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When the Gpu's prices will go down ?

Prices will go down but never to the old levels. They now have us buying at crazy prices so they have us with the short and curlies.

We will see prices that look better to us but never the RRP that was promised.

I basically expect them to just up the MSRP by about 50%. What used to be a £300 card will now be a £450. It's still going to look better to consumers than 2021 prices.

Unfortunately I think it will massively reduce the market for GPUs... people will opt out of PC gaming, or stretch older cards an extra couple of years to buy them less frequently. Major own goal, imo.
 
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wont see prices dropping on this site anytime soon.

I was on the fence leaning towards buying this card. it was £449 yesterday and overnight they have upped the price another £50 to £499
 
I basically expect them to just up the MSRP by about 50%. What used to be a £300 card will now be a £450. It's still going to look better to consumers than 2021 prices.

Unfortunately I think it will massively reduce the market for GPUs... people will opt out of PC gaming, or stretch older cards an extra couple of years to buy them less frequently. Major own goal, imo.

I know it is some way off where it needs to be, but a lot of people are going to just sign up to MS gamepass and just stream their games when that technology is available from MS and it can provide a good enough experience. People on here might not like it, but it is the future.

95% of people are not going to spend 1K-3K on a single GPU in a gaming PC, when they can just stream games.

NV can probably see this coming and will need to milk for dGPU market for all its worth, plenty of people left who will pay anything for a GPU.
 
I know it is some way off where it needs to be, but a lot of people are going to just sign up to MS gamepass and just stream their games when that technology is available from MS and it can provide a good enough experience. People on here might not like it, but it is the future.

95% of people are not going to spend 1K-3K on a single GPU in a gaming PC, when they can just stream games.

NV can probably see this coming and will need to milk for dGPU market for all its worth, plenty of people left who will pay anything for a GPU.


Maybe when we live in a country that doesn't have third world internet as we do. Even third world countries have better internet than we do actually... We currently are the joke of the so called first world for internet. Thank our backward leaders.

This master plan of streaming games is not happening anytime soon for us, even most USA states don't have the speed internet required and if they do the price is shocking and same here in UK if you can actually get on fibre the prices are silly for most contracts. But agree this will become the future for many, it will probably take over the console market first then maybe if pc gaming hardware is getting to the point of silly prices being the norm, then the pc gamers will be next, pc users that do more than game on their computers will not be going anywhere, even with cloud apps. The people using cloud apps will be on tablets and net books by then and using online services and computing so their device is nothing more than a screen and input device.
 
I know it is some way off where it needs to be, but a lot of people are going to just sign up to MS gamepass and just stream their games when that technology is available from MS and it can provide a good enough experience. People on here might not like it, but it is the future.

95% of people are not going to spend 1K-3K on a single GPU in a gaming PC, when they can just stream games.

NV can probably see this coming and will need to milk for dGPU market for all its worth, plenty of people left who will pay anything for a GPU.

NV saw it long ago, they are marketing geforce now on ISPs pretty strongly, although not at margins ISPs find appealing yet.
 
NV saw it long ago, they are marketing geforce now on ISPs pretty strongly, although not at margins ISPs find appealing yet.
Interesting, but do Nvidia ever intent to go for lower margins for this? They already think of themselves as a mini-Apple. I guess they might consider subsiding their entry into the market with the intention of later up'ing their price. Maybe a limit amount of games at a price where ISPs would bite, and later up the price for a premium service once they have gained a foothold?
 
Interesting, but do Nvidia ever intent to go for lower margins for this? They already think of themselves as a mini-Apple. I guess they might consider subsiding their entry into the market with the intention of later up'ing their price. Maybe a limit amount of games at a price where ISPs would bite, and later up the price for a premium service once they have gained a foothold?

Their reselling contract is like 10% margin, minimum investment $2 million.
If you want you can put their hardware in your datacenter but I cannot disclose details, only bloody expensive and not for the faint... Let's just say that the minimum installation is well above a 100GPUs.
 
95% of people are not going to spend 1K-3K on a single GPU in a gaming PC, when they can just stream games.
Or they could just buy a console for £360-£450. Streaming is fundamentally flawed for gaming due to latency, unless they figure out how to beat the speed of light then a local machine will remain the preferred choice in our lifetimes. Of course the games industry will try to push streaming because it would give them complete control and solve piracy, but it's not in the consumers best interests.
 
Or they could just buy a console for £360-£450. Streaming is fundamentally flawed for gaming due to latency, unless they figure out how to beat the speed of light then a local machine will remain the preferred choice in our lifetimes. Of course the games industry will try to push streaming because it would give them complete control and solve piracy, but it's not in the consumers best interests.

Well yeah they could buy a console obviously.

Well, preferred, perfect or not, it is coming, and a hell of a lot of people will think the experience is good enough, maybe not over the next 3-5 years, but it's happening. As for the "best interests of the consumer" people stopped fighting for their best consumer interests years ago.
 
Well yeah they could buy a console obviously.

Well, preferred, perfect or not, it is coming, and a hell of a lot of people will think the experience is good enough, maybe not over the next 3-5 years, but it's happening. As for the "best interests of the consumer" people stopped fighting for their best consumer interests years ago.
Maybe it will eventually be good enough for single player games, but for competitive online games there's no chance that most people decide it's good enough. It will likely co-exist and be a budget choice for casual, infrequent gaming.
 
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wont see prices dropping on this site anytime soon.

I was on the fence leaning towards buying this card. it was £449 yesterday and overnight they have upped the price another £50 to £499
Well the good news is I saw a video of a guy comparing the 2 with a series of benchmarks and the Pulse came out just as good as the nitro, in some cases even better.

He said that there was really no difference beteween them so to save the extra 20 dollars (in this case £50) and just buy the pulse.
 
Chip manufacturers are in a little bit of a panic mode.

firstly, the US think it's highly likely Russia invades Ukraine within the next week or two. Secondly the US will apply immediate sanctions and Russia will fire back with its own sanctions.

The problem is when Russia does its sanctions its going to cut off the supply of Neon and Palladium, both are materials used in chip manufacturing.

AMD shares down 10% today and down nearly 40% from their high 6 months ago
 
Chip manufacturers are in a little bit of a panic mode.

firstly, the US think it's highly likely Russia invades Ukraine within the next week or two. Secondly the US will apply immediate sanctions and Russia will fire back with its own sanctions.

The problem is when Russia does its sanctions its going to cut off the supply of Neon and Palladium, both are materials used in chip manufacturing.

AMD shares down 10% today and down nearly 40% from their high 6 months ago

Nvidia shares are also down as are Intel; AMD is related to the Xilinx purchase, and are rated as BUY and being an excellent chance in this dip.
 
I've seen a Gigabyte RTX 3080 for £1050 elsewhere, a few cards in stock for a few hours now. Now that's still poor but also not a price I've seen for a long time.
 
Look promising but this war may change (or un-change) things again. Bought a Strix 6600 XT and confused to keep or return. Waiting sealed on side and I'm sitting on Intel HD630 lol.
 
Look promising but this war may change (or un-change) things again. Bought a Strix 6600 XT and confused to keep or return. Waiting sealed on side and I'm sitting on Intel HD630 lol.

Hard to know what and when to buy a Gpu card driving me nuts only have a rtx 1050Ti but have saved a lot of cash so can buy anything, expect rtx3090 / 3080Ti / 6900XT which is overkill for my needs and a waste of money.

That's the 6600XT I would have bought the Strix.
 
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