Why is Price/Perfomance so terrible compared to a decade ago?

[DannyDem]

I mentioned this in another post aswell and my doubt has to do with the fact that nowadays you have to spend 300-400$ on a GPU to be satisfied for a year or two. 8 years ago for example you could buy a 8800gt(200$) or a 8800gts(300$) and you would be good to go for 3-4 years easily with all settings maxed up (with AA off)... but nowadays you buy 300$ card just for it to be outdated a few years later. Im sure there are people who think diffrently and wont agree with me but from my point of view it seems that the price/perfomance ratio when it comes to gpus is incredibily lower than it was almost a decade and I've been in this business for almost 2 decades.

[Swndlr]

Companies want munnie

And the price of doing things in this world has changed since 10 years ago

[WereCat]

Demand.

Amount of PCs sold in 2005 (Wikipedia - 218.5 milion)

In 2014 (Wikipedia - 315.9)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors#2001.E2.80.932005

 

Also it doesent count in individual parts most likely so the amount of them will be a lot higher in 2014 as well than was in 2005.

[themaniac]

I mentioned this in another post aswell and my doubt has to do with the fact that nowadays you have to spend 300-400$ on a GPU to be satisfied for a year or two. 8 years ago for example you could buy a 8800gt(200$) or a 8800gts(300$) and you would be good to go for 3-4 years easily with all settings maxed up (with AA off)... but nowadays you buy 300$ card just for it to be outdated a few years later. Im sure there are people who think diffrently and wont agree with me but from my point of view it seems that the price/perfomance ratio when it comes to gpus is incredibily lower than it was almost a decade and I've been in this business for almost 2 decades.

its not the cards as much as it is the games improving on everything

[givingtnt]

so to you 3-4 years is long.
but a few years is short.

so basically a few years = 2.   im sorry but my 780 will stay with me longer than 2 years

your logic is wrong

[TheMcSame]

I'm just going to make a wild guess here and assume that you've completely ignored inflation...

 

Anyway....

 

Old cards would last 3-4 years = Good

New cards only last a few years = Bad

 

That moment when you realise 3-4 years is a few years... Generally, "a few" is considered 3-4 (sometimes more), obviously there's nothing set in stone but a few is more than a couple, and a couple is 2 so...

[DannyDem]

so to you 3-4 years is long.

but a few years is short.

so basically a few years = 2.   im sorry but my 780 will stay with me longer than 2 years

your logic is wrong

 

I'm just going to make a wild guess here and assume that you've completely ignored inflation...

 

Anyway....

 

Old cards would last 3-4 years = Good

New cards only last a few years = Bad

 

That moment when you realise 3-4 years is a few years... Generally, "a few" is considered 3-4 (sometimes more), obviously there's nothing set in stone but a few is more than a couple, and a couple is 2 so...

Yeah bad choice of words I guess

 

What i meant is you could buy a 300$ gpu and be good maxing everything up for about 4 years while nowadays a 300$ gpu get's outdated in less than 2 years

[mads1997]

it is becurse development is going way faster to day then 8 years ago games improve why faster and our development of new gpu are way faster taht way stuff get´s outdated faster.