Stop. Buying. Nvidia.
Aren’t these the same cards that have been self destructing during driver updates?
Either devs are going to have to start finding ways to keep next gen games functioning properly on my 2080ti, or I’m going to have to find a different hobby if AMD follows suite. I will absolutely not be coming close to paying for anything on that scale.
2080 will play more than a lifetime supply of indie games. No need to continue supporting anti consumer AAA games
Or just move to a a console, the quality might not be the same, but it is way cheaper. This is one of the reasons people by consoles, they are cheaper and the games are optimized for it.
You can get very acceptable performance for fractions of the price of a scalped 5090.
I wasnt going to get one anyway, but now I really won’t buy one lol.
My current PC which at the time was a pretty much top of the line PC cost less than just that GPU. Ridiculous.
Yup, my last build was 2020 when 2000 series was still the top. 2070s is what I went with. Complete with 64 GB of RAM, 3800X, and other stuff (even a 500$ monitor) and I was only in around $2000 lol.
Eyyy, i just upgraded from a 3800x! 9800x3d is a solid improvement. Still using my 2080 TI tho (used display model from microcenter, for $800, in 2020)
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t see any improvement upgrading my proc. Graphics card would need to be next im sure.
Yeah, you can build a 1440p native/4k upscale build for like $1000 if not less. I don’t understand what the demand for these cards is. What games benefit?
My guess is that demand for high-end GPUs is more for AI stuff, which can always benefit from more horsepower.
But that extra 3FPS bro.
Shit mine was 1/3 of that haha
$3409 for some proprietary drivers on my PC? No thanks.
I mean, there’s such a limited volume rn, that they’re just going to get scalped for that price, so it probably doesn’t affect the end buyer’s price much anyways.
Still, not a great precedent.
I’ve always wondered why board partners didn’t just raise to scalper prices and take a $2200 profit per card sold.
And tbh, it’s Nvidia’s fault that the partners don’t have enough dies, I’d much rather a partner take the margin than an unnecessary middleman.
Pure greed. TSMC built tons of capacity since the pandemic, RAM makers have cut back production because of low prices.
There is tons of capacity out there to make more graphics cards, even including all the big data centers using them for AI. but i guess its more profitable to only sell cards to rich gamers and AI companies at inflated prices
Same thing with Taylor Swift tickets I guess? I’d imagine it’s because of negative backlash to charging so much. Instead of people being mad at the scalpers, they’d be mad at the retailers.
I’m personally kind of partial to the lottery method for right to buy, since it cuts down on scalpers.
“Nvidia to relase RTX 7090, get yours for only $23,000!”
You joke, but the pro version won’t be far. The Pro 4090 (aka the RTX 6000 ada)was already $7000 MSRP, and the pro 5090 is rumored to have far more VRAM.
My 1070 still plays Final Fantasy XIV just fine, so I think I keep my $3,400, thanks.
I’m the grim darkness of the future, you take out a mortgage to build a pc. Real glad i sprang for upgrades for my machine in December and January
And then you also need to take out insurance. But you can’t get any where you are due to climate change.
someone that works at a local bank was at the grocery store yesterday when we were there. back by the dairy and such. this was overheard:
“hey look, they got a loan officer for the eggs”
that seems like a lot, to play video games
Especially for such slim margins of improvement over the 4000 series.
I’d be questioning the sanity of a gamer that needs to buy something from every generation of card released(I don’t understand buying a phone yearly either). If they use it to turn a profit and gaming is a convenient side benefit then fine. That or they just have larger than average discretionary funds.
I went from a Titan X(2015) to a 3080(2020). It’s 2025 now and the 3080 is still doing just fine. I upgrade when something I want to play doesn’t perform well…I’m not there yet.
With a traditional phone plan, you’re paying for a new phone every year so you may as well take them up on it.
My desktop is still running a 1060, I got it when the 3000 series had just dropped. I’ve got my pal’s old OCd 1080 sitting on the sidelines waiting for me to get all the bits for water-cooling put together. The 1060 runs everything I’ve thrown at it. It might not run new new things at photorealistic quality, but stable frames and good enough quality that it doesn’t look like shit. Once I’ve got a loop put together for the 1080 the 1060 is going into my media server to take over transcoding from the 970 I had before the 1060.
