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RaiShado t1_isbilxz wrote

Raytraced games can be taxing. Look at Cyberpunk

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FormulaTacoma t1_isbitmr wrote

Yah but like 1 game? Plus is seems like the vast majority are playing e sports games that still run on my rx580. I’m ready to upgrade and it’s so overwhelming now lol

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homelessdreamer t1_isbl73k wrote

Do you remember when crysis came out. Building a computer that could run that game became such a cultural phenomenon within the enthusiast community it is still used as a trope today. 1 game is all it takes to keep things rolling.

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Numarx t1_isbp5fj wrote

It was much more of a meme than an actual bar that people were competing for. No one said "Can it run Crysis at max settings?". It was pretty much "Can it run Crysis?". My shitty ass computer could run Crysis just fine. Hell a lot of youtubers who run benchmarks still use CS-GO as a benchmark.

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imdyingfasterthanyou t1_iscp58p wrote

CS:GO is a great benchmark because there is a lot of data on it and it is largely CPU-bound so it works great to test CPUs or CPU/GPU scaling.

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FormulaTacoma t1_isblgsm wrote

Yah but do you hear anyone referring to cyberpunk in that way?

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Fugueknight t1_isc9cyd wrote

VR is also a big performance suck. Most native VR games run pretty efficiently, but if you want to play sim games with a VR mode you pretty much need a 3080+ to get decent power for a 4k headset (and 4k is the "minimum" for sim games - obviously people make do with less, but it's tough to read dials/labels/etc. below 4k).

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