alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 hours agoWhy I [Monica J. White from howtogeek] am actively recommending Intel's 12GB Battlemage GPU over the RTX 5060www.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkWhy I [Monica J. White from howtogeek] am actively recommending Intel's 12GB Battlemage GPU over the RTX 5060www.howtogeek.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 hours agomessage-square1fedilink
minus-squaretidderuuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-23 hours agoThat’s great for a budget build or if you are sticking to medium settings in a 1080p game with most advanced graphics features turned off. But how the hell could anyone recommend it over an RTX 5060? And just because you have more vram doesn’t mean a straight line to better performance. There are far more factors involved. No offense to the author but it kind of felt like they were paid, asked to do a puff piece or being blatantly ignorant around reality. FYI, I’m not an expert on graphics cards or journalism so take my comment for what it’s worth. I just game and have for a long time.
That’s great for a budget build or if you are sticking to medium settings in a 1080p game with most advanced graphics features turned off.
But how the hell could anyone recommend it over an RTX 5060?
And just because you have more vram doesn’t mean a straight line to better performance. There are far more factors involved.
No offense to the author but it kind of felt like they were paid, asked to do a puff piece or being blatantly ignorant around reality.
FYI, I’m not an expert on graphics cards or journalism so take my comment for what it’s worth. I just game and have for a long time.