Originally I wanted to upgrade my primary PC last December, but the price increases made me postpone it, luckily my RTX 2060 is still holding the fort quite well, so the primary thing that annoys me is that I have assembled this machine with only 16 GB of RAM, which means that multitasking, especially when virtualizing is a bit tight with that much amount of RAM.

I did a budget upgrade on my Ryzen 9 based machine last september.

Glad I did. I have a decent-ish RTX and 64gb of ram, decent enough compute, and SSD storage.

I'll just wait for the bubble to pop, like everyone with more brains than money will.

Law212 wrote on 2026-05-05, 17:24:

Dimos wrote on 2026-05-05, 17:20:

keenmaster486 wrote on 2026-05-05, 15:50:

1080 series never stops winning. That really was the pinnacle of performance/bestAvailablePerformance/price

I think the Kepler - Maxwell - Pascal series of Gpus was Nvidia's pinnacle. Each generation showed significantly increased performance along with increased power and thermal efficiency, all this in very reasonable prices and with non existent competition from Amd. From the next generation of gpus and forth prices began to skyrocket and will (probably) never go back to those levels again. Sad, but true.

True.

I look back and think I should have held on to my PC build with the 1080 ti , but ah well its gone now. the 1080 ti did amazing for so long.

The 1080 Ti will go down in history as maybe the goat of gpus. The- pre ray tracing era - rasterization king, the first Gpu that made 4k gaming at ultra settings a reality, similar to what the 980 ti made with 2k. If i could somehow make a single pc component work with Xp (that until now doesn't), this particular Gpu would be it, so i would be covered in a dual boot - win xp, win 7 machine, even in the most extreme scenarios.

I also now think the same about one of my past pc builds. It had an Albatron 865 mobo, a 3.2 ghz pentium 4 and a Sapphire hd 3850 agp(!) Gpu. Back then it seemed like an outdated pc and was sold for an amount of money that now seem like nothing. Only if i did know back then that it was essentially an almost ultimate agp system, that i would now appreciate so much.

Dimos wrote on 2026-05-05, 17:10:

I am not a U.S. citizen, so I don't know exactly how does the currency/market inflation develop each year there. The general trend of course is that as time goes by, prices for every available product or service increase, so the currency loses gradually its power, but that is absolutely true only in the long term context. In the short term, lets say, from a given year to the next one, or two years later, its not impossible for deflation to happen. So the spreadsheet could be correct.

While it is certainly not impossible, a quick web search will show that didn't happen on a macro level in the US, nor was it close to happening.

Okay, I recalculated those numbers using the BLS CPI tool and added some more stats.

Why did I include a benchmark/price/price metric? To give you an idea of which card you might choose if you want high performance/dollar but don't want to spend a large total amount of money.

In any case, in benchmark/price the 1080 Ti is only just beat by the 4090, but not the 5090.

keenmaster486 wrote on 2026-05-05, 22:23:

Okay, I recalculated those numbers using the BLS CPI tool and added some more stats. […]
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Okay, I recalculated those numbers using the BLS CPI tool and added some more stats.

Why did I include a benchmark/price/price metric? To give you an idea of which card you might choose if you want high performance/dollar but don't want to spend a large total amount of money.

In any case, in benchmark/price the 1080 Ti is only just beat by the 4090, but not the 5090.

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Thanks, that data looks much better.

There is something to be said for utility over time. If you bought the 1080, you didn’t just get the card today, you got years of gaming too. If you waited years to buy the 4090, what did you do in the mean time?