… The GTX 1660 Ti was one of the last great budget GPUs Over the last 5–6 years, GPU manufacturers have, more or less, eliminated the budget segment. The "budget" GPUs we have today are either too expensive or too underpowered to be compared with the likes of the GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 3060. …
… Anyone with an RTX 3090, RTX 4080/90, and RTX 5080/90 is clearly underutilizing their GPU if they aren't also using their GPU for heavy editing workloads and hosting local LLMs . …
… The planned Super lineup was built around increasing VRAM capacity by around 50%, which would have meant cards like the RTX 5070 Super were rumored to be shipping with 18GB, and both the RTX 5070 Ti Super and RTX 5080 Super carrying 24GB. …
… From launching the "world's first GPU" and the CUDA architecture for parallel programming to the iconic Pascal lineup, and bringing real-time ray tracing to games with the Turing GPUs, Nvidia has been at the cutting edge of GPU computing. …
… Not only did AMD lock FSR 4 upscaling and features behind the RX 9000 GPUs, but Nvidia supported the latest DLSS 4.5 upscaling to older RTX 20 and RTX 30 series as well, despite the difference in architecture. …
… The Intel Arc was never a contender to the high-end RTX or Radeon cards, but it never had to be. The Arc B580 launched in late 2024 at $250, and was widely regarded as a worthy "budget" GPU especially at a time when the category itself had started to vanish completely from the shelves. …
… That said, the RTX 50-series, especially the RTX 5090, isn't a transformational upgrade like the RTX 4090 was when it came out. Honestly, if it wasn't for Multi-Frame Generation, I don't think this lineup would've had the same wow factor at all. …
… The 9600K is also permanently tethered to PCIe 3.0 on aging Z390 motherboards, leading to another situation where pairing a beefy GPU would be futile. Even if you have a modern RTX 50-series or RX 9000-series GPU, your experience will almost certainly be crippled by a massive CPU bottleneck. …
… An RTX 6000 series card with 8GB, however, could easily use NTC's Inference on Sample method, and that's what you can expect Nvidia to announce when it's time to unveil the next generation of its GPU lineup. …
… GPUs like the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB never cost less than $470, even before the DRAM crisis inflated prices across the board. And it's the lowest-tier GPU you'd have to buy if you want decent 1440p performance without running into VRAM issues. …
