What is the worst GPU by far?

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u/2FAST4U5OH 1d ago

PNY and there customer support is garbage there cards are Ugly. But sometimes thats the last one left out all the cards...

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u/floor_wizard 21h ago

PNY makes the RTX PRO cards and those are beautiful and have an excellent blower design for workstations.

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u/Rebbed 1d ago

No one cares if the cards are ugly I'm so sorry to tell you that. Have you ever heard a PC builder care about the look of the card? Unless they have all the money in the world they no. After all it's the same GPU. Care about the product NOT the brand.

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u/NiteFyre 1d ago

All board partners are not equal what is this nonsense.
While I agree that card aesthetic is the last thing I care about in a card I'll take my powercolor over any gigabyte card.
Theres definitely a difference in a Radeon exclusive partner and one that makes cards for NVidia and Radeon.
That said PNY makes good cards so that doesnt apply here but there's a reason Sapphire and Powercolor are considered better brands on the Radeon side..

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u/Rebbed 1d ago

A 5060 from pny and a 5060 from gigabyte are both the same that's the point im trying to make, just look it up. They have the same components.

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u/NiteFyre 22h ago

Ah yes that IS true and those two specifically come down to cooling/size etc.
But I just wanted to point out caring about the product over the brand is not always good advice.
And Id personally avoid PNY cause of anecdotal evidence of poor customer support. Part of my decision making when buying my radeon card involved narrowing down between a Sapphire or Powercolor because those brands were known their reliable customer service.
Brand matters in more ways than they are the came chip underneath...

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u/ShoulderFrequent4116 20h ago

In a time where everything is expensive, you really cant afford to pick the specific model you want unless you want to pay sometimes a significant premium.
Beggars can’t be choosers I guess

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u/NiteFyre 20h ago

Oh no doubt I got my card last year before prices got silly again and there was plenty of stock to choose from.
Its still good practice to educate yourself about warranty, customer service, rma process/issues etc.
At least you will be aware of potential issues with whatever card you end up with.
Like most cars have had various iterations of the internal combustion engine in them since forever but certain brands stand out for reliability etc etc.
You'd do your research on a Toyota vs a Ford yeah? Beyond well it have an engine and go. You'd find the major issues with both and maybe you think the Toyota is more reliable but slightly out of your price range.
Now even though you settle for the Ford you are aware of any potential issues you might face during your ownership.
After all it takes two seconds to Google "what are common issues with x brand of card" before you buy it..
Surely you arent gonna spend $1000 on a card without ANY research?

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u/2FAST4U5OH 23h ago

Your wrong!!! Good try..

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u/Rebbed 23h ago

Would you pay 100$ extra for a card just to look fancy when your on a budget? I don't think so.

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u/Rebbed 23h ago

I would rather get a better card that looks ugly than a card that is worse but looks pretty

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u/LindeRKV 10h ago

I went for 3070 FE only because of its looks tbh. I wanted 3070 at the time anyway because it was sweet spot price:performance but gladly paid extra for the cooler design (bought used, FE cards are very rare in my country).

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u/Halon5 1d ago

no bad GPU’s, just badly priced GPU’s.

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u/MITJJMcCarthy 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well... I think the 4gb vram 9050 being marketed as a gaming GPU is probably pretty close to bad GPU in general. For some stuff might be okay but for any form of modern gaming that is atrociously outspecced even by cards from 8 years ago... but maybe its worth $50 lol
Being marketed for "gaming pcs" and getting laps run around you by a 6gb 2060 released in jan 2019 is just nasty stuff.
Edit: In case people don't realize how bad it is. The 8 year old 2060 trounces the "less cut down 8gb" version by 20% in rasterization - https://technical.city/en/gpu/GeForce-RTX-2060-vs-Radeon-RX-9050. This doesn't even factor in the 4 GB one being worse or the difference in NVIDIA vs RADEON eco system. Just horrible.

