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cybereality I'd like to be wrong but I think we are in for a quite long and hard recession, world wide. Crypto was a scam from the start and I doubt if it's coming back at least in present form. I'd say things like new vid cards will come up in much slower increments just like cars and all kinds of things to conserve resources. A lot of people will be lucky to have food on the table. The federal reserves of the world are probably some of the biggest idiots anyone ever put in charge.

I guess what I'm saying is, you should make your decision (any decision) based on the available information at this point in time. For example, if you need a new video card, and there is a decent one you like for say $500, and you have $500 to spend, then the choice is clear. It is within your budget, it has the performance you need (and the performance will not drop, regardless of what comes out next month), and it is available today. If you base your logical process on speculation, then you probably have a 50/50 chance of being right (or maybe less, as there are multiple variables, all unknown). It's just not a good decision making process.

For example, there are rumors that a new Nvidia card will come out in 2 months. This is not for sure, there are always wild rumors and most of the time they are bunk. But even if it were true, Nvidia always launches the flagship first. So we may wait another 2 or 3 months for a mid or low range version of the chip. This is not guaranteed, but a safe assumption. So, even in the most optimistic of this rumor/assumption, the RTX 4060 card would be coming out in November. But inventory is typically low, at first, and it will be a hot card everyone wants to buy. So there will be scalpers, the price will be inflated, and there is no idea when it will come down to MSRP. But let's make another assumtion, that inventory will pick up after 2 months and the price will go down. So now we are in January of 2023, and this is with the optimistic prediction. We still don't know if crypto will come back within that timeframe (unlikely, but there is a chance). We don't know how the economy will change, if inflation flies up, or the stock market crashes, or any other event that might make $500 today cost you $1,000 next year. We don't know if there will be manufacturer defects or bad batches (this has frequently happened with Nvidia in the recent years). There are just so many unknowns, and even in the best case scenario, if all those risks went in your favor, you still have to wait until next year, rather than buy a card today and have it in your computer in 3 days. This is why I say that basing purchases on rumors and speculation is always a mistake.

I've given buying things because others suggest I need them. I can't possibly keep up with the rat race anyway. I buy hardware when I need it, not when another sow is being driven through the village (that a valid English saying ? :-)). For my own part, I don't need 4k resolution and imperceptible frame rates, and energy consumption and environmental impact are as important (Edit: proof reading, I'd say more important) to me as latest tech.

There is, for instance, currently no car that interests me. Won't buy a new one even if my old car breaks down, I'll take the bus, then. Take something to read with me. Saves me a lot of time I'd waste holding on to a steering wheel, not the most intelligent occupation ...

Actually, I feel that exactly there Godot stands out from other high end engines, besides from being accessible to everyone through programming interfaces that really work. Unreal didn't for me, and Unity has too much fluff, technically and legally.

Yeah, back to work, nice day everyone :-)

Tomcat My point is that if the difference between Quadro and GeForce was insignificant, the redesigns would be mass-produced.

Well the board is not exactly the same. I don't know about the current designs, but at one point (about 15 years ago) the GeForce and Quadro cards were exactly the same, just with basically a firmware switch that unlocked additional functions. This has changed since then. But in most cases, I would assume the GPU chip itself is the same. Because it is much cheaper to mass produce the same chip for all different models, then to run up a production line for each SKU. However, that is not to say the board is exactly the same. They could have different sizes in RAM, different memory controllers or bus speeds, etc. so it can get complicated.

CPUs are the same way. Basically every i7 chip (of a generation) is the same chip. Intel will mass produce all of the same chip, and the ones that test better become the high end model (which they charge more for) and the ones that are not as good become mid-range or low-end. Or some are slightly defective, so they take an 8-core part, disable 2 cores, and sell it as a 6-core. But they are all essentially the same chip.