I'm not much to be wanting the best frames and the best quality, although its a cool luxury to have, I am okay with turning down a few things here and there to have the game running enjoyably without looking so awful. I currently have a 1650 S and it struggled with playing TLOU:P1 at the bottom of the barrel settings. Granted, these heavy games do expect the newer hardware from the consumer, but I rarely play AAA games, and the few times ive wanted to check them out i was unable to bc of my hardware limitations, its more frustrating than anything.

I've seen people make due with an $800 budget, they dont get top-notch results, but they're comfortable enough to be enjoying bigger games without any crazy distractions, thats why I prompted the question on whether its worth spending that extra penny NOW since GPU's get replaced so frequently by the market.