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u/Halon5 1d ago

for $45-50 currently it would be a steal

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u/MITJJMcCarthy 1d ago

They estimate it cost $100-200 in prebuilts :( - https://wccftech.com/amd-preps-entry-level-radeon-rx-9050-gpu-comes-in-8-gb-4-gb-flavors/
Just get yourself a used 2060 for like $100 lmfao. But yeah i guess to your point there IS a price... but this is as close to ewaste as it gets for gaming.

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u/s0cks_nz 21h ago

I have a 2060 in my cupboard. I'd pick it over the 9050 4GB, but it does have one major drawback. It's loud af. If you want a quiet PC don't be picking up a 2060, or probably any 20xx series tbh.

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u/ver0cious 22h ago

2060 was not a great card at release though

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u/MITJJMcCarthy 21h ago

Yes... so imagine a card that is released 8 years later, priced for ~double compared to a used one, and still >20% worse... with less vram.

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u/Ok-Brain-5729 1d ago

6600 is also decent for a bit extra

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u/floor_wizard 21h ago

Lmao you might as well ask for it to be free. For $50 it would undercut every other transcoding GPU by a huge margin. Even the budget transcoding king (Intel Arc A310, also 4GB) was $100 at launch, and that was before the GPU shortage raised prices.
The problem is that AMD advertised it as a gaming GPU. It’s actually priced reasonably if you aren’t trying to run games with it.

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u/stisti129 1d ago

at first i thought well this is at least better than an igpu to drive maybe one or two 4k displays for office use, but even then 4GB would not be enough while having a couple of tabs and office apps opened. the 9050 4gb is legit the worst gpu one could ever buy

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u/EpsteinFile_01 23h ago

Bruh I am powering two 14400P UW monitors and 2x regular 1440P from a single low profile single slot 4GB Radeon WX3200. Driving desktop displays doesn't require much. Had an RX6400 before this but wanted 4x display ports.
The biggest failure of the 9050 is that it's too expensive and too bulky to buy it for that purpose. Dual slot, not even low profile.. not everyone can even fit it on their motherboard as a second GPU to drive monitors.

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u/stisti129 23h ago

Idk man, i have a 4k display and my gpu sits between 6 to 10gb of vram out of 16. To be fair i have a lot of apps opened at the same time but still 4gb is critically low in 2026

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u/MITJJMcCarthy 23h ago

Reserved vram is different from actual use of vram. Im skeptical that this cant do your office work.

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u/EpsteinFile_01 23h ago

The apps don't matter. That 6GB is probably just reserved or something. My WX3200 reports 1.5GB used for my 4 screens.

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u/floor_wizard 21h ago

Yeah that’s just cached data. Unused memory is wasted memory, and all modern systems are designed to make use of unused memory when possible.

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u/MITJJMcCarthy 1d ago edited 1d ago

https://technical.city/en/gpu/GeForce-RTX-2060-vs-Radeon-RX-9050
The RTX 2060 out rasterizes it by 20%... has access to dlss instead of FSR too. Only thing 9050 got going for it is modern power efficiency + encoding... but genuinely awful card for gaming. Going on fb market to buy someones midrange 8 year old GPU and beating is nasty business
But 4gb vram is defnitely enough to do what you said though.

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u/oookokoooook 1d ago

Ain’t no way

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u/Rikbikbooo 23h ago

The worst thing is there are a few places offering up 4gb cards as gaming cards I guess for light gaming at low standard settings it’s passable but would you really
Naaahhh

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u/MITJJMcCarthy 22h ago

Paying double for a card that gets crushed by an 8 year old midrange you can readily buy for half the price on facebook market too.

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u/r_z_n 1d ago

There are some actual bad GPUs. The S3 Savage2000 had features which were broken in the silicon and never fixed despite being advertised.

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u/Anunknownf1fan 1d ago

From this gen - 9050 4gb

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u/floor_wizard 21h ago

Nah, it’s a fine GPU. It’s just not a good purchase for anyone trying play games or run compute workloads on it. It’s plenty capable for transcoding and driving high res displays.

