@djlink the 1080 TI was such a great card when it came out, and is probably one of the best budget cards you can get today. It even has 11gb of RAM, so it could be used for some gen AI (though slowly).
@djlink I feel like the biggest drawback of older GPUs is not raw computing power, but the lack of newer features like mesh shaders and ray-tracing capabilities.
@sascharode1986 and I wonder how many of those could be patched in? I know its a new feature but are the new gpus adding physical hardware for those new capabilities or using something that was not available before etc?
@djlink@sascharode1986 they can't be usefully patched in, performance delta is too large. Hardware capabilities are missing and emulating them is too slow. (That said, titles usually have fallback paths for old hardware)
@djlink Really depends on the game and setting though, right? Put Alan Wake 2 into the mix and it's a very different story. Also note that the board power is almost halving there, in some cases your "upgrade" is working within the 125W window that laptop dGPUs operate within.
@djlink I finally upgraded my old desktop from an overclocked 1070 to a 4070 (which I'm running at TDPdown to use less power on average than a stock 1070) and the upgrade in settings + performance is not staggering (it has been many years and the $550 4070 is not quite a direct price swap for the $400 1070 from 2016) but is very substantial. Almost modern games which maxed out a 1070 to hit a 60fps game limit now run at ~50W idling, no fans spinning up on the 4070.
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