Let me state up front that this is conjecture upon my part. Do I think that it will last five years though? No. I think that we'll see an exponential increase in what games demand over the next few years. It also depends what you want though in terms of settings and fps and what you're playing. The hardest game currently on the gpu is probably RDR2. At 2K ultra the 2080ti drops to the low 40s (high 30s in Saint Denis) at 2K and that's without RT. Now, right now that's an outlier. In three years from now though, who knows. Game engines will likely be progressing with the new consoles I feel, but we'll see. I'm in no way trying to disuade anyone from their purchase and will possibly be getting a 3080 myself. At the end of the day it's a bloody good card whichever way you cut it. Five years is a long time in gaming though.
Why didn't you post this originally instead of a shitty little Doubt It?
Anywho. I don't mean future proof as in my PC will be top of the line for years to come. Like the four year old card in it now, I am sure in several years I'll be ekeing out performance and running games at acceptable to good levels.
This card is clearly going to bridge the gap for systems like mine, whose current bottleneck is the GPU (I upgraded the CPU last year).
No, it isn't possible to buy any one component that absolutely guarantees your machine is top of the line for years and years to come. I expect it to be amazing for two years, standard for two years, and then I'll probably be on a solid but creaking system.
Being able to play games in a few years is ,obviously, future proofing my system. (You seem to be conflating 'the future' with 'eternity').I actually think my current card is performing well, but the clock is running down now...
And just a note from inside the gaming industry, the amount of people out there with less than spectacular machines is huge. Sure, you'll get games that for-sure drive upgrades and have high requirements. That's a lot of money to leave on the table, and a new set of consoles will probably yet again stabilise a set of specs developers aim for.
I can't see this new GPU generation being a wrong move, in terms of upgrades. I actually think the next few years of cards will be iterative based on Ampere and Big Navi architecture.
Moving to the newest architecture standards is always future proofing your system. Sure there's a timelimit to that, but I didn't think that needed spelling out