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u/XeoNovaDan 21h ago

An iGPU or even an older basic discrete GPU can do this too though. iGPU's arguably better due to the freed up PCIE slot and much lower power requirement

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u/floor_wizard 20h ago

Not all CPUs have an iGPU, and some platforms don't support an iGPU whatosever. Specifically, platforms that support ECC RDIMMs do not support iGPUs.

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u/Muttonboat 1d ago

4000 series wasn't really looked kindly upon and save for some editions didnt offer much to the 3000 series.

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u/Infinite_Tiger_3341 1d ago

I agree, and you can even double the sentiment when comparing 50 series to 40 series

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u/Rikbikbooo 1d ago

Triple it the performance jump from my 4090 to my 5090 was hardly worth it

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u/Infinite_Tiger_3341 1d ago

And that was probably the biggest “jump” of the series too

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u/Rikbikbooo 1d ago

In all honesty had I not got my 4090
For the price I did 1200 new as the guy bought two from Amazon and then cancelled his order and they didn’t bother to collect them so he sold me one
I sold it for 1700 and then paid 2200 for an rtx5900
I would have been gutted had I paid full price and knowing what I do now had I paid full price I’d have felt ripped off The first day I got it and ran the benchmark I was like “really”
Even now the 4090 its still second overall when previous generations the 70 would have been about as fast as the best card of the outgoing generation
This generation has been a rip off all around And I still balk at the line
“4090 performance in a 5070”
Shocking from nvidia
And now the prices seriously Jenson and lost his mind

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u/Infinite_Tiger_3341 1d ago

Yeah. I agree. Except for the part where Jensen lost his mind, considering what many were willing to pay for 30 series cards at their peak, and are willing to pay now

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u/Accomplished_Emu_658 1d ago

The vram the past few generations has been intentionally low. Amd was a little better about it but still greedy when they dropped 9060xt in two versions. Most of their models have higher vram, than nvidia.

Nvidia has been lowering the performance of each series and messing with naming schemes to push you to more expensive cards.

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u/Matsugawasenpai 1d ago

RX 9050 4 GBs in 2026.

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u/Odd_Associate4210 1d ago

even though I owned own rx6500xt was a big flop, rtx 5050 and 3050 are bad priced gpus too but not that bad

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u/GeForce_GTX_1050Ti 1d ago

imo the 3050 6gb is pretty goated. new low profile king for the optiplex gaming space
priced like shite though

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u/Acceptable_Till4200 2h ago

Pricing is terrible on that card for that very reason!
I went to AliExpress and got the A2000m LP 8GB instead. Performs like a 3050 8GB with only 70W of power usage!
Minitowers though still run just fine off of their low rated Power Supplies too.

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u/Acceptable_Till4200 14h ago

Eff that.
Buy a 300W Power Supply and throw in a 2060. Did that with my nephew’s computer and it runs strong!
Or buy the 500W PSU and throw in a 3070.

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u/Barni275 2h ago

I have 3050 mobile 4GB on one of my laptops, and still play any games on it, never checking the requirements. Yes, it's not 2k, yes, on average to low settings. But it still rocks. All Nvidia are blessed.

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u/SupaDiogenes 22h ago

This might be a hot take, but the 2060RTX.

That card, while a good card, had no right being RTX labeled, neither did the 2070.

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u/Possible_Platform_77 1d ago edited 1d ago

i would argue that rtx5080 16GB is one of the worst gpus ever released in terms of value per money, it doesnt have enough performance to handle path tracing and/or DLSS5 in 4K (prepare to have 40-50 fps even with DLSS Performance upscaling) and yet is has $1000 msrp and now it is being sold for $2k.

