I kept my 980Ti for 6 years and I used it across multiple resolutions (1920x1080 and 5760x1080 - when a game properly supported it) and that meant as time went on I was adjusting down settings to keep decent frame rates, but it's not the graphics that keep me playing. I'm hoping my 3080Ti gives me a similar opportunity.
Not everyone is a graphics whore and needs try to max out every game when there is almost no difference between high and ultra settings.
If the GPU plays games to your expectation I would think you're not in the need to upgrade. Even with my 3080Ti I don't bother with DLSS (there is blurring from it that bugs me, regardless of what others might say about it) and I don't give a rat's ass about RT so I never enable it.
I play games I enjoy. I'm not a big AAA gamer because I think most of the suck or are such a poor state when they're released that I won't touch them for a couple of years after they've released.....there are exceptions, there are games that have been out a couple of years that are still in shit condition that I will never get (I'm looking at you Dying Light 2).
If you're on the boards looking for validation on if you should get a new GPU from strangers, you probably don't really need one. You're not missing out on things, no matter what Nvidia or AMD try to tell you with their software that downscales and then upscales and RT is handled so poorly by both sides that the only competition they can do between each other with it is to try and be the one that does it slightly less crappy than the other.
In all honesty, I've been having fun going back and playing older games over the new junk that's been coming out. Check out the list of games I've been playing lately:
- The Saboteur
- Soldier Of Fortune
- Call of Duty 2
- Advent Rising
- Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
- Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
- Rise of the Argonauts
- Boiling Point: Road to Hell
- Diablo II (not the updated Resurrected one)
- I'm currently playing Company of Heroes and also Fable: The Lost Chapters
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