When Your New Graphics Card Gets Destroyed By Grandpa

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When Your New Graphics Card Gets Destroyed By Grandpa

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The ultimate graphics card betrayal! A 6-year-old GTX 1070 Ti absolutely demolishing the newer RTX 3050 in an arm wrestling match is the hardware equivalent of your grandpa outrunning you in a marathon.

What makes this painfully accurate is that despite the RTX 3050 having ray tracing capabilities and being a newer generation, the ancient GTX 1070 Ti still outperforms it in raw power for many games and applications. Nvidia basically repackaged old tech, slapped "RTX" on it, and charged premium prices.

Budget gamers who upgraded from older cards to the 3050 must feel like they've been scammed harder than people who buy "gaming" chairs that are just regular chairs with RGB lights.

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