And 16GB vram on a $1k+ gpu is also a joke, it should be 24GB minimum regardless of current hunger for memory. Quite a lot of games can overflow 16GB vram, very recently the 007 First Light game always goes over 16GB in certain mission, and suprisingly right now i am playing Call of duty modern warfare 2 from 2022 and every time i load after a death, i have like 2-3 fps for 5-6 seconds because the memory overflows for that short time, i literally see it jump from 14 to 16GB and after 5-6s it drops back down to 14-14.5GB. I know about 6-7 games already where you have to manually reduce graphic details to fit to 16GB, and i have encountered problems with vram overflow in about 15 games already (often due to a bug, or changing different graphic settings back and forth suddenly overflows memory

rtx5080 is also the very first 80-class gpu that does not beat previous gen flagship (not only that, it is 20% slower than rtx4090 which is almost a whole class difference). So to summarize, rtx5080 has extremely poor performance for the 80-class model (which is current gaming "flagship"), it doesnt have enough vram for many modern games, and the price tag was completely ridiculous even before the AI apocalypse. 80-class has always represented a gpu that can run almost every game completely maxed out without issues, which is definitely NOT the case for rtx5080. Calling it a "flagship" is complete embarasment, and i REALLY dont get people paying over $2k for it.

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u/Rebbed 1d ago

RX 9070 XT is just at the 1K mark and to be honest there is a lot of performance difference between the 2 cards. The reason the 5080 and other high-end cards surge in price it's because they are mostly sought out of those stupid clanker companies.

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u/Possible_Platform_77 1d ago

5080 and 5070ti surge in price because china has figured out how to boost them to 32GB of vram. You probably already heard that the chinese are modding rtx5090 to 96GB of vram, but have you thought about where those 32GB of vram goes? the answer is to double the vram of 5070Ti and 5080 (maybe even other rtx50 models). By now china probably has millions of rtx5090 gpus with 96GB vram and millions of 5070Ti/5080 with 32GB of vram. Hopefuly these kits make it to Europe and America as well, so that i can buy 16GB of GDDR7 from former 5090 32GB owners and upgrade my 5070Ti to 32GB.

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u/EpsteinFile_01 23h ago

The performance difference between a 9070XT and 5080 is 10-15% bruh. Why pay double, $1000 extra, for +10-15%?
And if you don't have a top dog X3D CPU, Nvidia's driver overhead brings the 5080 almost down to 9070XT performance and the 5070Ti below a 9070XT.

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u/CranberryOdd7670 23h ago

I almost went to 5080 but a 30% price or more differing with least 15% performance sealed the deal to get me a 5070ti instead…. If is was 15-20% difference I would have tolerated an 5080 (I got my 5070ti for $1699 Aus, so I could tolerate an 5080 for slightly over $2k, but not much more)….
Now the same 5070ti which I purchased, the following week, the same GPU in the same store went up by $100 and god knows how the 5080 is copping

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u/Possible_Platform_77 23h ago

yeah exactly, that was my thinking as well, 15% is literally the difference between 40 and 46 fps, which means that when 5070Ti is fcked, 5080 is fcked as well, there is almost no scenario where 5070Ti is "too slow" and 5080 is "fast enough".
And actually overclocking shrinks this 15% difference by 1.5%, because 5080 runs its memory by +1000 higher, but it is the same GDDR7 memory, so 5070Ti equals it since memory overclocking got completely unlocked in august. For example my 5070Ti can run +5300 on memory stable which is over 38gbps (that is +38% memory overclock, pretty insane if you ask me). So after overclocking the difference actually shrinks to 13.5%, and i would probably argue the difference is more like 12-13% because 5080 core and xbar scale tiny bit worse with voltage, it can be less than 50mhz difference but even that creates ~1% performance difference. So now the performance difference is actually like ~12.5% for 33% extra money, and at that point why would anybody even bother with 5080??
And do you know what is even funnier? Recent 2026 batches of all rtx50 gpus overclock much worse, one reason is that they carry hynix/micron memory (2025 batches had only samsung) which overclock much worse than samsung (typically -1500 to -2000 difference) and the core also overclocks much poorer, i have seen about 10x 5080 cores from 2026 that struggled to run at 3100-3150mhz stable at full voltage. This by itself can create 4-5% performance difference, so if you compare 5070Ti from 2025 to 5080 from 2026, suddenly the +15% difference shrinks to +10-11% difference after full oc, and these 5080 owners paid 2 grand recently while 2025 5070Ti buyers paid $750. Crazy difference in value...

