This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Let's face it, Nvidia doesn't care if you buy a gaming card or not right now. You can complain, but they can't hear you over their money counting machines.
Nvidia is only selling enough gaming cards to keep their market share from falling too low. All the rest of their silicon is allocated towards data center.
Enough stock to still be in the consumer market but just restrictive enough to encourage predatory pricing. Yay!
Idk man, as someone who waited for the 5000 series and then didn’t buy them (went with an older model), these articles make me pretty happy. Ngl
Pulled the trigger on a 4070TI SUPER at MSRP a year ago, thankful I passed on this bullshit instead of waiting for it
I hope AMD can take a significant market share from NVIDIA while NVIDIA is too busy counting money from the AI bubble
I agree with Steve from Gamer's Nexus - I think if AMD released the 9070 for $500 instead of matching the 5070 at $550, AMD's market share would probably double. As it is, we'll just have to see what the market thinks about $550.
I don't actually think that's true. Not because people wouldn't want it, but rather because yields are good enough that there won't actually be many 9070s (which is a cut down and lower clocked die).
That's fair. More 9070 XTs for me!
Surprise, surprise, generating artifical frames is creating fake fps. 🙄
It's even worse for Europe. Prices start at €800 (~$866), making any talk about 'MSRP-to-performance-ratio' absolutely pointless.
Even the 9070XT was launched recently and after 30ish minutes, minimum prices went from €695 to €924 (~$1,001) in my country.
Fuck the GPU market.
US isn't much better, since Trump thinks he's "making the economy strong" by further strengthening Chinese tariffs.
GPU market was cooked in 2020 when crypto and WFH demonstrated that people will pay literally anything to get the latest hardware. Best thing we can all do is vote with our wallets and vote for politicians who will do something about it, instead of making it worse.
I think best thing everyone can do is just keep using what you got.
There is got to be a limit on how much cash mega corps can spend on these ai chips
Also smells of artificial shortages IMHO
PS5 was dripping supply to keep hype until 2023 after supply shortages ended
As someone who preordered it, is CP2077 really a valid mechanism for performance testing?
Now? Yes, definitely. It's not at all the same game as it was at launch.
Not sure how smart it was, but I went to OriginPC and got a rig that included a 5090 (they didn't specify which specific model, so it could be Founders or some random overclock or who-knows-what).
I priced out the individual parts I selected and its about $1200 more than MSRP all told, but I opted for their best warranty, so if I assume that $500 of it was "I don't feel like building this from scratch, or sourcing the parts I'll never find, and possibly getting a dud, and having a half-built rig sitting in the corner for 3 years", and another $500 for "maybe I'll win the lottery and get a 5090 who's MSRP is $2500 instead of the $2000 for founder's", (and another $200 for tax and shipping), then I don't feel like a /total/ moron (feel free to correct me in the comments).
Case : Corsair 7000D Airflow (black) Processors : AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core 4.7GHz (up to 5.2GHz Max Boost) Motherboard : MSI X670E GAMING PLUS WIFI Memory : 64GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 (2x32GB) 6000MT/s System Cooling : CORSAIR iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX RGB AIO System Fans : Corsair iCUE LINK RX120 RGB Graphics Cards : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB Operating System : MS Windows 11 Pro (lol gonna mostly run Ubuntu on it) Operating System Drive : Corsair MP600 CORE XT 2TB Power Supply : CORSAIR AX1600i ATX Titanium Audio : Integrated High-Definition Audio (I may add something later, but on-board has been fine for me for years) Warranty and Support : 2 Year Part Replacement with Shipping and Lifetime Labor Included
~$6200
Also, I don't feel too bad about getting a 5090 over a 40xx because (I can't find anywhere for remotely close to MSRP, and) my current card is a 3080 in a laptop I've had for 4 years, and I'm hoping this new machine lasts 6-8.
