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PC GAF what is the Max you would pay for a GPU

I think the key aspect of this question would be whether I have options.

If the most expensive choice is not the only choice, then I'm happy to settle for a less powerful card.

However, if there are literally no options except the most expensive one, I'd probably be willing to pay more than the market will ever get to on pricing.
 
Spent 1900 on my 4090 FE, I'm officially tapped out.

If achievements were more satisfying I'd play alot more pc gaming but that sucked the fun out of pc gaming for me, fuck that.
 
In my mind, $699 or less... But I bought a 4080 Super FE at launch... so $999 with some hype and disposable cash... so easily persuaded. :(
 
GermanZepp said:
In my country a rtx 5090 starts from usd 4.000/ 4500. And a rtx 5080 is usd 1750.

Edit: it's cheaper to fly to Miami buy one and return.
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It's similar in my country, ~$3500 - $4500 today when converting currencies, it varies depending on which brand you want.

As for the thread question, I'll pay whatever I need to pay. I'm not going back to consoles and I'll not stop gaming. It's still cheaper than buying a car and I just use that to transport my ass from point A to B to do side quests (work).

I guess once cloud gaming is good enough to not have to deal with queues and if I can't feel the lag I'll use that. It's not there yet.
 
Canadian ? 4k.

But the thing is, it never reach anywhere close to that after the first initial purchase

Like for me it was the 1080ti then 2080ti then 3090 4090 and now 5090.

But after the first purchase, I always sell my card when I get the new one, which offset the price of the new card by 50 to 60%

Like, my 5090 out of pocket cost on me after I sold my 4090 was 1150 Canadian ( dunno 850$ US ?)

Of course luck played part of it. Including getting a 5090 that's close to the MSRP price when it was released.
 
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Probably up to $1200

Anything above $1000 needs to be a 3d rendering workhorse, or have a noticeable uplift for local AI stuff.

If it's just to play better looking games, $500-900 is the amount.
 
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My limits is 5000$ after that fuck it I'm changing hobby.
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5090 is the last one I'll ever buy. Spent almost 2500 for it, 4k for a gaming box is outrageous to me anymore, and I had money for it.

The return on investment with shit os's drivers, and the amount of shit heads cheating ruining my hobby is just too much.

I'll probably invest in cloud and yeah I already here you bitching, but ill go console / cloud for gaming going forward after this
 
If Jensen and Sam doesn't care about games being shipped and sold then count me out, in my mind the 1080ti is perfect but I'm willing to pay 2 grands for perfection that could last me 10 years which again is long gone, that has to be fixed first cause otherwise everything if I describe it as it is is in jeopardy and fake.
 
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 launched on September 19, 2014, with a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $549

^thats my limit anything over around 600 max can fuck off
 
Under 500, because all GPUs below xx90 class are designed with limited VRAM amounts that will make them age like milk (yay planned obsolescence). And xx90 GPUs are simply too expensive to justify the purchase, even though I could afford it.

So I currently prefer to get cheaper GPUs with a decent amount of VRAM like 9060 XT 16GB and upgrade when there is a significant improvement in the same price range (+inflation).
 
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Once upon a time my limit was £350, back when cards were reasonably priced.

My 9070XT cost me more than that, and my impatience made me jump the model because everything was out of stock. But I'd had a bonus from work so I treated myself to a £720 card. If I had waited it would have been the cheaper ~£650 (likely less) model.

I'm always drawn to the price/performance ratio, so high end wallet drainers don't interest me one bit.

It's difficult to speak to future purchases because the industry is in a strange place, but I have no plans to go a price tier above what I currently have.
 
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Currently set my limit at £450 , ideally it would be twice as powerful as my current GPU and have a lot more VRAM

Would have got a 5070 super if they had come out.
 
800€ for a XX80. 950€ for a XX90.

A consumer card going for more than a 1000€ is a fucking scam. And the entry card XX50 shouldn't be more than 125€.
 
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I guess £1000 at a push next time, but the games would have to exist to compel me to do so, which they currently do not. I tend to buy hardware in the best value enthusiast category, not the top end.

3080 will see out this console generation.
 
If it is something that i can keep for a good part if the gen or the entire gen, 1100-1200 is the best i can do.

Hioefully it is gonna be enough for a 6080, i doubt any nextgen console is gonna be remotely close to something like that.
 
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I would pay a couple of grand easily if it was an absolute beast. But, I think ill be sticking to more 1,200 to a maximum. I got my 5080 for £879 that seemed fine for what it delivers.

Looking back and my 4090 was the best buy I ever did I think.
 
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xx80s need to be sub 1000 dollars.
xx90/Titans can be whatever, they are Halo products so the price is effectively irrelvent.

If the RTX 6080 is under 1000 dollars ill jump in early.
If its over 1000 dollars im probably skipping another generation.
 
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I've never spent more than £400 on a GPU. My 5060 Ti 16gb cost that and does everything I'd want it to. I have no interest in going for the xx80 or xx90 cards the benefit doesn't come close to matching the cost for me, heck the vast majority of them won't even fit in my ITX case.

If future xx60 tier cards are much more expensive than that I'm not sure what I'd do, it'd depend on what else is available in terms of gaming hardware.
 
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I was already uncomfortable with the GPU prices way before the inflation and the ram crisis. I would never buy a GPU that costs more than a current gen PlayStation. The prices between various key components (like the CPU or RAM) should be closer to each other, can't accept that a single part costs 3x as much (or way more) and makes the whole rig very expensive.
 
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About 1100, which is exactly what I paid for my 5080.

Too bad it arrived DOA, and the case somehow came with none of the included accessories either. Still waiting on replacements to finish the build
 
I got my 5090 as part of a whole new PC, but i wouldn't have paid 2000 quid for 1 on its own, the most i have paid for a GPU was 700 pounds, and it was the only GPU i had that went wrong, so £1000 tops for a graphic card for me.
 
About $2000 but this depends on what I'm getting for the money in comparison to what I have and what other options are there or are expected to appear.
 
The absolute maximum I'd pay for a GPU is £1k.

But honestly I mainly play old games these days, and if it's modern I don't mind lowering settings. I'm no longer the graphics whore I was in my younger years.
 
anything over £1000 is just plain stupid imo, that should be the 5090 price

5080 maybe £750 max

just daylight robbery at this point, considering all just make fake frames anyway
 
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850EUR.

Unfortunately I'm a sucker for high graphics and path tracing so I spent about 800 on my last GPU to play games with PT. Unlike the usual good graphics you grow accustomed to and stop noticing at some point, I was still awestruck by the end of Indiana Jones (so after some 40 hours). Same goes for Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk.

Would save me a lot of money if I wouldn't care.
 
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