Every 80, even the 480 that is the 580. 580 is just a higher clocked 480, and 470 is 480 with a gew cores shut down.
And how should I judge whst is high end if not by where it sits by performance, price, and how they market it.
At the time it was high end, as I said and contrary what he said.
It wasn’t highest end, that was nvidia. But it was definitely, by performance, high end.
The insane prices (and power usages) now, combined with constant hypes, have made people not really objective.
1060 was a great mid card when it came out. 6gb vram. 8gb is mid going towards high end now. I play with 3D rendering for a while now and I wish 16gb was the norm, but it just isn’t.
PS Those amd cards worked a bit differently then nvidias. They were harder to optimize for. And nvidia had more money to trow at driver optimizations and working with big game and game engine studios. So the public view of amd cards was worse. That’s why they said later for amd gpus to “age like fine wine”. When crypto came, they all bought amd cards (easier to write mining kernels since crypto is much simpler then graphics).
200$, even by 2016 standards was not remotely high end. so you couldnt even use it as price.
when the AMD card was on the tier of performace of the 1060, and if THAT is considered “high end” then what is the 70 class gpus. what is the 80 class gpus. what is the titan levels.
when you have 3 distinct tiers above you not even including any possible super or Ti varients of sort, how could you remotely consider it “high end” when you yourself say the 1060 is mid tier.
at a price and performance, the 480/580 is not high end back when it launched, and definitely not high end anytime soon, hence 8gb isnt “high end” in 2026 unless someone has a very short list of gpus they are willing to use. I specifically use the 580 as an example because its actively still being used in poorer regions as the budget card, that actively has 8gb.
Every 80, even the 480 that is the 580. 580 is just a higher clocked 480, and 470 is 480 with a gew cores shut down.
And how should I judge whst is high end if not by where it sits by performance, price, and how they market it.
At the time it was high end, as I said and contrary what he said.
It wasn’t highest end, that was nvidia. But it was definitely, by performance, high end.
The insane prices (and power usages) now, combined with constant hypes, have made people not really objective.
1060 was a great mid card when it came out. 6gb vram. 8gb is mid going towards high end now. I play with 3D rendering for a while now and I wish 16gb was the norm, but it just isn’t.
PS Those amd cards worked a bit differently then nvidias. They were harder to optimize for. And nvidia had more money to trow at driver optimizations and working with big game and game engine studios. So the public view of amd cards was worse. That’s why they said later for amd gpus to “age like fine wine”. When crypto came, they all bought amd cards (easier to write mining kernels since crypto is much simpler then graphics).
Doom 2016 is optimized for those gpus…
200$, even by 2016 standards was not remotely high end. so you couldnt even use it as price.
when the AMD card was on the tier of performace of the 1060, and if THAT is considered “high end” then what is the 70 class gpus. what is the 80 class gpus. what is the titan levels.
when you have 3 distinct tiers above you not even including any possible super or Ti varients of sort, how could you remotely consider it “high end” when you yourself say the 1060 is mid tier.
at a price and performance, the 480/580 is not high end back when it launched, and definitely not high end anytime soon, hence 8gb isnt “high end” in 2026 unless someone has a very short list of gpus they are willing to use. I specifically use the 580 as an example because its actively still being used in poorer regions as the budget card, that actively has 8gb.