I’m running a 2080 in my desktop, and I haven’t run into a game yet that I need a better card to run (at least, not with my 1080p monitors, which I prefer over higher-res ones). I also got a Framework 16, with the discrete Radeon 7700S GPU, and everything on it runs butter-smooth.
Point is, I can’t see justifying something that is $1600 just so I can run Starsector at the same 60 FPS I already get. It would take some truly groundbreaking game to come along to force me to consider upgrading to these ridiculous cards, and I don’t see that happening given the current consoles out there.
Sure, but are there really enough people who fit into that category to justify these cards? Based on the 4080 series sales, it seems not, but they’re still coming out with even beefier, more expensive cards anyways.
In a similar vein, I grew up around IT because my mom worked on mainframes. I remember lots of nights of sitting under her desk at 3am because she got called in as Production Support when jobs would ABEND. When I was in high school, wanting to learn more about mainframes I set up Hercules, a mainframe System3xx emulator (looks like it supports z/OS now as well), and managed to find boot media for System370 and MVS. The desktop computer I was running the emulator on (a Gateway, showing my age), was more powerful than the original mainframe hardware.