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Do PC gamers feel 12GB of VRAM is simply not enough for the money in 2024?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have an all-AMD system, but they have become too expensive as well. Just Nvidia with a 20% discount, safe for the 7900 XTX which is completely out of question for me to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Cheaper Nvidia ain't bad. This is coming from someone that uses a 3080Ti and refuses to use AMD GPUs because of shit way in the past. I use their processors though, those are amazing i just wish they had support for thunderbolt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You can get amd with thunderbolt. The motherboards with thunderbolt headers are bloody expensive, and you'll need a 200 bucks add in card (which needs to match the motherboard manufacturer I think), so it's not exactly cheap, but it is possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I understand you can shoehorn just about anything you want into a system but that's not the same as supporting it IMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Agreed, and in my experience (Asus board) it's functional but a bit buggy, so not an easy recommendation. Still, if you want or need team red it's an option. Price premium sucked, but wasn't actually noticeably more than if I'd gone team blue. Not sure I'd do it again in hindsight though. Fully functional but only 90% reliable (which is worse than it seems, in the same way a delay of "only" a second every time you do something adds up to a big annoyance) is perhaps not worth it for my use case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Does Intel allow AMD to license thunderbolt? USB might be better in the long term to support.