JEMC said:
I think you should ask for a refund for that faulty hat. They're not making secret deals to keep their status quo. They didn't do it in the past and they won't do it now because there's little to gain and a lot to lose. Also, we don't know if or to what extend will crypto f*ck with the demand of the new GPUs, like it did with the current ones, and that means that neither AMD nor Nvidia will know how well will their cards sell until they're up for preorder, and at that point it's too late to make any changes. Besides, both would love to brag about having the best card. Also, we shouldn't really give rumors so much importance. Can the 4080 be powered by the AD103? Maybe, or maybe not. Maybe it's like you said and the chip is too expensive to launch it in a card for less than, say $1,000, and Nvidia has been forced to scrap that in favor of the lower model. Just like maybe AMD has lowered the specs of its chips, or maybe the first ones were never really the target, but the configuration of the theoretical max. cores they could have that AMD never intented to achieve, because they took into account defects and other factors... like leaving room later in the gen when yields would be better to launch more powerful cards with more cores enabled. As I said yesterday, we shouldn't really give these rumors that much credibility until we're close to their reveal. |
Yea I am not giving them too much credibility but we have seen duopolies plenty of times in various industries. I do agree that it's a massive stretch.
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