If you care about FPS/$ you do not buy the latest and greatest. So why would you try to make it look bad with that number? Absurd. It is like comparing a heavy E-Bike for 2 kids add on to a carbon super light bike based on weight.
If you care about real FPS/$, you buy AMD, or possibly now Intel, lol.
Nvidia ruined gaming affordability both by aiming to make high quality graphics on PC a boutique, expensive luxury, and by upending the entire history of how lighting works in games by collaborating with Epic and other game companies to make their cards the only things that can even kind of run their insanely unoptimized real time raytracing.
UE 5 w/ nanite and lumen is an unoptimized mess, only moderately performant at high resolutions on Nvidia cards that cost as much as an entire PC.
I am entirely convinced Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch is almost entirely due to Projekt Red being strapped for cash, and making a faustian funding bargain with Nvidia about a year before release, the main condition of which being ‘rewrite your entire game engine you’ve been working on for 10 years to work with this insane lighting technology, and don’t let this change your release window at all.’
This is part of the general strategy that basically all companies selling a product to a wide range of American consumers have done in the last 5 years:
Fuck the poors, only rich people even have disposable income now, turn everything into a luxury aimed at the rich.
Its not working out so well for the car industry, but it is for housing.
Meanwhile 5090’s are now going for +$3k
https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-and-asus-hike-geforce-rtx-50-series-prices-in-official-stores-now-up-to-3409-for-rtx-5090
May slightly impact your FPS per $ calculation, just a smidge.
If you care about FPS/$ you do not buy the latest and greatest. So why would you try to make it look bad with that number? Absurd. It is like comparing a heavy E-Bike for 2 kids add on to a carbon super light bike based on weight.
If you care about real FPS/$, you buy AMD, or possibly now Intel, lol.
Nvidia ruined gaming affordability both by aiming to make high quality graphics on PC a boutique, expensive luxury, and by upending the entire history of how lighting works in games by collaborating with Epic and other game companies to make their cards the only things that can even kind of run their insanely unoptimized real time raytracing.
UE 5 w/ nanite and lumen is an unoptimized mess, only moderately performant at high resolutions on Nvidia cards that cost as much as an entire PC.
I am entirely convinced Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch is almost entirely due to Projekt Red being strapped for cash, and making a faustian funding bargain with Nvidia about a year before release, the main condition of which being ‘rewrite your entire game engine you’ve been working on for 10 years to work with this insane lighting technology, and don’t let this change your release window at all.’
This is part of the general strategy that basically all companies selling a product to a wide range of American consumers have done in the last 5 years:
Fuck the poors, only rich people even have disposable income now, turn everything into a luxury aimed at the rich.
Its not working out so well for the car industry, but it is for housing.