GPUs are still overpriced too
Because the fuckers realised they can just keep them priced like this and people will still buy them
They literally don’t care if people buy them or not. Overwhelmingly profit is in the server and enterprise areas now.
Some people will still buy at those high prices and they are more than happy to stick with that small slice.
Exactly. Whatever they sell at those prices is good. They just don’t care about people who cannot shell out thousands for a gpu.
I know it’s fundamentally the same kind of calculation but I really hope someone can build some hardware that’s good at graphics but bad at crypto/ai/whatever.
We just need the AI bubble to burst
Another reason to look forward to the AI bubble popping.
Even assuming it does, it won’t be for a good while before it comes through to GPU prices.
Oh for sure. But seeing NVidia’s share prices collapse will be soothing in other ways.
You don’t get to be worth 5 trillion dollars by giving out discounts…
Yeah sadly. Then sell out to big corpos doing AI and neglect the original audience for your products.
Quite the contrary! They effectively sell their cards at a ~20% discount to a bunch of AI companies by “investing” in the companies for a promise to use that money to buy their cards.
It’s as dumb as it sounds and textbook unsustainable economic bubble behavior, but NVidia don’t care because more sales = more stonks = more money to “invest” = more sales = more stonks = more yachts for Jensen. So what if it makes 1929 look like a walk in the park, it’s not their problem.
The relationship between supply, demand, and price has been fundamentally damaged.
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Always has been.
It always has been. It’s just worse now. The haves have always had all the power in a “free market” system.
Why doesn’t a 4090 cost $1,000,000?
It doesn’t need to. It’s already unaffordable.
Doesn’t “need” to? What does that even mean?
If the manufacturer had all the power in the relationship, the product would cost even more.
Hopefully motivates game developers to optimize their softwHAHAHA oh gods I can’t say that with a straight face
RT has been a plague. The cope going from “4K native 144Hz only bro, potato consoles just can’t keep up” to “just use DLSS to bullshit as many pixels as possible” has been unreal.
It is rather expensive for high end hardware these days. Might get brotato, low requirements and local coop. Just got a couple of controllers so looking for good local coop games, especially good if they are cheap indie games.
I saw a random AI video where guy said to use this model you need 39gb of vram. Like wtf are these ppl running at home?
No wonder Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company.
I put (regular RAM) 64gb on my home pc, because that was the max my board would take. My old Mac Pro, 96gb because it was the most it could run at max speed, total could have been 128. Both only for 8gb gfx cards. Both because, I might want to open 400 tabs on a browser or something, maybe casual gaming, lol
I paid a new 4TB seagate 99€ in 2022, now it’s 139€.
Prices used to go down 😐
I’m old enough to remember the hard drive shortages.
Capacitor plague staring for me. So many replaced power supplies.
Oh that was a nightmare. And you didn’t even know if the new ones you were getting were actually better.
Meanwhile, I’m having a blast on retro and 2D indie games that play just fine on my secondhand $200 Thinkpad with integrated graphics.
If you’re on Windows, the new O&O ShutUp gives you the option to delete Copilot.
The one downvote is Microsoft
Could be.
I have a fan that auto-downvotes all my posts. I’m not sure who it is, but probably someone on my block list.
Lmao that’s the best name for him
#1 fan
More like -1 fan
Whoever it is, I appreciate them. :)
People are still mining with GPUs? I’m kinda surprised that’s still profitable
And tariffs!
And there was the HDD shortage, the CPU shortage, and I’m sure we’ll see some variant repeat of any of them again.
Water and electricity. Those are gonna be the fun ones.
That would be a dystopia ngl.
whats next, motherboard shortage?
Floppy Disk Drive shortage
Someone is too young or forgot the 2016 DRAM price fixing by Samsung, Hynix, and Micron, causing prices to skyrocket. Prices doubled or even tripled until 2018.
I’m so thankful that I didn’t buy into the 3000 series hype and just bought a 2060 Super the moment one became available at MSRP after the 3000s launched. Everyone said it was a waste paying that price for less performance, but I had a card and they still didn’t 4 months later.
I’d say that the way around the shortages is to just not go for the latest and greatest new hardware, but that’s not really helpful for GPUs anymore anyway. Even the desirable last gen cards are still going for scalper prices.
The 3090 is currently the best price/performance for AI.
If I build a rig with a 3090 running Debian will stuff like ollama be able to take advantage of it? Thinking up building a new system for my containers and getting into that.
Yes! I do this with a 3060 and Debian.
Yes. I’m not using Debian, but I am doing basically that.
Probably. On arch, you install ollama and ollama-cuda and you’re good to go.
3000 series is fantastic, however it was during Covid so prices were way out of whack. I somehow lucked out and got a 3080 for msrp and it is still doing great in 1440 max settings for most games at +144fps . I did have to go to mid settings on BF6 to keep it at 144mhz, but still haven’t needed to turn frame gen on.
Is there a place I can sell my old ram sticks that are perfectly fine? I just upgraded.
Ebay?
I’m in the same boat and considering this.
eBay…
Was looking at upgrading to am5 but wow ddr5 is so expensive and thanks to ai I doubt that’s going to change any time soon.
Since, I mostly play relatively older games, I will stick to my ROG Ally X with Bazzite OS.
