graphics intensive as possible. It's not what people actually care about in their day to day lives, but they need to find any way they can to get us to buy more expensive games and equipment and praying on our fomo, when really, 90% gamers don't actually care in real life, they just think they do

That is crazy. The most hated games and cards in the comments are actually the most popular and most used. The loudest ones represent the minority. No wonder nothings changing.

I think that 10 or 15 years ago there were bigger strides in game graphics from year to year. Now a game that is 5 years old can look about as good as one just released. Also with the massive number of games available on steam there are so many good older games that new GPUs are less important.

RTX3060 12GB is very popular among gamera because of the fact that it has 12GB VRAM and it's actually affordable card, basically everyone can buy it. For 1080p its perfect and majority of the gamers are still on 1080p.

Follows the meme of "Buys a 4090, mainly plays 10+ year old games". The group I raid with in FFXIV two bought 3090s, but mostly played older games and FFXIV. Hell I bought a 7900 XTX last year and mostly player older games. It isn't that none of us play newer games on our PCs, the games we are interested in aren't the big AAA junk that mostly gets released now. When reviewing new GPUs, you need to push them to their limits. Otherwise it would be the older games and easy to run esports titles. It is fun to see Rainbow Six Siege getting over 600 FPS, doesn't mean much of anything honestly. I think GPU reviews are great for showing what *can* be done and are good for the information they provide. I think they mean more at the low end through mid range stuff, whatever that means now.

Influencers are a little out of touch due to all the free samples they get. $400-800 "mid-range" is insane and that is why no one cares about GPU's anymore. If it plays most popular games that's enough for most people as money doesn't grow on trees and gaming is a want and not a need.

I am still using a Vega 56 as I refuse to pay for the current overpriced cards. Its actually great, rather than buying new games I am going through my stream list of unplayed games I was 'going to play one day' and I am not playing them with no problems at all.

Our whole financial system is really built around us wanting the "latest and greatest". We would like to think that we are not influenced or affected by internet media. We would like to believe that we are in control, but in most cases we are exploited and influenced by marketing tactics. We could actually just stop consuming new tech and be happy with what we have. I mean, there's objectively SO many fantastic games on the market today that we could easily keep ourselves occupied for the rest of our lives if we wanted to, but the whole consumerism apparatus within our capitalistic system make us believe that we always need to chase the "next big thing". Keep in mind that the US isn't really representative of the rest of the world due to how much purchasing power people have. Sure, living can be REALLY expensive there, but consumption in comparison is relatively cheap. In most other places it's the other way around, living is cheap but consumption is expensive (or everything is just super expensive). With that being said there's a whole hardware industry in China which caters to less fortunate markets where they create brand new "legacy motherboards" and selling them as a kit with re-purposed CPUs and memory modules. I bought a brand new B75 motherboard that had a modern 4x nvme slot (which didn't exist at the time), a Core i5 3570 and 16GB DDR3 for 58$. I added a GTX1060, a 512GB nvme I had laying around. This became my partners "brand new" gaming rig. :) It's running Manjaro (Linux) and the whole desktop experience feels (dare I say it?) snappier than most modern powerful Windows setups due to how incredibly efficient the OS is. The gaming performance is more than enough to play the games she enjoys to play (like The Sims 4, Tetris Effect, Stardew Valley, Overcooked 2, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Retro emulation etc.) She would never be able to tell a difference between her computer and a modern rig either. It's functional, it does everything she needs it too, and I promise you, she will keep this machine for 10+ years if nothing drastically happen to legacy CPU compatibility in Linux.

One suggestion, highly moddable games, mods can greatly up the requirements of a title. Where without mods the title might cap at 1440p textures but a mod might push it to 4k textures. Not just pushing textures but but improving the AI. After even a few mods will almost double the requirements of an older title. If not triple with things added like more post processing effects not even present otherwise. Bethesda titles are big for that. Cities Skylines isn't new, but even unmodded can really hammer requirements once you get a larger city going and again with the mods pushing those higher.

Remember all the idiots last year who said the rtx40 will never crack the top 10?! Lmao. "Rtx40 isn't selling guys! Really! Believe me! I heard it on the internet, no one's buying them!"

