But are things really that bad?
It goes without mention that last year’s 6-core/12-thread R5 2600 is barelya little over $100new.
So at least on the CPU front, things have without question never been better.
Memoryandstoragepricing is also amazing right now, but what aboutgraphics cards?
Then a month later, theGTX 1070did the same with $400 Founders Edition model.
So what kind of performance improvement should you be looking at?
Powering the GPU test rig is a Core i9-9900K overclocked to 5 GHz with 16GB of DDR4-3400 memory.
We’ll look at about a dozen games more closely before jumping into a performance breakdown graph.
Interestingly we see very little difference between the GeForce GPUs in the new Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
This is actually the best result for the GTX 1070 of all 37 games tested.
The old Pascal GPU is still quite impressive in this title.
The 2060 Super was also 31% faster than the 1070 which isn’t too bad.
Those are massive gains for the current generation $400 GPUs.
World War Z plays nicely on the GeForce GTX 1070, even at 1440p.
Here it maintains over 60 fps at all times.
Some strong gains to be had with the newer GPUs.
For what it’s worth, the gains were also slightly larger at 1080p.
At 1440p the difference in performance is very noticeable.
On average the 2060 Super was 35% faster at 1440p.
That’s not amazing progress after 3 years, but it’s not terrible either.
AMD is offering almost 50% more performance at 1440p and that’s certainly a substantial performance improvement.
What Have We Learned?
Back when the GeForce GTX 770 was released (yes, wereviewed it in 2013!
This kept prices down and with a healthy amount of competition we also often saw price cuts.
Another factor worth considering is VRAM.
The typical GTX 770 came configured with 2GB and only select models carried 4GB.
The newer GPUs get faster GDDR6 memory but there is no crippling factor based on limited memory capacity.
That’s a very reasonable performance gain after 3 years.
So is PC hardware that bad in 2019?
Are we really getting rolled as some say?
That seems like solid progress to us.
We feel a 48% improvement over the GTX 1070 is a good place to be at.
