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£2.69999K for a 3090? WTF

robj20 said:
It really is making a console a no brainer.
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Its because consoles are sold at a loss, if they weren't this would be a different conversation - a desktop gpu is never sold at a loss and on average they sold with 60% profit across the value chain - where as literally consoles right now are sold at a loss, Sony and MS bleed cash from their books each time someone walks into a store and buys one

If consoles were priced like GPUs right now (cost+60%) the PS5 would have an rrp of $999 instead of $499 but the consoles are currently sold at cost-20%
 
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Grim5 said:
Its because consoles are sold at a loss, if they weren't this would be a different conversation - a desktop gpu is never sold at a loss and on average they sold with 60% profit across the value chain - where as literally consoles right now are sold at a loss, Sony and MS bleed cash from their books each time someone walks into a store and buys one

If consoles were priced like GPUs right now (cost+60%) the PS5 would have an rrp of $999 instead of $499 but the consoles are currently sold at cost-20%
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I never knew that ;). Lol

Regardless it's what the end customer pays.
I'll be sticking with my 1660 for the time being.
 
The Limited Edition version of the card is the one to get for LN2 benching. The one in the OP I think is the next tier down.
 
That is the current world champion in overclocking beating kingpin. I guess that is the reason why it is expensive, supposedly it is heavily binned for over clocking.

The current leading bench mark ranks are on this card. 3DMark, Cine Bench etc

Not really useful unless you are planning to on LN2 cooling and in to competitive overclocking
 
I totally agree that GPU have gone stupid. Im losing interest in the 30/6000 series.

A few years back, I paid £700'ish for a 1080ti (which I wasnt happy about), but atleast got a 80ti. When the 30 series came out, it looked like £650 for a 80 series - so no Ti, but the 3080 seem like a nice leap. Now prices increased have gone up, looking like a 3070 now for a similar price. Then 3070 doesnt seem much of an upgrade, not that its a bad card just a bad price.

To me the 3090 makes no sense at all, now hitting £2000!? you can buy a pretty good car for that. Now seeing this HOL card at £2.7k? who the heck buys that stuff? its barely faster than a reference 3080 with some extra memory and a SLI connector. I guess they only 30 cards worth it is that reference ones now - if you can get hold of one. Its very sad time for GPU's.
 
Spiritwolf said:
That is the current world champion in overclocking beating kingpin. I guess that is the reason why it is expensive, supposedly it is heavily binned for over clocking.

The current leading bench mark ranks are on this card. 3DMark, Cine Bench etc

Not really useful unless you are planning to on LN2 cooling and in to competitive overclocking
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That is not the card breaking the records

This is the one for that

https://www.galax.com/en/graphics-card/30-series/3090-series/geforce-rtx-3090-hof-le.html

They look very similar though.
 
Are people on an average wage actually buying 3090s though? I imagined it would be people well above the national average anyway.

I think one weeks wages is a justifiable amount. For some people that's a 1660 Super, for others it's a 3090 for £2700.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Are people on an average wage actually buying 3090s though? I imagined it would be people well above the national average anyway.

I think one weeks wages is a justifiable amount. For some people that's a 1660 Super, for others it's a 3090 for £2700.
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3090 is 1.5 weeks for me, no idea if that's average or not in UK wages
 
It's not really about how many weeks wages it is, it's more about whether you have the money available and there is nothing better to use it on.
 
Grim5 said:
I'm quite surprised these price increases haven't yet hit mobile phones, it's predicted to this year (push up phone rices by a lot)
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No-one is going outside so no-one is buying a new phone :P My main driver for a new phone is when the battery keeps me needing to be tethered to a charger when I am out and about.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Are people on an average wage actually buying 3090s though? I imagined it would be people well above the national average anyway.

I think one weeks wages is a justifiable amount. For some people that's a 1660 Super, for others it's a 3090 for £2700.
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Just imagine that £1400 holiday that people who go on holidays didn't go on. Now imagine them spending it on another hobby of theirs.
 
Kaapstad said:
That is not the card breaking the records

This is the one for that

https://www.galax.com/en/graphics-card/30-series/3090-series/geforce-rtx-3090-hof-le.html

They look very similar though.
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Correct.

The LN2 one we won't be getting, way to limited.
The Premium we might get 5 units, but also an unknown.
The regular one we were allocated 100 units and we took them all as I know they will sell.

Yes its mega money, but of course it is, this card is totally custom and extremely unique, plus very rare, said items carry huge premiums, for those who don't want to spend 2.5k on a GPU, absolutely fine, 3090's start at £1399 so buy the cheaper cards, but these cards do have a market and OcUK will sell those 100 units without any issues. :)
 
Kaapstad said:
It's not really about how many weeks wages it is, it's more about whether you have the money available and there is nothing better to use it on.
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this ! really doesnt matter how much you earn if you have to spend it all out. some one on 400 quid a week could be better off than someone on 5000 a week if its all out lay.

3090s at 1400 seem dear but they making 245 quid a month on mining. same as all the nvidia cards they raking in mining profit being gouged so they going to be dear. also they are actually really good.

for eg. a 3060ti at normal price should be £400. for a base model. thats ten times quicker than a 1060. so mining and gouging is the only bad thing about it otherwise they are really good cards.
 
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