NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you
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jayrebb
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I remember getting chin-checked at the counter by the guy ringing up the Rog Strix 4090 for 1,999 saying it was overpriced. If he only knew...
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RAM was just tip of the iceberg. Mainstream GPU is going to be dead, NVME storage has already gone up almost 3x, next up are consumer CPUs as everyone vies for fab contracts. Highest bidders only. Easy to imagine the PC market will be ultra low end and ultra high end in the not too distant future.
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Rumors continue that Nvidia is, at best, pausing production on the lower end 16GB cards
There's additional rumors out there that even at the 8GB level, it'll just be 5060TIs soon.
(Again, Nvidia doesn't make their own chips, if component costs go through the roof, there's only so much they can do, like limiting the memory cost inflicted to just the highest base cost version. Third parties are even more fucked, as apparently they only netted ~$50 profit per board, meaning memory increases render those cards literally unsellable at a profit for them.)
In terms of CES, the consensus is that at earliest, the next gen cards won't be available until Q3 of 2027, _if_ memory orders have settled by then.
I actually talked my nephew out of buying a high end video card over the summer until the 5XXX Supers came out. Thank god the stop gap 9060XT I bought him to tide him over was the 16GB version.
Edit: I forgot, there are a ton of rumors that Nvidia is reintroducing the five year old 3060 as their defacto new low end card. Let me reiterate that the future sucks.
There's additional rumors out there that even at the 8GB level, it'll just be 5060TIs soon.
(Again, Nvidia doesn't make their own chips, if component costs go through the roof, there's only so much they can do, like limiting the memory cost inflicted to just the highest base cost version. Third parties are even more fucked, as apparently they only netted ~$50 profit per board, meaning memory increases render those cards literally unsellable at a profit for them.)
In terms of CES, the consensus is that at earliest, the next gen cards won't be available until Q3 of 2027, _if_ memory orders have settled by then.
I actually talked my nephew out of buying a high end video card over the summer until the 5XXX Supers came out. Thank god the stop gap 9060XT I bought him to tide him over was the 16GB version.
Edit: I forgot, there are a ton of rumors that Nvidia is reintroducing the five year old 3060 as their defacto new low end card. Let me reiterate that the future sucks.
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I don't game much the last couple years, but I'm also still running a 1070 / Ryzen 5 1600. I thought it had died but didn't deal with it because parent life. Anyway, thought I'd see what was up around Christmas and it booted right up, no issues since. Part of me wants to upgrade to avoid even shittier prices in the event the GPU or something else dies, but I probably game 10 hours a month or so.