Not trying to start an argument here, but lets be honest... 90% of PC games coming our right now are indie games and will run max on intel b580

[Fleetboy2024]

majority of them at least...


so basically, you buying an expensive GPU just to run a few games that you probably wont play

just

doesnt

make




sense....

 

[Alm]

There are a lot more indie games being injected into the market, but still around the same amount of AAA games that were always being made.

 

[Frindis]

Most people don't juggle many games though, so it makes sense that you buy a good high end graphics card if you are only going to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2025 on 4K or Cyberpunk 2077 with all the fancy graphics on ultra while snapping super high resolutions screenshots.

I don't care that much for the absolute super fancy graphics, but I definitely care for quality, so I use RTX 3070 8GB. It is a high end card, but on the lower spectrum and it makes me able to play games like Cyberpunk 2077 comfortably even if I can't juice the game to much graphics wise.

I'm in the rare breed category when it comes to gamers, since I juggle more games than I do my underwear, so I need a card that can play both AAA(A) and indie games the like with as much quality a possible depending on the type of genre off course since you don't want to have to much quality in FPS games making FPS drop like a pile of kakapo.

 

[Colif]

so basically, you buying an expensive GPU just to run a few games that you probably wont play

Yes but most PC need a GPU to show a picture.

While some CPU have igpu in them now, they aren't really capable of running a game (besides laptops which well, some can)

but the igpu inside desktop CPU aren't at that level yet,

So most people still need to buy something to play games.

Whether they need the top end is questionable.

And you never know, there might be a AAA game worth buying one day. So having a GPU that can run it is handy... just not worth having one that costs a fortune and randomly causes fires

There can be other reasons to get a new card, you might have a monitor with a refresh rate your current card can't match, so quality of life improvements can be a reason. I had a 2070 Super that could only run my screen at 100, but screens max is 144. Now my GPU can run faster than my screen which is a better position to be in. I am thinking about a new monitor next year but might try to stay within range GPU can run 2k at.

New cards can make old games run better... unless its a 50 series card and game uses physx (Black Flag for instance).
Generally replaying old games on new GPU is a better experience.