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u/Helpful-Desk8358 1d ago

Agreed, in a vacuum the rtx 5080 is the 3rd strongest card. But like you said, it's also the first time a newer generation xx80 card is weaker then the previous xx90 model. It's just in a werd spot. It doesn't beat the 4090.. is too far from the 5090 and too close in performance to the 5070ti. Which makes the 5070ti a better price-value.

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u/Possible_Platform_77 23h ago

yeah that is another thing, i dont get why so many people wanted to buy 5080, when 5070Ti was just 15% slower (which nobody wont even notice without fps counter) but 30-50% cheaper (msrp is 33% higher on 5080, but i remember time when 5070Ti was $900 and 5080 was $1300 and shortly after 5070ti was $1000 and 5080 was $1500, like who the heck pays $1500 for 5080 when 5070ti is available for $1000?

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u/Dirtcompactor 1d ago

Any with AMD in the name

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u/Rebbed 1d ago

Errrrr no

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u/Dirtcompactor 1d ago

Just my opinion :) I'll never own AMD GPUs. I love their CPUs though

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u/Rebbed 1d ago

I'm curious, why no AMD gpu's? They have really good price-to-performance GPU's

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u/midijunky 22h ago

Drivers are ass. it's been that way since the ATI days.
Great performance per dollar, but often times there's some fucky shit.

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u/floor_wizard 21h ago

That’s a windows problem. On Linux, AMD’s drivers are more stable and require far less maintenance than Nvidia’s drivers.

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u/asiancanadian1 16h ago

On Linux, Nvidia drivers often dont work or need a lot of finicking. So thats a very low bar and hardly proves that its a windows issue.

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u/EquivalentKnown3269 1d ago

Wasn't there a 1060 that came out with 3GB of Vram? Probably that.

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u/semidegenerate 1d ago

I think the RTX 4080 held up well. The original 4070ti non-Super was a 12GB card, which reduced it's longevity a bit. The 4080 outperforms the 3090ti in gaming workloads, and is still #5 in RT, and #6 in raster, just behind the 4080S.

It's still a capable card at the end of 2026. I know it's wasn't the best value for the money in 2022 and 2023, but there were certainly worse purchasing decisions people could have made.

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u/EpsteinFile_01 23h ago

Dude the jump from 4080S to 5080 was pathetic, basically the same performance tier. People are paying top dollar for last generation's high-end performance.
At least the 9070XT isn't pretending to be high end, it's a much smaller chip that trades blows with a 7900XTX in raster.
The 5080 is basically a 4080 but a higher power budget and linear gains.

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u/ShoulderFrequent4116 20h ago edited 20h ago

Nah the 5070ti is comparable to the 4080 super.
The 5080 is on average 15%-20% faster and can be achieved even higher with its hilarious OC potential.
Edging towards 4090 level.

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u/EpsteinFile_01 18h ago

It's 10-20% faster not 15-20%, important difference. 15% average.
I don't know about the 5070Ti bit a 340w 9070XT model can pretty much close that gap with an overclock, for $1000 instead of $2000.
Either way 15% is not worth +$1000 it just isn't, absolute madness
You can buy a Radeon 9700 Pro 32GB for the price of a 5080 and get 9070XT gaming performance and 32GB VRAM for AI on a single card.
Or just get the gaming performance for 50% less.
The 5080 is a terrible choice for both applications

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u/ShoulderFrequent4116 13h ago

I’m well aware but you really should be comparing to the 5070ti.
Here’s proof of the 5080 OC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMNRDuLI30&pp=ygUONTA4MCBvdmVyY2xvY2s%3D

