Ultra til 2030, how likely?

[xynerial]

If I bought a GTX 1060 6gb or RX 480 8GB today, would it be able to play games on Ultra in 2030, or atleast the min to be 2021 but focusing on 2030, at 1080p resolution in 2030? why do I ask this? I ask this because according to techspot:

http://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page2.html

A Radeon HD 7950, below 7970, can play BF1 on ultra at near 53FPS, a GPU released in 2012? According to these forecast and projection, it only make sense current 1060/480, with folds in power increase, can play games on ULTRA@1080p@60FPS in 2030+???

 

[Willdobbo]

You have to think though by 2030 1080p will probably not be the go to resolution By that time 4k will probably be much more affordable and tech will have moved on

 

[RCFProd]

You are asking if ~250 dollar GPU's from 2016 can max games at ultra settings in 2030? 14 years later?

WHAT?

 

[juanrdp]

If I bought a GTX 1060 6gb or RX 480 8GB today, would it be able to play games on Ultra in 2030, or atleast the min to be 2021 but focusing on 2030, at 1080p resolution in 2030?

I seriously doubt that with a RX480 or a 1060 you could play games at 1080/Ultra the next year (games like Start Citizen) not to talk the 2021.

The 2030? 13 years playing at ultra with the same card?, it's just a joke.

Just try to play Battefielf 1 with a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 (a 13 years old card) with the onboard 128 Mb of Ram...

 

[BFG-9000]

Let's travel down memory lane back in time 14 years to revisit the fastest video card money could buy then, the $399 9700Pro ($532 in today's money). It could astonishingly play at 1024x768 with AA and AF turned on! --Which crippled the GeForce 4 Ti 4600's performance.

It was the first DX9 card and cannot run anything DX12. If history is any guide (and it's not), 2030 will see DX15.

It was AGP 4x but the first cards had serious compatibility issues with 1.5v so no AGP 8x for you. So let's say you are stuck with the fastest CPU of the time, the Pentium 4 3.06 with Hyperthreading. Let's even overclock it to 3.45GHz.

I ask you, can such a system play the latest games today with highest settings? Even at 1024x768? The reality is the 9700Pro started to struggle with FEAR, a game released in 2004.

If you want to ensure being able to play the latest game in Ultra in 2019 you really should be looking at the fastest card available which is a $1200 Titan, not a budget card.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

If I bought a GTX 1060 6gb or RX 480 8GB today, would it be able to play games on Ultra in 2030, or atleast the min to be 2021 but focusing on 2030, at 1080p resolution in 2030? why do I ask this? I ask this because according to techspot:

http://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page2.html

A Radeon HD 7950, below 7970, can play BF1 on ultra at near 53FPS, a GPU released in 2012? According to these forecast and projection, it only make sense current 1060/480, with folds in power increase, can play games on ULTRA@1080p@60FPS in 2030+???

simple answer.......NO! Don't believe everything you read, specially rubbish articles like that.

Juanrdp hit the nail on the head. Try using a 13 yr old GPU like the aforementioned TI 4600 (which was an awesome card in it's day - I know, as I had one.) It's just not gonna happen.

The GTX1060, RX480 are perfect for 1080p right now. You can run alot of games at Ultra at that res, now.......won't be the same even in 2 years. Future proofing is a fallacy.