If you see someone hacking AI vendors or their suppliers: No you don’t.
Everything’s just a speculation object now.
I want to get off Mr bones wild ride!
Even on release the 5090 cost more than my whole PC… and my PC literally had the highest end version of every other consumer grade component and a 9070XT (so highest end non-nvidia GPU). Point is it was always overpriced, a single component should not cost more than an entire rig.
So AAA gaming is basically dead, right? There might be a few gamers with current systems that they bought before all of this and some rich guys, but the majority will not pay those sums to play games. And that means that it will be economically insane to target a small group of gamers with a multimillion dollar budget
You don’t need a 5090, 5080, or even an NVIDIA to run games with very detailed graphics.
This means AAA game developers will need to actually sit back and optimise their games, rather than keep producing badly written code and bloated graphics.
What’s going to be down is the consumer segment at NVIDIA, because it’s not making them the money they’d like it to. Last time I read, the consumer segment was far below 5% of their income.
Just saw one on Amazon for 11,500 USD
At least game studios will optimize for lower-end hardware
My ~£700 4070ti s purchase from a couple years ago doesn’t feel so insane anymore. Glad I didn’t wait. Especially when the 32gb of ram was about 100.
I already miss the good old days. Back when RAM was affordable.
What are computer adjacent hobbies that don‘t need a computer? Reading? Guess I will be reading lots of fiction soon. That is unless the government closes libraries in their cost cutting spree after making generous gifts to corporations who probably invested it all in AI. Oh well.
You could tinker with microcontrollers. They’re pretty capable when it comes to building smaller iot devices. Or pick up a used mini pc and start self hosting 😉
This is just stupid. Its encroaching on the price of half a car. I mean i love games but that is actually insane. They arent expectng to sell any of those cards right?
It’s the price of 5 reasonable used cars where I live.
I’d hazard that people buying those cards at that price aren’t buying them for gaming, they’re using them to run local AI models
But you can buy a ton of online AI access for that kind of money.
I know, I know, privacy and offline availability and all that, but sometimes you gotta weigh the pros and cons.
yeah that makes a ton more sense. Still an insane amount to spend on a graphics card, something in my brain breaks a little
it’s out of reach for us, but for some companies this might end up being cheaper than buying AI from american monopolists
My 1660 super is going to be doing the heavy lifting for another decade…
I read it as it’s 1,830 euros and thought: damn, that’s expensive
Yes, anyone trying to run local LLM niw, let alone game, is way behind.
I’m really concerned that the future is subscriptions because high end hardware is rare for plebs
It’s because you actually believe the scalpers, the megacorps and the pundits. What if chips that can render graphics where abundant and these were all trying to make money? Because that’s what they are and scarcity is good for all of them strategically. As usual it’s not going to last forever, all scams have a half-life
€7.7k, holy fuck
I bought an RX 6650 XT some years ago, fully intending it to be a cheap temporary card until I could afford something high-end…
I don’t know if I should be upset I didn’t just buy a more expensive card, or happy I’m no longer stuck with a 970. Regardless of how I feel, I’m going to be using this thing for the next decade at this rate.
I feel your pain, I’m using a 3060 rog strix 12gb card. It does everything that I want I to, but I’m biting my nails over how it’ll cope with AAA titles over the next 12+ months, at 1440p settings.
970 gang still going strong here
Cries in Intel 620
Does that even play YouTube? Shiiiiieeeeeettt
“Strong” is maybe not the word I’d choose but it’s still going.
Idgaf, I have a 970 in a drawer and I’m not afraid to use it.
