Apart from GTX1080 and Titan, how are entry-level graphics cards doing recently?
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Next-generation games are released every year, and 3A masterpieces are released from time to time, which have washed the brains of gamers over and over again. In the pursuit of the pace of game masterpieces, if you don't have a graphics card with a four-digit price, you will be embarrassed to say hello to your peers. Perhaps the high frequency of game masterpieces has made us accustomed to only paying attention to all aspects of next-generation graphics cards, resulting in the once popular entry-level graphics cards being ignored by everyone. Entry-level graphics cards, are you okay? Once forced by the times to become IQ test cards? TNT, MX440, HD9550... Entry-level graphics cards were booming in that DIY sunrise period. After all, 2D games still occupied a certain market at that time, and 3D games were still retained in CS, WAR3 and even subsequent RO and WOW online games. An entry-level graphics card can also bring a lot of happiness. However, after 3D dominated the game market, the war of picture quality has never died down, which has led to the graphics cards directly linked to 3D picture quality to move towards the high-end. No one likes to watch PPT in 3D games, and no one likes to watch abstract movies in low quality. Due to the positioning, the entry-level graphics cards that have undergone castration surgery cannot keep up with the development trend of contemporary 3D games. The entry-level graphics cards that have been ruthlessly abandoned by the game market naturally have no practical living space. Not only that, under the planning of CPU giants, the trend of integrating GPU performance to speed up has emerged since 2011. Intel began to "not do its job" and focus on the development of core graphics cards since Sandy Bridge, and it will reach its peak in the Broadwell generation, with built-in Iris high-performance core graphics, and its performance will beat entry-level graphics cards in seconds - but no one cares. Not to mention AMD, which has the foundation of acquiring ATI, and at the same time, the high-end CPU market has suffered a Waterloo since 2011, so it focuses on the development of the APU market that integrates GPUs. Later, everyone knows that until 2017, AMD has been supporting the facade with mid-to-low-end CPUs mainly based on APUs. Under internal and external pressure, entry-level graphics cards seem to be neither high nor low. The positioning relationship makes it tasteless when facing contemporary 3D games, and at the same time, facing the CPU with a free GPU performance that can reach the level of entry-level graphics cards, it seems to have no installation value. NVIDIA simply stopped playing with entry-level graphics cards. As for AMD, which already has the APU market, in order to avoid overlap, it gradually showed a "half-abandoned" attitude towards entry-level graphics cards. NVIDIA's GT240 and AMD's HD5500 are believed to be the last batch of relatively well-known entry-level graphics cards. After this batch of graphics cards, it is estimated that everyone has not known much about the situation of the entry-level graphics card market. In order to update the products on paper first, manufacturers have played the strategy of vests in entry-level graphics cards. The most classic one is the GT730 graphics card of that year. One model can actually be covered with three different vests, including one Fermi and two Kepler, which is really eye-opening. For several years, manufacturers have simply been too lazy to update their product lines. Opening the product page of the GPU manufacturer, it is still the GT730 and GT710 from N years ago. It is conceivable that the embarrassing situation of entry-level graphics cards now. It can be seen that entry-level graphics cards are no longer the main force of manufacturers' shipments. Although they are very cheap, they will not enter the eyes of players who need to replace hardware. Their main function at present is more to "turn on the computer". Existence is reasonable! Although the update is slow, there are always some new products on the shelves at the entry level . However, in 2017, the entry-level graphics card market may get good news. That is, AMD and NVIDIA will update this product line that has long been covered with spider webs. After all, entry-level graphics cards have brought them countless brilliant achievements, and they still remember the well diggers when they drink water. In April, AMD officially released the new generation of RX 500 series graphics cards, including RX550, which uses a new core Polaris 12. This is also the first time that the Polaris architecture has been introduced to the entry-level market. The RX550 has 10 built-in computing units, that is, 640 stream processors-256 less than the RX 460. Of course, the price is definitely much cheaper than the current Radeon RX 460, estimated to be 499-599 yuan. Let's take a look at NVIDIA, which has always been updating powerfully. It is about to release the most entry-level model of the 10-series Pascal, named GTX1030. Yes, you read it right, it belongs to the "GTX" series, and it is a new model using the Pascal architecture. After all, it is the golden sign of GTX, and what NVIDIA brings may not be a pitfall. The specific specifications are unknown, but it is certain that it uses the Pascal architecture and bids farewell to the previous vests. Reliable news has been received from well-known graphics card manufacturers: 30W power consumption (an absolute low-power artifact, so low that it can be made fanless) has about the performance level of 750Ti. GTX 1030 will be officially released around mid-May, and the price is expected to be 499-599 yuan. It is not a problem to replace the official GT700 series and the GTX750Ti series that has been relegated to the entry level. It is better to be late than never. The two major GPU manufacturers finally updated the entry-level graphics card product line in 2017, and finally it is not a vest, but to keep up with the trend of the times and adopt the mainstream architecture, which always surprises people. However, it is inevitable that the specifications will be drastically cut. At the same time, the prices are also maintained at the level of 499 to 599 yuan. It can be seen that the previous entry-level graphics cards were priced at 299-399, and now the price threshold of entry-level graphics cards has been raised, and 499 to 599 yuan are considered entry-level. The overall performance is still a little higher than the current level of the core graphics card (this is valuable), this is the positioning and pursuit of this type of entry-level graphics card. In general, entry-level graphics cards will not disappear immediately! To adapt to the times, the pace of updates will be slowed down, and the performance will be a little more powerful than the core graphics card, and entry-level graphics cards still have value. However, the demand for entry-level graphics cards is always not as large as the mainstream, and the profits are also incomparable, so how many manufacturers will follow up with the new generation of entry-level graphics cards? In an era that focuses on brand building, graphics card manufacturers launch this product, on the one hand, they can't make a lot of money, and on the other hand, it is not beneficial to brand building. Graphics card manufacturers are more like voluntary labor porters. As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity. |
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