And with an MSRP of $239, I remember going to Micro Center and it was sold out. I just can’t believe we’re still getting 8GB cards in 2025.
And with an MSRP of $239, I remember going to Micro Center and it was sold out. I just can’t believe we’re still getting 8GB cards in 2025.
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Hey OP, do you still remember when getting the top-tier GPU doesn’t just mean it cost you your entire organ inside your body to afford it? Good times.. right?
I remember my first build having a gtx 970, damn it’s been 10 years already and many build laters. I remember them putting two of these against the titan I think
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The Vapor-X R9 290X. 8GB in 2013 for basically the same price as the 5060Tis with 8GB for mediocre models. 💀
It’s obviously vastly outdated nowadays, but it would be nice if the companies would stop going backwards.
If nvidia was willing to hit the same price point as the 2GB GTX 1050 ($109 in 2016, 145 in 2025), I don’t think I’d care that it had “only” 8GB of VRAM…
MSRP: $239
Paid $240 for mine in 2016 when I built my first computer. Played RDR2 on it and it handled that game like a champ. The 8GB of VRAM certainly gave it alot of longevity.
I bought that bad boy for $280, water cooled it, de shrouded it, frankensteined it and now it lives in a relatives PC.
I still have mine. Its on display lol
Still have mine flashed to a 580, still does well in my old system (4790k, 16GB DDR3).
my RX580 is still chugging along very well in a secondary computer and it always amazes me how good these cheap little things are. Truly punched above their weight class.
“The only metric I’m smart enough to understand is VRAM count” if I’ve ever seen it.
It was pretty good too, used one for awhile after my 290X cooked it’s own RAM. Fuck you HIS.
Getting a 4070S from a 1070TI last year was definitely the right call even if it’s only 12GB
AMD about to release a 128bit card next month, I just hope they cancelled the 8gb variants because it’d be a bloodbath in reviews.
I remember getting my RX 580 for $159, albeit on eBay. Now I’m grateful I only paid $1999 for my GPU 🤡
Mine’s still chugging along in my rig to this day
Remember coming out of the 1st cryptopocalypse. These GPUs were everywhere and so cheap. We had new GPU releases + old mining GPUs.
The PC gaming hype was real. People were building “console killers” left and right. Those were the days.
But the manufacturers learned their lesson, and at the end of the 2nd cryptopocalypse, they delayed the new generation + raised the prices. It killed any chance of getting the great value that we saw during the 1st. It’s just been downhill ever since.
The first GPU I ever purchased with my own money was an ATI 3870×2 for $500 CAD in 2008.
The last GPU I bought was a 5090 for $4100 CAD today.
Even adjusted for inflation, that 3870×2 is only 700 today. And that was literally TWO top end GPUs on one card.
What the fuck man. I feel bad for kids trying to get into this stuff. I used to be able to afford top end gear working part time while in school. No way a kid today can.
Back then I got one of the 4GB blower styles and flashed the bios to unlock the other 4GB on the pcb making it an 8GB version.
Legend card.
10 years later and we still doing 8 gb
How is it possible that in 2025, we’re somehow paying more for the same 8gb of vram? 1080ti could never
Dayum, I remember this. There was *a massive* astroturfing campaign by Nvidia to try highlighting it broke the PCIe spec and could overpower the PCIe slot, destroying your expensive motherboard. Nvidia later recounted it as one of the most effective opinion campaigns they’d ever run.
It was true, and would possibly even be a problem if Nvidia’s GTX 750 Ti, GTX 750, and GTX 960 weren’t doing the exact same thing without blowing out anyone’s motherboard and had been for a few years before the RX 480’s release.
Anyhow, RX 480 was up against the GTX 1060 6 GB both in price and in performance for most of its life and it was damn solid against it. Polaris 10 was an almost-unchanged resynthesis of the earlier Tonga GPU, a few more CUs (from 32 to 36) but quadrupling the L2 cache from 512 kB to 2048 kB. GCN had always been quite cache heavy and Nvidia had been catching up with Maxwell (GM204 also boosted cache to 2 MB).
On release it was meant to take on, in price at least, GTX 970 (which had been on the market for a while already) and it did, easily, more or less across the board.
The RX 570 8GB, based on the same GPU (with some units disabled, but not many), is *still* a fairly okay low-end 720p/1080p GPU even today.