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Kind of cool,where for some systems its possible to use an external portable gpu and lossless scaling.



The only issue I guess is that you need recent devices that have thunderbolt 4 for example.

This is pretty interesting too. I offloaded my 4790k + 3060 + 16gb DDR3 setup to a friend so it's still in use. For 130€ more that's not a bad idea. I've used Lossless Scaling myself for a long time (for scaling, never for frame gen) and it's a decent software.

You know I started thinking, I wonder if that two-card frame gen trick would work with a 5080 at 4K.

I usually get around 80-140 fps in more demanding games, but my monitor is 240Hz. Could I double my FPS with some cheap 130€ arc card? I guess the only question is if those cheap intel cards have enough horsepower to generate a hundred frames at 4k, but at that price it might be worth giving it a shot just for the hell of it. In theory a higher base frame rate should lead to less artifacting and ghosting, right?

Perhaps I should've held on to my 3060 to use that as a secondary frame gen card instead, but oh well.

This is the first I've heard of using a spare GPU for Lossless Scaling, that's insanely innovative.
I've only known of CrossFire and SLI and they weren't worth the money spent for the frames the could output.

am not from the U.S. myself, but I do talk to a few friends who live there, and the situation with Nvidia’s 40-series cards isnt as bad as what we’ve seen in some other regions , but it’s definitely not great either.

From what they told me, the price spikes in the U.S. haven’t reached the absurd levels we saw during the crypto boom, and a 4090 usually stays somewhere around its MSRP or slightly above. But compared to the launch price, it's still noticeably inflated, especially since Nvidia isnt really lowering prices even as the generation ages.

Where I live, it's been much worse. During the peak demand — crypto mining, AI model training, and general supply issues — the RTX 4090 shot up to around $3,199, and even at that price people kept buying it. That kept the market artificially high, and it feels like gamers basically got pushed out of the high-end GPU segment entirely.

Honestly, a big part of the frustration comes from Nvidia’s own strategy. Jensen Huang clearly knows that AI demand lets them charge whatever they want, and gaming buyers no longer matter the way they used to. That shift in priorities is why so many of us are annoyed at him — it feels like GPUs have moved from being gaming hardware to being industrial equipment with gaming as a side bonus.

Right now, buying a top-tier card at the "official price" feels almost impossible in many places. If this keeps up, I don’t know how regular gamers are supposed to keep up with the hobby

If this keeps up, I don’t know how regular gamers are supposed to keep up with the hobby

They need to open their eyes to the fact that most games that are worth playing don't require a giga GPU to run

They need to open their eyes to the fact that most games that are worth playing don't require a giga GPU to run

So true, some of the best games have stylized graphics that don't need an amazing GPU to run, like Hollow Knight: Silksong that everyone and their mother is gushing about right now, or stuff like Hades.

It really sucks that crypto, AI are driving up GPU prices so much though, there are definitely valid uses of GPUs outside of gaming (like rendering, more traditional data science workflows etc.) but crypto and Generative AI (not talking about the more traditional "AI" stuff if you know you know) isn't it.

Man AI is driving everything up in price now. We've hit this point where due to Open AI buying up 40% of the worlds ram supply for the next year has now caused a ram shortage.

Which is going to bleed into price increases for everything GPUs, Smartphones, Single board computers and whatnot.

Raspberry pi has started selling 1gb raspberry pi 5's now and they've even caused a pricehike.

I believe AMD GPUs are having a price hike starting tomorrow or something too.

Samsung can't even buy memory from Samsung for their phones.

The RAM mafia is getting conceited.

Their greed and hubris shall be their downfall.

Man AI is driving everything up in price now. We've hit this point where due to Open AI buying up 40% of the worlds ram supply for the next year has now caused a ram shortage.

Luckily, you can follow Ass Spanker advice

They need to open their eyes to the fact that most games that are worth playing don't require a giga GPU to run

and run Quake World maxed out at 400+ fps with less than a GB of RAM on a 20 year old PC.

run Quake World maxed out at 400+ fps with less than a GB of RAM on a 20 year old PC.

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Gotta keep it real. My previous username seemed to be generating a lot of false expectations and the mods were receiving too many complaints from people who met me in real life. I'm still not sure how "bigDick69" could have given anyone the wrong idea...

and run Quake World maxed out at 400+ fps with less than a GB of RAM on a 20 year old PC.

software rendered QuakeWorld > GLQuakeWorld

(and software quakeworld doesn't scale quite as easily but still performs very well at high resolutions if you make some patches to the sources)