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@snacks Pushing market demand even higher for the lower end cards to match the performance of the 5090. I suspect it is just another JensenWay™ of creating another price standard for lower end GPUs.
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Cool ass Tyler
tyler@nicecrew.digital
All my niggas are law of diminishing marginal utility pilled
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lain
lain@lain.com
@snacks a 5090 is not some pie-in-the-sky gilded, virgin plucked, pure-signaling gpu. it's a normal fast gpu. everyone wants fast gpus some now, and some are for both gaming and AI and some are AI only. they take the one thing away that's right at the border and push it purely towards AI use. that should make the average GPU in the gaming sphere more expensive. that seems logical to me.
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Cool ass Tyler
tyler@nicecrew.digital
Yeah it's fast but for most compute and gaming purposes anything 4070 super and above is perfectly reasonable, and if you want more vram for ai tasks then get a gb10 or the amd equivalent or a mac studio
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@snacks @lain It it also still cheaper to buy multiple 5080 than the $16K RTX 6000. A 5090 was a middle ground between the two brackets, and that bracket is now gone so people that wanted to use a 5090 for workstations, like video editing or home ML stuff now buy (and will buy even more) lower class GPUs.
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Phantasm
phnt@fluffytail.org
@snacks @lain There is demand for RTX 6000s and they can have higher margin on them (already very likely do, since they are 1st party only), so stopping production of 5090s, turning them into 6000s instead and selling them at higher price is pure capitalism at display. And as a bonus you can push prices higher in the lower due to the market void left by stopping the production where there is no direct replacement (from AMD). The 6000 having more memory is only a part of this. Now when someone wants a workstation card, they can say "buy RTX 6000, or if you are too poor buy multiple of lower end ones". Increasing demand for both brackets (some will spend more on the 6000, some will be satisfied with lower performance and spend more anyway).
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@phnt @lain if nvidia was actually selling a good chunk of their workstation does as gaming gous, to the point it was a sizable portion of the market, that would'e been kinda whack i think.
At this point i wouldn't be surprised if everyone's just trying to squeeze more margin any time there's bad news
At this point i wouldn't be surprised if everyone's just trying to squeeze more margin any time there's bad news
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