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    [OC] GPU Performance vs. Inflation-Adjusted Prices: A Look at Value Over Time

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    1. ProjectOlio on

      Inspired by some of the chart from yesterday, I plotted GPU performance (Relative 1080p medium settings – data from Tom’s Hardware) against their inflation-adjusted launch prices (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics)

      **High-end GPUs** like the RTX 4090 and 3090 Ti dominate performance but come with massive price tags.

      **Diminishing returns** are clear at the top end—spending more doesn’t always mean significantly better performance.

      here is all of my raw (and not pretty at all) data;

      [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aCCedmz67MPvvTNhOw4JdduilxstxvoL_c3D8h6FAtA/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aCCedmz67MPvvTNhOw4JdduilxstxvoL_c3D8h6FAtA/edit?usp=sharing)

    2. combatsmithen1 on

      This is awesome. Got a 1070 in 2016. Nice to see that it was relatively speaking, at the time, a price to performance king. Still running it today.

      EDIT: Need a 3d plot with 3rd axis by launch date haha

    6. ReflectiveHymn on

      Very interesting data, however I would have expected the axes to be flipped (performance in X, price in Y), maybe just me though.

    7. Coldaine on

      Relative performance to what? The 4090? This doesn’t show what I think people believe it is showing. It’s basically a timeline as it is presented here.

      You probably want uplift over previous generation.

      Source: Make power point slides for a living.

    9. pewbdo on

      It’s missing the titan x pascal which is a pretty important card. It was the first pascal architecture titan, came out August 2016 at $1,200 and was beat to shit by the 1080ti on value/performance a few months later. The 5080 I got for $1,000 is a fucking bargain compared to the titan I got day one in 2016.