You should also take into account, that most people are still on 1080p screens, and you don't need a lot for that(they also don't use RT) this means a 3060 ti & 3070 will completely blast through 1080p and will be no problem for 3060 4060 even a 2060 is fine if you use DLSS Q with optimized settings. Also in the most played games chart are mostly MP games, cause heavy AAA SP games will be played only once after you finish the campaign, that's it and you won't play again soon, whereas MP games like Helldivers 2 or CS 2 or WZ are meant to be played as a live service, and you won't be bored that easily, cause it's not the same.

Link to the Info Gatterer? Of the top 10 games. I wanna see the map bigger/clearer.

Hi Daniel, at2:50 we could not read the percentages in the November column - please consider make yourself a little smaller. :)

My perspective is that the only thing that truly matters is what you own. Other people are cool comparisons, but they mean nothing to your individual purchasing decision.

Not everyone is rich bruh, very few can afford an rtx 4070, 4080, 4090 , some has kids, some has bills to pay, some has rent to pay, some only have allowance for disposable income

but would an internet cafe type of place really skew the results? I mean the gpu people are using is the gpu people are using regardless of where/how

The peer pressure to build a 4090/14900k rig is just too high...

PUBG, DotA, WoW... Lots of other popular games that are also old but didn't quite make the cut.

My brother plays games, streams, and edits videos on a GTX 1070 and an i5-9500 PC I built him a few years ago. He doesn't play any new games, he doesn't care about modern hardware or upgrades, and he definitely doesn't care about raytracing. That PC plays all his games at 120fps amazingly. The most intensive games he plays are older games like Quake Champions and The Old Republic. Works for him and he's perfectly content. I have a close friend that has a Macbook for his school and professional work and a GTX 1050 Ti and i5-7400 for his gaming and editing. And guess what? He doesn't care. He can play Helldivers, Lethal Company, and Minecraft perfectly on that computer. My personal PC has a Ryzen 5 5700x and an RX 6600. I don't play new games. I do minimal video editing and digital art, and it works perfectly for me. Moral of the story: most people are content with what they have. Lots or people still play older games because most of the best games to ever play are already out and are probably very easy to run. Computer components are expensive and with how bad the economy is and the price of housing, there are definitely a lot better things to do with your money, and if you can save a couple bucks by playing older games with your friends or keeping that old socket 1151 PC for a little longer then by all means do it. There's no reason to upgrade if you're content with what you have and what you play.

WAIT! HOW CRAB GAME IS STILL ALIVE?!!??!?!

There are plenty of people that play the latest AAA games, but they will never represent a large group. Same goes for enthusiasts that buy high end hardware.

Ive been saying reviewers should be benchmarking the more popular games for YEARS. Show me benchmarks for Overwatch or Fortnite or GTA, not some game thats only popular for a few months.

I feel like an important thing to note is that there is a huge variety of Games out there... and Of the top 10 games on the Steam list I only ever touched Baldur's Gate 3 (though I plan to get Hell Divers 2 later). However none of the other titles on that list even align with my interests. I think an important thing to do is to try to get different genres of games. For example, there is FPS games, RTS strategy games (like Stellaris or Hearts of Iron), Turn-Based Strategy games like Civilization, you have story-driven RPG games like Neir Automata or Cyberpunk 2077, and there are many other genres I haven't even mentioned.... and all of those genres have different needs/expectations for what you'll want to run in terms of hardware.

The most demanding game I play is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 with add-on aircraft at 4K. CPU is i7 14700K and GPU is RTX 4070 Ti Super. Unfortunately MSFS only gets ~65 unless the aircraft is at a high altitude, say above 20,000 feet, then I get 90 to 100FPS. At airports it often drops into the 30s. Graphic settings are high to ultra, DLSS Super Resolution @ Quality.

Testing out the newest stuff is important to know whether you're getting your money's worth and that's really important for purchase decisions. For example in the gaming laptop space, it is generally agreed that 2024's gaming laptops aren't any better performance-wise (even the flagship models), so the smarter purchase decision is to go for something from 2023.

1660/S/Ti are hidden used gems. Got one for 50$ for a secondary PC. Close behind 2060 performance without the RTX features, same generation. Similar price to what people ask for on second hand market for much worse cards. People either forget the 1660 series existed at all, or assume it's part of 10 series rather than 20 series.

