| Cyran said: Maybe things will calm down later in the year with prices but I decided $2400 and October 1st my cut off cost/date. If I can get a 5090 for $2400 or less by October 1st I will but if not I just stick with my 3090 and hope 60 series is less of a diester or AMD pull off some miracle and UDNA can compete with a xx90 Nvidia card. |
You say this and I've been sitting here for like 4 GPU gens now, waiting for prices to be affordable, to what I originally paid a 1080ti for...
It's never going to calm down. Ever since Covid, and the mixture of mining/scaling, things have only gotten worse in terms of market cost and availability. Back during late 2016/mid 2017, I had like the biggest choice of selection for different variations of the 1080ti, ranging from £700-1000 prices. Fast forward to today and it's just £900 and beyond, and that's not even for the 80 series, this is literally happening to the 70 series, the 80 series and 90 are just way too high than regular MSRP, it's batshit insane.
The thing is, Jensen ain't dumb. I watched his keynote, he knew exactly what he was doing when he mentions asinine sounding slogans like "the more you buy, the more you save", and "5070 with the power of a 4090", because tech bros and scalpers eat that shit up so easily and readily, that they then go out and proceed to fuck with the market, and Nvidia knows they can just limit the supply chain on purpose, while letting scalpers/tech bros vacuum up what's there on the table, thus creating artificial demand, and also proceeding to fuck over general customers like me from even being able to either get one, let alone afford one.
We're now at that point where Nvidia/Jensen simply don't care. They'll focus the data centers like royalty, whilst we the general customers for gaming/arts/media will simply have to content with the scalpers and tech bros, both of which don't really contribute anything positive to the cycle and instead just make shit harder to purchase, but to Nvidia the latter two look no different to the company, because anyone who buys their GPU's ends up giving the same cash at the end of the day (besides maybe scalpers, but I've yet to see Nvidia care as much as to get police/FBI involved, and barely any company bothers to go that far).
I've just decided to give up for the time being and just focus on what I still have for a machine. My days of being able to look around me and rub my hands at the choices I can pick from are long gone, and I just have to accept that reality.
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