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I tested $200-ish GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel—but no matter who wins, budget gamers lose (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends on what you define as "still works fine"

I have a GTX 580 and it still renders frames without crashing. But my GTX 1080 wasn't cutting it for what I was doing so I finally had to upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Fair, to each their own. For me, it is occasional gaming, mostly stuff that is a few years old and/or not from the big studios. Plus some light CAD, video editing and messing around with Cuda once a year or so. Still, unless you want to play the latest and greatest, or want to play in >1080p, it mostly just works while using about 100W with a mild overclock.