To be fair, the counts from LAN centers needs to be factored in because it is about how many people are playing with the specs of gaming rig, not the amount of people owning it so I personally thinks that it is totally relevant. And I also wanted to add in with why reviews should be done with a newer game, I would argue that the gamer would really wanna know the specs of their rig to target the in game performance they are looking for, the games might not be that popular now, but you will never know that it could be a Steam sales away or a sudden resurgence of interest from their favourite streamers streaming the game (like it is with Monster Hunter World) or maybe a new update/DLC/expansion release. And I definitely agree with most of the commenters that are saying that "I can play all my games at 120+ fps @ FHD with my 3060/3060 Ti", I believe that most of their game are most probably old (but still way more enjoyable than most new games) or targeting esports performance. I used to ran a 60 Hz FHD monitor and heck, most of the game I played hit the refresh rate cap with just i7 2600k + 1070 Ti.

your genuine humor upside down is just gold. no bullshit. just pure passion in sharing these. and thank you

for the cost of top end GPU you can build a full PC and that is madness

Quite a few of those games are online mmo's, for which you need a decent internet connection, so any decent videocard will do. I am still rocking a rx 6600 xt playing things like FS19, FS22, WoW, EVEOnline on a HTPC (TV). I do have a rx 6900xt in my main rig but I use that rig not primarely for gaming.

Most of the games that I enjoy are either from the 90s, or they're graphically simple strategy games that punish the CPU and RAM. I like trying out new, nice-looking games sometimes, but I almost invariably find that if a game looks amazing(in 3D), it's basically an engine demo, with boring gameplay...or terrible optimization.

I've always wondered why so many modern games tailor to a market that just doesn't exist. They rely so heavily on DLSS etc to make up for the severe lack of optimization and I think it's why you often see high spikes, followed by harsh downward trends in people playing modern games. Very interesting observation you made re: the games being played, even now referring to steam charts, crazy how many of the DAUs on steam just play old games. There are so many games I've bought that I either don't play or refund purely because they don't run well even on steams "Recommended Specs". I just find it confusing.

I upgraded from an RX 580 to a 7600XT and I couldn't be happier with it, I personally think it performs pretty well with my 1080p display and in most games I play I saw a double in FPS, which is very important since I have a 144hz display. I don't think going second hand is a smart idea and I couldn't justify spending more than the $300 I spent for an upgrade.

Technically Valve can filter some of those Internet Café duplicates by seeing if the the hardware configuration is unique (i.e. hashing the mac address or some other unique device ID for example and rejecting entries from accounts that come from that same system). Also I think there are special Internet Café Valve account types that have games owned by the Café inherited by the customers temp account. So Valve could just exempt those from the survey.

I recently upgraded from a laptop of 9 years to a ryzen5 2600 gtx1060 (that was upgraded to a rx6700xt a couple weeks ago) system, not because I _wanted_ a better system, but because I *needed* it to do work, my old pc could not properly run most of the software I needed to do my job, so I had to upgrade. I would have been fine with my old laptop if that wasn't the case. People are mostly content with what they have in terms of hardware as long as it does the job they need it to do. Not everyone wants a 4k 60fps AAA experience, and even less people can actually afford it. PC parts might not be the most expensive it's ever been, but it's definitely not cheap for an average PC user.

as someone only playing games like AOE2 and YGOMD, i too dont need to upgrade my 2070Super anytime soon. Although i did upgrade my CPU to a Ryzen 7 5700X to have the last generation for my AM4 socket board last year now the prices have come way down.

When there was a lot of drama around 8GB GPUs I said that in the grand scheme of things a lot of people would not know or care and this is why. A lot of popular games are either old or easy to run and there's people who buy PCs to only play LoL or Dota, or fortnite or whatever. Of course we don't want $400 8GB cards in 2024 but that segment of the market is so well serviced that realistically neither AMD or Nvidia can move the needle down there. How are you going to convince a guy playing fortnite or LoL or Dota at 1080p to upgrade from his 1060 or 2060? A lot of people play those games at potato settings even if they have a card capable of maxing them out anyway.

Hey, how the main language can be simplified chineese ? steam users in china are only cyber cafés so lets assume thats why there is no 7800xt in the survey even its the most sold gpu since 6 months now. Good analysis

I'm playing on a 12GB RTX 3060. I bought it for 1080p and the only thing holding my setup from achieving 60+fps on high settings with RT is the absence of FSR3 on important titles such as Cyberpunk 2077.

