So you think this is a good card for someone to get now?
Do you think people would enjoy playing Red Dead Redemption 2 with this GPU?
I was pointing out the size of the INSTALLED BASE. If someone releases a game that won't play on 95% of the INSTALLED BASE of gaming PCs, be my guest, but they will be first to go bankrupt, after no-one can play their game upon release.
Edit: And to answer your questions, NO, I don't think that a GTX 1050 ti 4GB card is a good card to get TODAY, for a real ENTHUSIAST-level gaming PC. But not everybody has gear of that level. Some are a lot more mundane. My good buddy, whom I built him a $400 gaming PC like 3 years ago, was made out of a refurbished Sandy Bridge quad-core Dell MT, and has a GTX 1050 2GB installed, which he claims the fans are now acting up on. So I was going to get him a GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6 to replace it. Is that card enough to actually "Enjoy" RDR II? I don't know. It depends on the person, I guess. He mostly plays older Blizzard games, and Fortnite, and Minecraft.
(I did also offer him recently to throw together a Ryzen R5 3600 CPU, 32GB of GSkill DDR4-3200, the GTX 1650 D6, a 256GB NVMe, 2TB HDD, case, 80Plus Gold PSU, for somewhere between $800 and $1000. I told him $25/wk, get the whole thing paid off in like 8 months.)
I doubt I could, but that has absolutely nothing to do with anything I have said in this thread.
Sure it does, if you claim that 95% of gaming PCs will have PCI-E 4.0 NVMe SSDs, then that means that the INSTALLED BASE in 2024, needs to start building TODAY, and if there are NO pre-built PCs with NVMe PCI-E 4.0 SSDs in them being sold, how can you build that sizable of an INSTALLED BASE by 2024?
Surely, you realize, that the few of us, on a forum like this, that build our own PCs, and use state-of-the-art stuff like PCI-E 4.0 CPUs, mobos, and NVMe SSDs (and GPUs), are really, the cream of the crop of builders, and entirely outside of the mainstream INSTALLED BASE.
Sure, your average AT'er might have a PCI-E 4.0 NVMe SSD by 2024, but ... even 95% of AT'ers, are like 1% or less of the INSTALLED BASE of gaming PCs worldwide.