Hardware

I'm honestly not interested in anything that's over 7800xt in raster performance, that's incapable of keeping up with Nvidia RT performance at that price range.

I can't justify either the 7900xtx series with 4070 RT performance or the 4070ti with only 12 GB. Although, I still don't believe VRAM requirements are increasing at the rate people believe.

We're almost at a point where going up in texture resolution is is pointless, unless you have a 4k screen where you notice it. Geometry detail count is also stagnating, because UE5's nanite, and Mesh shaders kind of take us to the limit of what we need. If medium textures in 5 years looks like Ultra textures do now, I think most people would be fine playing at medium textures. In 2014, at the last console launch, that would not have been so easy to say.