People tend to play games that their GPU can run. Someday i'll be able to upgrade my 1050 to something better and i'll try all the new games out there. Is that day coming soon? That's why i keep looking your videos

I'm still using my 1060 3gb. Fine for the most games I play.. There are very rare cases like ICARUS tho, I wanted to play it and it would just refuse to run at all because low VRAM. In Helldivers 2 I managed to get ~50ish FPS which is definitely playable and worth it. Overall the games I actually want to play a lot still run great/well enough to not care.

I recently upgraded for a 4070 and a 1440p monitor just to play cs2, Valorant and ow2.. I just did it due to having a bit of extra cash that I was able to gather these past couple of months. I was rocking 1080p and a 3060 before that. I don’t really care about these newer single player games but wanted to future proof my setup so I don’t need to upgrade anymore

I do still play the new thing from time to time so i guess I need it, but like for years i just played Dead By Daylight and that games not demanding. Now it's Helldivers 2, which i feel you do need at least a mid end PC to enjoy. Not surprised though that the most popular ones are all MP games with years of service behind them. But like I wanna play STALKER later this year, and I bought DD2. I'd say my PC is around $1500, and i built it myself. I can't imagine buying a prebuilt ones price.

Old games are still fun to play. I still play Freespace 2, 25 years on. I still play Command & Conquer 3, over a decade on. I still play Borderlands 2, 9 years on. Yes, I have a RTX 4090 and it allows me to play them at 4k with everything cranked to the highest levels. But I think you're missing something: market segmentation (or, as Newzoo calls them, gaming-related target group). Single player vs multiple player. And, more subtly, co-op vs competitive. The more graphically gorgeous games (e.g. Elden Ring) tend to be single player. Perhaps this is also a wake-up call for you: who is your target audience? Beyond that, I would be very interested in seeing you discuss the statistics with Newzoo in such a way that your students (mid-teens if memory serves) - and thus we your viewers - can understand.

sometimes the reality are something that are not in the "spotlight". i saw some people talk how going forward developer will stop making PC games or not porting their games to PC because new hardware like GPU are getting more and more expensive. it will be the dead of PC gaming. or how thing like with 8GB VRAM you will be stuck at low setting only in a year or two even at 1080p. they see games like hogwarts or TLOU and see them use bajillion of VRAM and assume every game (including indie games) will be that demanding going forward. and yet here we are. i haven't seen yet where games that cannot start at all because it only have 8GB VRAM.

Only thing I learned is that Rimworld (my most played game on the last two years) is 19th?!!! I guess the new DLC is moving well.

Lets be honest, latest titles come out broken, boring or remakes of games we already own. Also, gpu prices are still ridiculous, not everyone wants to buy a 400 or above price point to play the games that dont need them.

Games that can run on more hardware are more popular. What a surprise. Not.

My most played games recently are Europa Universalis IV and Final Fantasy XIII. Both over 10 years old and look absolutely fine to my eyes. It allows me to avoid being quite frankly ripped off by current graphics card prices.

My backlog reaches games from 2013… So yeah I upgraded to 4090 + 5800x3d on release and a LG 48C2. But the I realized I am not that interested in gaming anymore as when I was young and mainly just sometimes play with friends online in MP games. I sold 4090 (for more than release price) and 5800x3d and bought 4070S + Ryzen 5600 and ps5 and a tablet. The iPad Pro + ps5 made me game more than a 4090.

I sold my ($650) Asus Strix OC 3060 Ti to a guy that was trying to put complete an affordable computer build. He got one sweet deal, getting that for $240. It's still a rock solid card.

GTA 6 will cause a massive uptick in flagship components being used

This is why marketing only your flagship models is not a good idea. 9 out of 10 people don't care about flagship parts. For gpus, they tend to shop xx50, xx60, or xx70. Focusing solely on flagships while virtually ignoring the mid range side of the market is sad and disgusting.

I used newzoo years and I'm happy to see that you also found it 😂

I think a good addon to this is yes, most people don't play the most demanding games but most of those cards can still play the most demanding games even if at lower graphical settings. I have a 2060 super and play everything I want including new games but as long as the games I play regularly perform well I am willing to have sacrifices in the very demanding games I don't play too often. This video kind of makes it seem like people with those GPUs don't play demanding games but they most likely do just not as much as other, more popular games.

The 3060 12GB was the upgrade for High Textures, Med/High Setting. It was the double-up on the 1060 6GB in every way. It was panned by snobs at the time, but look at it now.. its the Toyota Corolla of GPUs 😉 These peole wont upgrade again until the X060 24GB comes along 🤣

I love my old games, they are mostly simulation games so my 1050 laptop can handle really well at 1080p. But the cpu struggles a lot at late game stage, where all the fun happenes.