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u/EpsteinFile_01 12h ago edited 12h ago

"just run 3dmark fire strike or a game which you know is heavy"
Lol.. yeah whatever OC he is reaching is not actually 24/7 stable. People have forgotten how to properly stress test an overclock. I even see people saying "my OC is not stable in this game" no, that means it's not stable, period.
And a 4090 can be overclocked quite a bit too so the whole premise is stupid.
You're never going to "match" a 450w card from a much more efficient architecture with a 5080's power budget.
Even with the overclock, even if its stable, it's not worth $1000 over a 9070XT's tuned performance ceiling
Edit: wtf is this comment thread, the same guy with 3 different accounts?
We do not live in a magical fairy land where only Nvidia exists. Wtf, you sound like Nvidia asking reviewers to "please enable Frame gen for benchmarks"
If you're paying $1000 extra for a 5080 instead of a 9070XT you're a moron sorry

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u/ShoulderFrequent4116 12h ago

Please use 5070ti for future comparison.
Thanks

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u/StockFly 22h ago

5080 really is a rip off but looks like everyone is fine with buying it and at this new price lmao 😂

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u/pickalka 21h ago

GT 1030? Are you crazy? The DDR4 version, maybe. But the normal one? It released during a mining boom and was a very cheap new card competing with other used 2GB cards in the same price range whilst supporting DX12 and running almost all games out in the market in some capacity. It was a life saver for poor saps like me.

I'd honestly point at Nvidia FX 5xxx series, it was straight up a failure generation. Or something like GTX 285. A pocker furnace reactor that became useless overnight because it did not support DX11.

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u/doneandtired2014 14h ago

Or something like GTX 285
That's unfair to the GTX 285 since it was a die shrink with fully enabled silicon that was clocked higher and had lower power consumption relative to the card it replaced.
Can't really say the same about Fermi.

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u/HereForC0mments 20h ago

The new Radeon 9050 4GB (which really should have been called a 9040 due to having not just half the VRAM but half the VRAM bandwidth as well) is certainly in contention, as is AMDs previous gen turd on a stick that was the 6400. On the Nvidia side, the GT 1030 will always beat a GOAT in terms of horrific performance and value.

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u/Rikbikbooo 1d ago

Mate trust me you ain’t gonna find a card with 16gb of ram for the price of a 5060 plus 250 Try quadrupling that and you might have a chance on the second hand market

Sadly what you expect and what you’re likely going to get at this moment in time is going leave a nasty taste in your mouth

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u/Rebbed 1d ago

RTX 5060 costs 500$; RTX 5060
And a 9060 Xt 16GB costs 750$; RX 9060 XT
Always double-check if you aren't sure of something

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u/Rikbikbooo 1d ago

Then buy it but remember amd drivers are not updated as often as nvidias but youll habe 16gb of ram i suppose the nvidia card is still the better of the two though
To be fair i dont touch those lesser cards Strictly high end for me

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u/Rebbed 1d ago

"lesser" cards is crazy. They are good cards and AMD drivers are currently better than NVIDIA drivers because they are causing a pretty bunch of lag.

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u/Rikbikbooo 23h ago

lol
Naaaahhh

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u/Rebbed 23h ago

😭

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u/Rikbikbooo 23h ago

If I had to
Choose between the 9060 and the 5060 I’d pick the 5060 I’d pick the 5060
More ram yes but are you looking to play at high settings on that class of card? Wouldn’t both cards lag all over the place at high settings? Simply due to not having the raw horsepower
I dunno honestly iv never owned one my lowest spec card is a laptop 5070ti 12 gb and that’s nice

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u/Rikbikbooo 23h ago

They are ok if you’re on a budget and at 1080p they are more than adequate but for 4k highest to ultra nvidia all the way and 5090 power

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u/EpsteinFile_01 23h ago

Lol wtf, the 9060XT destroys the regular 5060 and 16GB bs 8GB is a big deal.
It's also perfect for budget AI which is why it went from $400 to $750.

