cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33746154
If you’re currently considering on buying a new Graphics Card (GPU) for your computer it’s advised to hold for now as:
We strongly believe you should not buy a graphics card right now. This is because we’re expecting the announcement of next gen GPUs in the first week of January 2025. This is when the consumer electronics show takes place in Las Vegas and during the show we expect NVIDIA to announce the Geforce RTX 50 series and AMD to announce RDNA 4 based GPUs. New graphics cards means the potential for new levels of performance at existing price points…and for improvements in price to performance at the very least and that could be anything from a minor gain to a modest gain based on the last couple of generations.
Again what this means is that customers who hold off on buying are more likely to have a larger window for better deals as the flood of newer GPUs should push the price of previous gen cards somewhat lower than the newest ones on the market.
Tim from Hardware Unboxed (in the primary vid I linked) does a great and thorough breakdown🤌 on the current price to performance comparisons that I would highly recommend watching whenever you get the chance to do so!~🫡
If you’re new to buying PC components please be advised in that I would highly recommend watching some GPU performance comparisons (such as GN’s 7900 GRE review and comparisons) as otherwise you might accidentally buy a new GPU but with the performance of the previous series for a higher cost :/
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Wait until the end of January to buy a video card.
Counterpoint: you’re Americanese and you’re aware there’s gonna be tariffs and shit
I’ll likely be upgrading Q1-ish, 1080ti is getting real long in the tooth. Remains to be seen whether I’ll be getting an RX 7900 XTX or something as yet unannounced.
Is this so called sudden price drop of previous gen cards going to happen though? Because it hasn’t for the past couple generations. Both AMD and NVIDIA continue to play games with artificial stock shortages to keep the prices pushed up.
Also it sounds like theres some really fucking bad tarrifs coming if you live in North America. So I’m not sure I’d hold off if I found a really good deal on a card right now.
