system
A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Even if I'd gone with a 900 series card in 2015, a 970, I'd be facing a similar issue. An even longer timespan between upgrades and only getting maybe a 3x performance increase for my dollar.
gpt
As I've said, we hit a plateau in performance growth. There is a huge chance, that unless RT starts booming, people on 1080tis will be playing in 1440p with high-ish framerates on mid/High settings for this whole console generation

Edit: don't get me wrong, I'm not excusing corporate greed, it's just the fact we are not achieving as good performance growths as in the past

We should be getting cheaper gpus, or way more powerful for the same price, but we aren't, I'm sad, but I've accepted that I'm never going to be able to afford new high-midrange stuff and will just get used flagship 2-3 years after after release every 5-6 years