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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
To hell with FOMO, I've never in my life gone for the top-end card.

What I have done, however, is waited a typical 6 years to get an upgrade which gives me a typical 4x framerate increase.

My 1070 is 6 years old and is starting to need replacing. I could spend 1070 money + inflation again, and get... a 3060ti/6700xt. That's not anywhere close to 4x the framerate of a 1070, that's more like 2x. That's not even guaranteed to let me 'set and forget'/max out current games, let alone games 1-2 years from now.

The 4x cards absolutely exist, technology still progressed, they just exist in whole new price categories.
gpt
That should tell you how amazing 1xxx series was, cause after it we hit a kind of plateau in terms of performance growth.