Somewhat true, but I also don’t think these cards actually fit that market with the prices especially for those stuck on PCIe3.0 hardware. Imagine buying a new pre-built for a decent sum of money and still being stuck with ~2016 (1050Ti/RX570 4GB) limitations. (even the 8GB version seems to perform just below the RTX 5050, which has lower MSRP but seems to be controversial due to the price)
Maybe the market really is just this terrible, but it does seem like waste of sand territory. I do think this says more about how bloated (and “upgrade your PC” CEO says) games are, though.
Makes me wonder if somebody could chop things down
(downscaling and color quantization) and if it’d make enough difference to justify it, though that would take a lot of work/knowledge (to not look terrible) while already be in legal non-gray area* just like re-packs while also being as niche as Doom-2016 low-spec settings. Practically de-make territory.
* As in you couldn’t legally distribute it even as a post-install texture pack (for games that support that). Maybe it could be done via a script, but this does not allow data saving, and would be really bad if you decide you don’t like the look (and I assume for something like Steam you’d have to be careful that it doesn’t re-download the original textures).
EDIT: I’m seeing some sites say it’s x16, but the wccftech article says both 8GB and 4GB models have PCIe 5.0 x8 (so it could be an issue for even those on PCIe 4.0 motherboards). The 4GB model also has a half memory bus though I don’t know how much that matters especially with differing memory speeds/generations.
Also seems like it needs a power cable still, but maybe the 4GB version is low enough power that a pcie-power-only version could exist.
Somewhat true, but I also don’t think these cards actually fit that market with the prices especially for those stuck on PCIe3.0 hardware. Imagine buying a new pre-built for a decent sum of money and still being stuck with ~2016 (1050Ti/RX570 4GB) limitations. (even the 8GB version seems to perform just below the RTX 5050, which has lower MSRP but seems to be controversial due to the price)
Maybe the market really is just this terrible, but it does seem like waste of sand territory. I do think this says more about how bloated (and “upgrade your PC” CEO says) games are, though.
Makes me wonder if somebody could chop things down
(downscaling and color quantization) and if it’d make enough difference to justify it, though that would take a lot of work/knowledge (to not look terrible) while already be in legal non-gray area* just like re-packs while also being as niche as Doom-2016 low-spec settings. Practically de-make territory.
* As in you couldn’t legally distribute it even as a post-install texture pack (for games that support that). Maybe it could be done via a script, but this does not allow data saving, and would be really bad if you decide you don’t like the look (and I assume for something like Steam you’d have to be careful that it doesn’t re-download the original textures).
EDIT: I’m seeing some sites say it’s x16, but the wccftech article says both 8GB and 4GB models have PCIe 5.0 x8 (so it could be an issue for even those on PCIe 4.0 motherboards). The 4GB model also has a half memory bus though I don’t know how much that matters especially with differing memory speeds/generations.
Also seems like it needs a power cable still, but maybe the 4GB version is low enough power that a pcie-power-only version could exist.