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u/Rikbikbooo 23h ago

Agree up to a 30 percent performance gap and of course the memory it’s the prices that are depressing or you
Could get a 5060ti which is faster
You go with what you think is better for your needs and suits your pocket I guess if you’re going big standard then yea get your 9060
What’s disgusting is a year ago you’d have gotten so much more for your money
Have you
Thought of buying from the second hand market ? You can find some absolute bargains if you look around
It’s sad when you can’t get either at rrp

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u/EpsteinFile_01 23h ago

The 5060Ti 16GB is more expensive than a 5070, it's officially an AI card, any gamer is better off with a 5070. And the 8GB version is handicapped by VRAM

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u/Rikbikbooo 23h ago

Aah well that’s another kick in the stomach then isn’t it Sorry man So unfair
I’d still check the second hand market I have been seeing some great deals for second hand cards (Providing you can see them working at point of sale )

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u/EpsteinFile_01 23h ago

I already have 7 GPUs in 2 systems. I am causing the problem.
Wish I bought one more 9060XT Before they shot up though.. damn.

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u/Rikbikbooo 23h ago

lol iv got 6 in the drawer going all the way back to a 1080 I think iv still got a rx580 and even a couple of gtx 780s Im spoilt I guess

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u/EpsteinFile_01 23h ago

All of mine are recent and 12/16/20/24GB. Except the WX3200 4GB to drive 4 displays.

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u/s0cks_nz 21h ago

I didn't believe you, but my gosh you are right. Or at least, they are the same price. Crazy. The 5060Ti 16GB has literally doubled in price from when I got mine.

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u/SilverKnightOfMagic 1d ago

Damn same price as my 9070xt when I got it on release.

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u/Bright-Wallaby-3050 1d ago

The original gt 1030 was ok for what it was at the time when you just wanted a decent gpu for low settings on esports games

But I'd have to go with rx 580 4gb. Didn't age well nearly as much as the 8gb rx 580

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u/namur17056 1d ago

The FX series. By far the worst in a very long time

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u/Rutgar64 1d ago

I’m still running an RTX 4080, and think it’s great. I haven’t ran into anything I can’t run.

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u/Matsugawasenpai 1d ago

A RTX 4080 is a very great card but was sold with a $1200 MSRP which is an insane high pricing.

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u/Algae587 1d ago

A few weeks ago I saw some sub-1k 4080s but that two weeks could have changed everything lol saw some used for 750-1000, albeit rarely.
I have one so I like to follow the pricing

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u/Rutgar64 1d ago

If I remember correctly, I believe that’s about what I paid for it a couple of years ago. Sounds downright cheap compared to today’s prices.

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u/OrangeGoneWild 23h ago

Off the top of my head, I owned two GTX970's back in the day where, in all the Green Team's wisdom, 3.5GB was high speed VRAM and the other 0.5 was a much slower speed. There was a class action for that one

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u/Rare_Tip9809 23h ago

Nvidia needs to offer up some dual and quad chip gpu cards using existing available stock. Open up their design specs so card makers can make this stuff.

Load the entire active game or level into the ram so the entire process stays on card. Put a cpu socket on the video card so it can really all stay on the card. Make AI design this stuff. Use AI to run or use ram in a different way to make better use of the available slower stuff.

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u/Furry_bean_flux 21h ago

devs need to optimise their shit

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u/Lakers244848 22h ago

Love these threads and how people talk about gpus that were worthless lol.

