I've been looking at upgrading my PC from a secondhand 2060 I got in early 2021 for cheap. Right now, Newegg has a sale event this week where all sorts of things can be purchased at 10% off, including new GPUs. I already kinda regret not looking into this when they were being bundled with Wukong.
Right now, they're still being bundled with Star Wars: Outlaws. Been over a month now. I have no idea when they'll next bundle their cards with a game I actually want. And Outlaws is a game I really don't want.
What would you guys think in this situation?
I don't even know if there are any games out worthy of expensive gpus anymore, all the 'aaaa' games from major studios are boring goy slops, 8k doesn't matter if you don't even want to play them
I need a new GPU but I do some hobby 3d modeling and animations and such so wouldn't mind the quicker render and simulation times. But yeah it's been a long time since I've upgraded for vidya specifically
Honestly, I've done some AI-rendered art too, and I've started to hit a limit in output quality, while most of the "creator community" has moved on to higher spec models that my current GPU can't reasonably handle.
I do 3d modeling and animation. With a 4080 it still takes a while. rendering in cycles takes me ages lol. 1080p at 30fps and about 1024 sample rate. For a 1minute 30sec animation, it takes like 5 days or 100hrs to render. Im probably gonna get a 5090 or a cheap 4090 or if 5080 gets more than 16gb of vram. The 4080, ill relegate to a 2nd computer to be a secondary renderer. Have 1 copy of the same project on the 2 computers ans have it render different camera or part of the scene.
DirectX12 requirements are limiting me far more than GPU requirements are and my hardware's several years out of date at this point.