Nvidia doing degrowth. We did it, folks.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
76 points (100.0% liked)
technology
24155 readers
92 users here now
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020
- Ways to run Microsoft/Adobe and more on Linux
- The Ultimate FOSS Guide For Android
- Great libre software on Windows
- Hey you, the lib still using Chrome. Read this post!
Rules:
- 1. Obviously abide by the sitewide code of conduct. Bigotry will be met with an immediate ban
- 2. This community is about technology. Offtopic is permitted as long as it is kept in the comment sections
- 3. Although this is not /c/libre, FOSS related posting is tolerated, and even welcome in the case of effort posts
- 4. We believe technology should be liberating. As such, avoid promoting proprietary and/or bourgeois technology
- 5. Explanatory posts to correct the potential mistakes a comrade made in a post of their own are allowed, as long as they remain respectful
- 6. No crypto (Bitcoin, NFT, etc.) speculation, unless it is purely informative and not too cringe
- 7. Absolutely no tech bro shit. If you have a good opinion of Silicon Valley billionaires please manifest yourself so we can ban you.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
So they bring back a 5 Year old GPU? ... What a shit show.
The only way they can turn this into an even bigger farce is to bring back the 8 GB variant only. I wouldn't put it past them.
I bet they're gonna make a 6 GB VRAM version and only sell that.
I wouldn't put it past them considering they've released versions of the same GPU with less VRAM without actually announcing it or doing much to differentiate it.
There’s already a 6 GB 3050, seems likely.
A really shitty 5 year old GPU at that lmao
Surprised it wasn't the 3050
it's not that bad, esp considering how mid upgrades 4060 and 5050 are.
Surely this isn't a recession indicator
AI is going from a bubble to an Ouroboros eating the machines of their customers.
Unless they're selling this for like 200$, it's just better to buy a 9060XT.
I've been quite happy with my 9060XT 16gig so far
Makes me feel really smart for buying a used 3080 a year ago.
saw a used 3080ti 12GB version from EVGA change hands for under 400 eurobucks a couple days ago on ebay.
Who is this for? Who is gonna buy this shit?
Retro gamers, who are into such fine releases as uh *checks notes* Hades, Cyberpunk 2077, and Death Stranding
"listen, I love old hardware, I just don't want it to have been used before, that's all"
ass brings back shit to combat fart
Actually p cool that in the future people will just be forced to play SNES and PS1/2 emulators. And KOR, and Devil Daggers-type shit. 
Everything after roughly Half Life 2 doesn't look meaningfully different on low settings than on high. There's a bit of quality uptick a few years after it, but then it's mostly squandering GPU resources on raytracing the fish underwater in the distance to do a bit of hyperbole.
The threshold here is a lot more modern than that. I've not played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 but it's released last year, touted for it's visuals and the minimum req. is an NVIDIA 1060, that's gonna be a decade old at this point. And that's if you want to play current a current release AAA (I know it's not) title.
What games can the new cards run that the 30 series cant?
My card is much older and i haven't run into issues
I'm still on a 2070s and I can run pretty much whatever. Graphics are going to have to stop getting better because literally nobody can afford expensive cards anymore
It helps that I'm old but I don't even see much of a difference between AAA graphics over the past 5+ years...
There really hasn't been much progress. A lot of big games, like Elden Ring, have been cross-gen and nobody optimizes these days. The best-looking games always prioritize great art direction over just having the most polygons and cutting-edge tech.
The best-looking games always prioritize great art direction over just having the most polygons and cutting-effects tech.
I figure this is why remastered games sell so well. Making the art direction of a 25 year old game look clear on modern screens is a guaranteed hit.
Hell even if they totally redo it like in diablo 2 remastered but still keep the vibe it's so much better than just realism
I figure this is why remastered games sell so well. Making the art direction of a 25 year old game look clear on modern screens is a guaranteed hit.
Notable Exception for the GTA remaster here, that looked like massive ass
True
We've been at the point of diminishing returns for graphics for a while, the only way to make them impressive now is to throw an ungodly number of crunch hours at your game making it pretty.
And even then, I'm gonna tank the settings so it runs smoothly every time. I refuse to care about "mind-blowing" graphics, I will take 60+ FPS and potato mode any day.
Same, I wouldn't mind if every game still looked like Morrowind or Jedi Outcast as long as they played good.
I think I'm still using a 1080 or somewhere around there and the only thing it's choked on was the space Marine game. Like everything else I enjoy it's done quite well with.
I'm on a 1080Ti and i haven't had the urge to upgrade
The only reason I want to freshen up is because when I built my comp over a decade ago I used, what was sufficient at the time, a too small default memory card for the computer to boot from and now it's struggling to not choke itself on its own bloat. Not mentioning since my last expedition overseas when I shut down the system for a long time the file explorer has become buggy and slow.
I'm torn between saying fuck it and finally build a new system with more modern parts or trying to keep what I got and try to continually fix it because I can't be fucked to deal with trying to work with redownloading windows 10 on a new system and having it try to force me to use version 11. Oh the banality of being a tech barbarian.
Kneeling at the altar of windows XP sp2 and longing for a bygone era.
Oh I miss XP. It was a vibe
Yeah, I probably used 7 for a lot longer in the extended timeline but something about it felt right.
Ok I cant not also mention that until the remaster came out it was the only operating system that ran starcraft brood war without input lag and graphical errors
I know you've probably considered this already but Linux would breath new life into the old gal
It's a pain to fuck with downloading anything because it takes tens of minutes for file explorer to open and a good chunk of the time it crashes itself.
If you've got access to any other computers in your life, you could get a live USB going. Before installing, you could backup your files while you're in the live environment.
This is the first time I've heard of live USBs. We truly live in the future don't we. It's just a bit more shit than we dreamed of when we were kids.
Ehhh 2k 21:9 makes most 30-series GPUs choke. It’s straight up 2.5x the amount of pixels vs a 1080p 16:9. Final Fantasy 16 is unplayable until you get past the VRAM wall. 8GB VRAM cards are dead in the water at this point, despite the insistence of Reddit.
4070ti super has been serving me very well to brute force those poorly optimized titles
1080p is enough