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Especially for such slim margins of improvement over the 4000 series.
I’d be questioning the sanity of a gamer that needs to buy something from every generation of card released(I don’t understand buying a phone yearly either). If they use it to turn a profit and gaming is a convenient side benefit then fine. That or they just have larger than average discretionary funds.
I went from a Titan X(2015) to a 3080(2020). It’s 2025 now and the 3080 is still doing just fine. I upgrade when something I want to play doesn’t perform well…I’m not there yet.
My desktop is still running a 1060, I got it when the 3000 series had just dropped. I've got my pal's old OCd 1080 sitting on the sidelines waiting for me to get all the bits for water-cooling put together. The 1060 runs everything I've thrown at it. It might not run new new things at photorealistic quality, but stable frames and good enough quality that it doesn't look like shit. Once I've got a loop put together for the 1080 the 1060 is going into my media server to take over transcoding from the 970 I had before the 1060.
With a traditional phone plan, you're paying for a new phone every year so you may as well take them up on it.