I upgrade my rig when War Thunder doesn't run properly. My 5800X3D/6800XT combo (6800xt was a freebie, btw) should be good for a while. I upgraded from an FX-8120/RX570 combo.

I built a high end system last year. The first game i played on it was Speedrunners with friends.

resolution matters. most ppl are on 1080p displays, which a low end budget card will handle pretty much anything at that resolution. owners of big bad cards with hefty price tags are primarily going to be running 4k or high refresh 1440p displays, which require more brute force to handle all those pixels.

Yeah gaming (at least console or PC gaming) used to be more homogenous till some years ago but there is more of a divide today even leaving aside the Mobile vs Core gaming divide. There is that crowd that wants to experience all the latest games with maxed effects at 4k on an OLED but there is the crowd that is at the opposite end of the spectrum too.

i think there is a level of people looking to buy a gpu and building their own pc are more likely to be specifically looking to do something relativley demading with it. The audience for individual gpus are pretty enthusiast in that respect. One thing that a lot of games in the top 10 list have in common is that the people playing them on pc often don't have a strong sense of what their hardware even is. Like minecraft, roblox, fortnite, league of legends, valorant, these are games that people will just play on computers they arlready own, they aren't games that necessarily require a dedicated gaming rig and so although a lot of people are playing them, they might not necessarily be represnatative of the gpu consumer base at least during the shopping experinece. Afterwards is a different story, personally i know a lot of people who buy a gaming pc to play the lastest games only to spend most of their time playing these older established titles. Whole lot of expensive gaming rigs out there almost exclusivley playing minecraft

I can completely relate to these Steam stats as someone who almost never plays latest games. I used to own a 1050ti, then 2060, then 3060ti gddr6x to this day. There are also much more people than we think who don't upgrade for a long time, few of my friends had GPUs like 1060 and 1070 up until 2024. 40 series cards come in lower in charts because Steam is not as saturated with newer cards yet as it is with older

I don't need a review of the performance of the hardware and games I already have/play. I already know the performance I'm getting.

kind of truth im on 1060 6gb since years, and i mostly play league of legends and FIfa which works fine with that card but i plan to upgrade to like 4060

8:52 I actually don't think that makes sense, and your video here proved it. Buying the latest graphics technology is expensive, the latest games are far and few, only some will require current gen graphics to run smoothly, and even that's a stretch as I was thinking Cyberpunk 2077 which is not a new game anymore and I beat that game between 2 PCs that I had a RTX 2080 on one and a GTX 1660 Ti on another. The latter played just fine without RT, ultra 1080p getting average 45 fps. There are games like A Plague Tale Requiem that very hardware tasking as my ARC A770 struggled to get 50-60 fps at 1440p very high. , but then again a ARC A770 is like a 2070 Super in performance, so again not really necessary to have the latest GPU. Some new games like WWE 2K24 will work just fine on GPU tech from 2018 since its not moving the goal post of tech requirement on the console side making sure they keep PS4/Xbox One in the loop with PS5/XSX release, so these titles will be underwhelming on PC hardware. My 2019 built Ryzen 7 3700X paired with a RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary tuned is still my standard bearer for game compatibility at 1080p, I can still run any game I throw at it, albeit I did find myself running out of VRAM when it came to games like The Last of Us Part 2, Diablo 3 & Horizon Forbidden West at 1080p, but remarkably the games do not crash and instead just dulls down the textures.

Internet cafés are using RTX2060 and below and there are tons of them... Especially in developing countries like in Asia

other thing is those games are often played by kids who don't have money or resources to get a sweet gaming setup

I really think that Valve could solve the Internet Cafe issue with the Steam Survey by blocking IP addresses that have more than 10, 20, or 30 different accounts accessing Steam from the same IP address in a single month. I currently give very little credit to the data in this survey... And I especially hate that it gets such wide coverage in the tech press every month! Daniel, I do really appreciate your balanced coverage of this though...