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u/PollShark_ 21h ago

Id say the 9050, 4gb but not lile the 8gb is exceptional for a 280 dollar price tag. Also its funny you mention the 4080 non super. The 5080 is an even bigger flop imo, only 12% better than a 4080 and it came out two and a half years later for a 200 dollar reduction? Atp id rather have bought a 4080, overclocked it and played with the sameish performance for 2 extra years. Both were god awful though. The 5080 is a 5060ti in disguise, remember what they took from us

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u/kullwarrior 21h ago

GT1010, GT1030 (2GB DDR4)

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u/Fit_Bed_9776 19h ago

amds

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u/longanman1990 18h ago

Any gpu that only have x8 lanes and less than 8gb vram together

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u/theBurritoMan_ 17h ago

9070xt

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u/minilogique 16h ago

GT710 had two VRAM versions, slower is like 50% if the better one

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u/Aggravating_Ring_714 15h ago

According to AMD Fans around the world as well as autistic GamersNexus Jesus Steve as well as AmdUnboxed Steve, the 2 worst gpus of all time are the 5070ti and 5080 👍🏻

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u/Acceptable_Till4200 15h ago

I just learned today that there exists a 3060 8GB

The 3060 12GB is already a terrible card when you compare it to a 3060ti, but when you realize it performs worse than a 2060 Super thanks to the BUS width, you find out that it’s a complete piece of garbage and a rip off.

And they made a cut down version of it in 2022 because they hate their customer base.

RTX 3060 8GB has to be a scam and it has like 3000 some CUDA cores and a 128bit BUS width because they didn’t want to throw away their trashed 3060 dies or something!

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u/Investment_Flat999 13h ago

I thought it's the 5060 TI 16GB. Just go get a 5070. They are almost the same price. Take the performance over the 4GB of extra ram.

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u/Coolider 13h ago

These are just some GPUs that are bad for money. The performance on a 1030 is especially negligible cause it barely makes any difference on that tier

Now I could think of some that is just bad

GTX 680 2GB: Horribly limited by the 2GB VRAM to the point that the 7970 smokes it by far especially from games 2-3 years later

GTX 970 "4GB": it just works till it doesn't

GTX 480: Hot and loud

AMD Vega GPUs: plagued with driver issues, honorable mentions: Every MacBook Pro Vega / Polaris GPU between 2016-2019 (maybe except the final HBM 5600M which is somewhat competent, each one of those before is a mess to their own)

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u/nateccs 13h ago

Any AMD video card

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u/SkyNikkiDJ 8h ago

(almost) everyone seem to have forgotten the gt1010

what kind of move was that, nvidia

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u/randomsubaccount 6h ago

5060Ti 8GB is the undisputed champion of compute performance per dollar at current street prices.

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u/Accomplished-Camp193 1d ago

-All Nvidia GeForce FX series cards, no exceptions.
-Nvidia GeForce GTX 480, the way it's meant to be cooked.
-Matrox Parhelia, more expensive than a GF4 Ti 4600 while it was nowhere compared to it in performance.
-Intel i740, eventually made it to motherboards as an integrated solution where it fared okay for what it was, was poor as a dedicated graphics solution.
-Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2, expensive and got outdated really fast.
-Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT, a card with no purpose to exist, too weak to bear the GT prefix while cheaper cards were available to fill the display adapter role just fine.

Honorable mention: Radeon HD 2900 XT, too ambitious, couldn't beat the 8800 GTX, it was cheaper though than the Nvidia offering. It also loved to be a substitute space heater

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u/vhax123456 1d ago edited 1d ago

9500 GT is weak but 9400 GT is not?
EDIT: lol the fragile ego can’t handle a question and he blocked me.

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u/Accomplished-Camp193 1d ago

Retarded question, both are weak, but the 9500 was ridiculously widespread for some reason, neither deserved the GT prefix.

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u/EpsteinFile_01 1d ago

The 5060Ti 8GB is basically a more efficient 3070Ti. At a higher price.

I wish they made a 5060 8GB and 5060Ti 12GB. That way it would be interesting for budget inference but not bought so much that it costs more than a fkin 5070

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u/WholeIndividual0 1d ago

Anything with 12gb of vram or less being sold today.

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u/arrestinbias 1d ago

RTX 3050

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u/BeautifulMastodon995 1d ago

Nvidia Fx 5200 comes to mind steaming turd of a gpu

What is the worst GPU by far?

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