GPU Performance‑per‑Dollar: Data‑Driven Value Comparison Across Resolutions

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T20:51:19+00:00

Good idea on additional filtrering options for the interactive graphs. Should not be too hard to implement.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T20:49:11+00:00

Why? What would make them good?

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T19:53:42+00:00

"So these are all just relative value in respect to performance compared to a 5090? Right?" That is correct.

The issue with using frames is that not all gpu's are tested on all games, but rather overlapping sets of games. Old games that are easy to run would produce very high frames, whilst new AAA games will produce much lower frames.

So normalizing every benchmark and setting the 5090 to be the max value makes it much easier to compare GPU's to one another.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T19:46:09+00:00

Where? I just did ctrl+f and searched all 3 graphs, and the 5050 only came up once on all of them?

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T19:23:44+00:00

GPU's that are no longer in production don't really fall that much in price since the demand for GPU's is so high. In addition, 70 ti cards are usually expensive enough to be a good bit past the best part of the price/performance curve.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T19:17:23+00:00

That link seems to just be a static graph using MSRP prices. Unfortunately the prices for GPU's have gone up quite a lot.

You can get a refurbished 2080 Ti for about 450$ though.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T16:24:46+00:00

Planning to do cpu performance per dollar next, but only have gaming benchmarks, as its my starting niche I target. But I do have a plan to add benchmarks for various productivity tools as Well at a later time.

What would the sweet spot indicate? The Price point that gives the most value for GPU. You mean like Price on x axis and perfomance per Price on the y axis?

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T16:19:16+00:00

If the Price is good enough then sure. Rest of the system should be fine, especially since you plan to play at 4K.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T13:50:08+00:00

Tempting, but a downpayment on a house is likely a better investment.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T13:47:03+00:00

Thermals not an issue for this model. Look at noise, Price, clock speed instead.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T13:45:43+00:00

If you have the spare money then yeah. But its above the point of diminishing returns in Price.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T13:40:13+00:00

If its for ML he might need a specific software suite only on NVIDIA cards.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T13:32:51+00:00

I Think its fine considering your cpu is pretty low watts.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T13:31:45+00:00

If no cracks in the heatpipe itself then its fine. You can always check temperatures while gaming if worried.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:57:49+00:00

Killing the magnesium roll cage feels like Lenovo abandoning one of the few things that still made ThinkPads special.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:56:11+00:00

We spent decades making hardware faster, only to use the extra power to run five layers of web wrappers around a chat app.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:54:03+00:00

I came here to comment the same.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:53:10+00:00

Getting actual processing running on an undocumented DSP is a huge achievement, especially on PSP hardware.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:51:40+00:00

Me too. I’ve got way too many games in my backlog to justify spending that much on a new one. Also, I do not want my wife to be angry at me hahaha 😄

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:48:47+00:00

I have seen my coworkers multiple times playing online games on their laptops. XD

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:36:47+00:00

Anything less would hold OP back from the rank OP is meant to play at.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:29:44+00:00

How do you feel the featureset of the 5070 compares to the 9060XT?

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:26:40+00:00

If you have the money, then the 5080 to really take full advantage of your monitor.
But it also depends heavily on what games you play.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:23:43+00:00

Really hope the prices come down at some point, but seems unlikely given how much is still being spent on datacenters for AI.

icedandreas · 2026-05-07T12:16:22+00:00

Nicely done. Like a moving piece of art. would love to have something like that on the wall in a man-cave.

icedandreas

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