alt Hacker NewsTechnology has always been deflationary. But you don't put off buying a computer because it will be cheaper next year. Nobody seems to be putting off buying GPUs despite scary depreciation and a blistering pace of new product introductions that are ever cheaper faster and better.
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mr_toad • today at 2:21 PM
Some people do put off buying cellphones and laptops when they know a new model will come out every year.
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Ray20 • today at 2:47 PM
> But you don't put off buying a computer because it will be cheaper next year.
Why not? Sounds like a pretty reasonable strategy.
> Nobody seems to be putting off buying GPUs
Many people doing exactly that.
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only really faster and better if you don't use them for gaming, unfortunately. Upscaling and frame generation is not a better GPU, it's one with a band-aid applied to hide the fact that it actually did not get much faster.
RTX doesn't count to me either, because that's some bullcrap pushed by gpu manufacturers that requires the aformentioned upscaling and frame generation techniques to fake actually being anywhere close to what gpu manufacturers want gamers to believe.