There is no denying that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 is an amazing graphics card. It has an unmatched level of performance out of the box that can go even further with DLSS 3, as long as you can fit it in your box and accept its attractive price point. This latest moment plays a big part in undermining the importance of Team Green’s flagship, and here’s hoping the announcement of the company’s much bigger pixel pushers is right around the corner.
To be perfectly clear, the RTX 4090 will remain the best graphics card money can buy for the foreseeable future, and its closest competitor (the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX) will be looking to take on the RTX 4080 instead. will buy let alone offer a GPU this expensive compared to the upcoming RTX 4070, 4060 and 4050.
Il vous suffit de jeter un coup d’œil à n’importe quel exam du matériel Steam pour voir à quel point les offers grand public de Nvidia sont popular et, inversement, à quel point les cartes graphiques de classe 90 et 80 sont rare parmi the users. The GeForce GTX 1060, despite being six and a half years old, is still the most popular pixel processor on Valve’s platform, with the RTX 2060, GTX 1650, RTX 3060, and 1050 Ti making up the other top five GPUs.
There are several reasons why 60 and 50 class graphics cards dominate Steam users, the most obvious being price. The most expensive GPU in this bunch was $329 when it launched, and now you can buy it even cheaper. Looking at this data, it’s pretty clear that while PC gamers are looking to maximize frame rates, most of them simply don’t want to splurge on higher frame rates.
Obviously, permission also plays an important role in these purchasing decisions. The GeForce RTX 4090 and to some extent the RTX 4080 are powerful enough for 4K gaming, but the user base isn’t there yet. The dominance of 1080p displays is undeniable: at the time of writing, the market share among Steam users is 65.08%, compared to 13.42% at 1440p and 2.33% at 2160p.
Since it makes sense to upgrade your graphics card before upping your gaming monitor’s resolution, it’s likely to be a while before 1080p’s reign comes to an end. Even 1440p hasn’t had its day in the sun like its HD counterpart. At first glance, this may be daunting for people expecting this generation of 50/60-class GPUs, but it’s likely they’ll turn out to be powerful 4K producers, armed with Nvidia DLSS 3.
Current rumors suggest that the performance of the RTX 4060 will be the same as the RTX 3070, which would be great if it launched at a competitive price. However, Nvidia’s next-gen (or possibly current-gen) enhancement technology increases its value over its predecessors while diminishing the appeal of more expensive GeForce graphics cards.
As hardware enthusiasts, it’s sometimes easy to get caught up in the notoriously amazing things that happen in cutting-edge technology. This, at least in my case, has skewed the way I view my own builds and created a completely misplaced fear of missing out on the latest and greatest tech like the GeForce RTX 4090.
Ultimately, the most powerful GPUs don’t define all generations of graphics cards, whether from Nvidia or AMD. In fact, the value-focused deals of 50 and 60 are proving the most influential among PC developers and gamers, making them the most important graphics cards.
Source : PC Gamesn
