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FIVE’S ALIVE

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RDNA 4 is unlikely to go toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s high-end cards, targeting the midrange instead.

Buying a graphics card feels increasingly like closing on a house or starting a small business. It was once as simple as saving up about 400 bucks, triple-checking which slots your mobo supported, and then buying the big box with the fanciest-looking fantasy character on it. The more fireballs and face paint, the better the graphics card within.

However, crypto farmers, lockdowns and egregious manufacturer price-hiking have made that purchase considerably more complexnow chugging along a bit. It doesn’t support DLSS frame generation. It never really got on with . It takes a deep breath whenever I hover over a ‘max’ preset in a graphics settings menu.

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