I upgraded for those reasons: 1 My card was noisy 2 I saved for 2 years to have vision or aero gpu from gigabyte 3 I wanted more vram because I use rtx and dlss and I was actually reaching the limits in some of my games. Then I upgraded to a 4060ti 16g despite it’s a terrible value, because the 4070 was too expensive for me and was overkill for 1080p. Ofc we all want a 4090, but actually the 60 serie keeps being more popular because it’s decent enough and most people have other things to pay. Also having a big card and not using its full potential is a waste of precious resources. (It’s better to buy according to our needs and change later if the needs change)

Not to mention AMD coming out with FSR/Frame Gen on older cards, gives them more life and value. My CPU made me upgrade my whole PC more than my 1070 GPU

Most of the players will play on 1080p.. for that and for the top games you do not need anything more powerful then 3060. I mean you could play these games at 60fps at low with a 1650 GDDR6. I am still chugging with 1050Ti but have upgraded to a 1650 GDDR6 (in the mail). That will give me around 40-50% boot over 1050Ti.

Me with my 6800xt playing Oblivion modded of course but still. I do also currently play Horizon Forbidden West and Dragons Dogma 2 but yeah, I've been getting back into Oblivion recently for no real reason. I did get this card with the intention of not upgrading until I absolutely need to though so still worth it. Highest end card I ever bought myself too.

lol my GPUs not even in the top 5 (7900 GRE) but not going to lie i have also been playing alot less demanding games like Rimword and Stardew Valley since the new updates are pretty epic, When i do use my card to its full potential its usually for Racing Sims, WW2 Combat Sims or Tactical FPS Shooters like Ground Branch or even Sons of The Forest maxed out

I've been saying this for a few years now, upper midrange - high-end GPUs only make sense if you either play VR games or do other things than gaming with your GPU that benefit from more performance. (I mean yeah 4k, but I'm the kinda guy who always prefers 1440p with more fps over 4k). So these charts makes total sense. Most games don't need a crazy high end GPU and most people overspend when they build a PC. After all you can still totally enjoy most single player games with mid quality and stable 30fps. Meaning, the point where you really "have to" upgrade your GPU because a game won't even start or barely run at all is way way down the line.

that sad top 10 games list 😭

See back in the day though I had a radeon HD 7950 and it was a $150 card that still played all the latest games at a decent framerate. That CAN'T be said of GPUs like the 3050, which is more expensive and is struggling

I've been running my passively cooled GeForce GT 710 for the past five years. Soon to upgrade to a 7900 GRE though!

Maybe doing both types of reviews.

I have a 4070Ti and I play a lot of older titles, my last card was a 3070 and I could’ve done with that a little longer, but .. yeah I dunno why I spent 1k on a graphics card. Gave in into the hype I guess. At least that will keep me going for a while.

Gonna be playing BeamNG in VR after this video... I pray for my 2070 SUPER. I'll update you later

I had a 1060 (Had it since December 2016) until January this year and upgraded to a 4070 Super. I didn't feel the need for a GPU that powerful but I wanted something that will last me a good while. If I had the 1060 for so long then the 4070 Super should hopefully last me at least as long. I have a 1080p 240hz monitor. I used DLDSR with DLSS if available to get a much sharper/cleaner image. In 5 years, my 4070S will be a 1080p card anyway. With the way games are advancing in graphics where software ray tracing might be the new Raster and Path tracing might be the new ray tracing... I do not expect current GPUs to last as long before feeling aged. Going with high end is not worth it. Ultra settings in most cases are not worth it. Buy something affordable for you right now. Then in roughly 3 years, try to sell it to claw some of that money back and hopefully you have saved up enough to buy the same tier GPU but latest gen. That is what I am going to do. Gonna skip the RTX 5000 series and wait for RTX 6000 to see if selling my GPU and buying a 6070 will be worth it

The reason why these unimpressive gpus are so prevalent is because a ton of people buy prebuilt systems and the prebuilders load them up with the gpus no one will buy off the shelf. Then the people who bought those systems never open the pc and just end up playing the games they are able to play on those systems. Making those games the most played.

Playing MW3 with a 2060 Super on low graphics is still running at over 120 FPS. It's hard to make an argument for the need to upgrade unless I buy a non competitive game, permitting the luxury of prioritizing looking pretty over winning. I suspect there's a 5060 Super or TI in my future once such a card is released next year. I'm really getting my moneys worth out of the 2060 Super.

I bought a 4080 Super two months ago. The games I have played so far after my purchase were Arkham Knight, Hades, Frostpunk, Stardew Valley, and Baldur's Gate. I realized that I got an overpowered card for my needs.