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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards
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The thing is, Covid 19 will not be felt equally. The people with stack of disposable who would have bought a £1200 GPU, will still have stacks of disposable and will buy a £1500 GPU. No sweat.
You will have the odd fool who will bankrupt themselves on a 600% APR to buy the latest and greatest, but yeah, what can you do about him?
The people whom Covid 19 will most impact will be those buying the mainstream and mid-range cards.
I suspect these too will remain as expensive if not increase in price, just because nV don't give a flying toss, and why not?
So yeah, I'm still expecting the 3070 to be £500+ (possibly £550), and nV not to care about Covid 19 in the slightest.
As a business owner once told me: "It's much easier to start with high prices and lower them, than it is to start with low prices and raise them."
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Well I know no one who will spend £500 on a GPU to play computer games, and most of them can wait for prices to drop. In the end there are better things for me to spend money on,so if people want to throw money at them like loot crates in games,or funding Twitch streamers more fool them! This is a hobby but not a drug addiction!The thing is, Covid 19 will not be felt equally. The people with stack of disposable who would have bought a £1200 GPU, will still have stacks of disposable and will buy a £1500 GPU. No sweat.
You will have the odd fool who will bankrupt themselves on a 600% APR to buy the latest and greatest, but yeah, what can you do about him?
The people whom Covid 19 will most impact will be those buying the mainstream and mid-range cards.
I suspect these too will remain as expensive if not increase in price, just because nV don't give a flying toss, and why not?
So yeah, I'm still expecting the 3070 to be £500+ (possibly £550), and nV not to care about Covid 19 in the slightest.
As a business owner once told me: "It's much easier to start with high prices and lower them, than it is to start with low prices and raise them."
For me, and most people I imagine (not most people on this forum), if prices are too high I won't buy new. I'll keep my 780ti or buy a second hand card. What this means for me is I will play some slightly older games so I won't be buying new games either. Last game I bought new was GTA5. It's not a matter of have I got the money, but can I justify it? Can I justify paying 2k for a whole PC that will last 3 years? Probably not. Can I justify paying 2k for a PC to last me 6 years? Yes I can. (assumes 1.5k PC and upgrade GPU once).
If you think the last generation's price/performance was acceptable, I can see how you would think that. However the 2080ti didn't offer enough of a performance increase to even remotely justify the price increase over the 1080 Ti.
So while Nvidia's effort to move the goal posts has worked with some people, I'm not convinced that 2080ti performance was ever worth what Nvida charged.
What monitor. Just watching Spurs vs Newcastle on BT Sports Ultimate in 4K and the step up over the 4K LED I had previously is astounding. Been playing things with GSync this past week too and gaming has never looked better either.
If anyone is sitting on the fence about buying OLED, get off the fence and go buy one.
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That is literally one of the cleverest and funniest things I've seen this year, thank you for that
How the hell do they go about making these and making them look real, just goes to show what kind of fakes could be making news.
Near sure this was already posted but it's impressive how well made it is.
Hahaha, that's hilarious and so well made.
How the hell do they go about making these and making them look real, just goes to show what kind of fakes could be making news.
Near sure this was already posted but it's impressive how well made it is.
Smacking it with screwdriver creased me up.
That's straight into the HOF with the Nvidia engineer, the AMD noise test and the AMD train wreck.
Btw, now we know what @Kaapstad looks like
I remember watching that and took it as real to start with until he started hitting it with the screwdriver. Proper tickled me and very well done.
How the hell do they go about making these and making them look real, just goes to show what kind of fakes could be making news.
Near sure this was already posted but it's impressive how well made it is.
Also, I must be getting old or summit, as I genuinely have zero interest in the next gen this time. Bring on Cyberpunk and hopefully I get going again.
I know the feeling.
Agree what a few of you have said. The only reason the 2080ti was so expensive, is because there was nothing there to challenge it with similar tech.
If Nvidia price it's upcoming flag similar to the current gen ti, they'll probably be in trouble with AMD's upcoming range. With how they've hammered intel recently i wouldn't be surprised if they start to close the gap with Nvidia, that's if AMD don't gouge out.
If Nvidia price it's upcoming flag similar to the current gen ti, they'll probably be in trouble with AMD's upcoming range. With how they've hammered intel recently i wouldn't be surprised if they start to close the gap with Nvidia, that's if AMD don't gouge out.
Err no I certainly didn't say that at all.
IMO it was more down to them babbling on for hours about ray tracing being the "Holy grail" of graphics, they are right in one sense but we're still a way off photo-realism in gaming which is the real holy grail, ray tracing is a small component of that.
2080Ti + 50% will bring you back to life