Massive in some casesis it really that big of a jump?? I have a 3090 now.
I went absolutely balls deep, scorched earth earlier this year. I put it down to a midlife crisis and having no social life, lol. Bagged myself the following:
Intel i9 13900K CPU (upgrade from i7 9700K)
32GB DDR5 6400Mhz (upgrade from 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz)
Corsair H150i Elite LCD cooler (upgrade from NZXT X62)
RTX 4090 GPU (upgrade from 3080Ti)
All hooked up to my Asus PG42UQ OLED.
I'm good for the foreseeable.
3080 —> 4090
GPU wise I went from an Nvidia 6200... LE. A 6200 would be like a RTX 4020 lol but it wasn't just a 6200 it was the LE version that was the most crippled version of them all. It had what was it, either 64MB or 128MB of VRAM lol. I went from that to an amazing AMD 7870 with 2GB of VRAM, it destroyed every game at played at 1080p in 2012, it also obliterated all my consoles. The PS3 and 360 were dinosaurs compared to the 7870 and funny enough the PS4 GPU became a 7870 but the weaker laptop version. Hell of an upgrade!What upgrade to your PC did you make that DRASTICALLY improved performance in every facet?
I have only been doing this PC gaming thing for a year now... but going from a 5600g to a 5600x + 6650 XT was AMAZING. So many games that i ran at sub FHD could be maxed out at 1440p with good performance, it was great.
Yes. The Crush games are incredible.Going to show my age here, but let me tell you, the jumps in graphics, sound etc... was so much bigger in the early days of gaming 80s-90s than today. Even 2000s were more jumps.
Going from a 386sx 16mhz 2d graphics to a pentium 2 with 3d graphics in 1999. I gamed primarly on genesis -> ps1 during those years between 94-99 as my pc was shit by then. Was great for 1990-94.
I went from :
386sx 16mhz
1mb edo ram, 40mb hdd,
1mb oak graphics mem SuperVGA card (649x480 64k colors at once, or 800x600 256 colors at once)
Sound Blaster pro
1x cd rom, 2400k baud modem
windows 3.1
To a:
Pentium 2 (clone cyrix cpu) 266mhz mmx pc socket7,
32mb edo ram , 2gb hdd
Voodoo 3 16mb pci card (16bit 3d)
CDRW drive, 56k modem
Windows 98se
It was like going from a ford escort to a sports car.
Of course I wasn't satisfied. That cyrix chip was shit. I got the pc from my coz for $200 so I wasn't complaining.
I slapped a voodoo5 in there, and a sb live. The sblive actually gave me 5-20fps boost as the cpu was so bad for 3d that offloading sound to dedicated hardware helped so much.
A year later i did my first full build a Pentium 3 650mhz, 256mb sdram, Geforce3, dvd and broadband.
and
To this:
Major jump both in 2d and 3d. It was like going up a decade in hardware.
Now if you mean more modern, I would say going from a nvidia 6800 to 8800gts. Crysis was awesome on that.
Going from nvida 1060gtx to 3060ti rtx was a jump (especially for the wallet) but outside of ray tracing, and fps there isn't much difference.
Borfore the 386 i was working with a 8088 8bit cpu, 256k ram pc with 16k cga graphics, pc speaker(beeps and boops) 2 5.25in floppies and no hard disk, DOS 2.11. The games looked like this.
So going from that to a 386 with vga/svga and sound blaster was amazing too!
and if go further back some consoles and apple computer:
Atari 2600:
Apple iic:
Intellivision:
I had NES and TurboGrafx16 as well in the 80s. This was quite the jump from NES... but this thread seems more pc based, although i will post the screenshot, of one of my favorite games, along with it's brother Devi's Crush.
No one really made video pinball like those two games again, sadly.
from NES:to TG16:
nope. dont agree.I think everyone who was on PC pre SSDs can agree this has to be one of if not the biggest upgrades unless you go back way way back.
So you in fact do agree that we would have to go way way back to feel the same upgrade that SSDs brought.nope. dont agree.
SSDs are imho the same class as HDR or 4k (maybe even 144Hz displays), nice to have but not really a massive upgrade like other components are, ie CPUs (speed and core count) and GPU and more faster RAM that accelarates everything all the time nonstop and not just let's say shortens the coffee break. Sure, faster loading is nice, but only some PS4 games loaded realy really re ea aa ll ly slow (RDR2, Metro Exodus), but even PS3 was imho usually fast enough to not be annoying. While on PC some programs still seem to unpack whatever and take their time with SSDs. Launching my oldass Linux laptop on a regular 5400rpm disk isn't that much slower than the modern laptop and current PCs I use with SSDs. Sure faster in seconds, but perceivably still within my this is acceptable timeframe. After the intial boot and start of programs SSDs speeds are not really doing much for anything. Going from 7200rpm directly to M2 might have made a bigger impact, but SATA SSDs were nowhere close to what improvement in smoothness a first DualCore or what gains GPUs brought when Geforce was still a new label.