In some ways, yes, in a lot of ways, oh hell no.
. And that actually only made me feel worse about the mainstream market. The RX 6500 XT delivers all the performance of an AMD card that cost the same price when the RX 480 launched back in 2016 and the RTX 3050, well in my review I said that"where I wanted at least RTX 2060 performance, I've got GTX 1660 Ti frame rates with a little RTX frosting on top.". A device that is uniquely PC in its makeup, and the equivalent of our Switch.
. So, I won't keep banging on about the Steam Deck, though that was a bright point of the year for sure. In turn that meant prices finally started to drop for GPUs. Though not particularly quickly, and we're still not talking about fire sale pricing here either, just that you might actually be able to find the graphics card you want for only about 25% above its MSRP. If you were lucky.Nvidia raised the barrier of entry to such a scale that only its rich fans were invited to the party.