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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**
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Having only 575W is going to drive me absolutely nuts for the next 2 years
Nothing a shunt mod won't sort.
Hey, was that from the place with the queue? If so, what was your position?
So I think OCUK should do this, when the Astrals come in next week, after the pre orders are fulfilled, rather than putting it on the web and becoming a 1st come 1st serve basis we all know the bots will get them all, look at yesterdays amp extreme drop, they went in seconds
I think the Astrals should be sold to verified accounts or in a way that doesn't go to the bots
The astral is the most desired 50 series card and ppl will pay over the odds for them, but question is how to verify the legitimacy
I think the Astrals should be sold to verified accounts or in a way that doesn't go to the bots
The astral is the most desired 50 series card and ppl will pay over the odds for them, but question is how to verify the legitimacy
It's bananas. The world has gone mad. In addition to, as you state, paying twice as much for 15% more performance of what you could have owned a year ago, that card is going to drop in resale value like a brick.
But I guess if you need a card now and it needs to be a top-tier 5080 for some reason...
anyways i have been posting on this forum on a daily basis since the jensen 50 series reveal, finally 2morow I will receive my amp extreme 5090 and will close this chapter for another 2 years until the 60 series,
I did the same for the 20 30 and 40 series and its actually fun to discuss the GPU situation, everyone has a different story to tell
I prematurely sold my 4090 6 weeks ago and then realised I had no GPU to game with, I had to borrow a GPU then return it, then find another GPU only to realise it was busted, did an RMA on that which is ongoing, so tomorrow god willing I will have a 5090
I did the same for the 20 30 and 40 series and its actually fun to discuss the GPU situation, everyone has a different story to tell
I prematurely sold my 4090 6 weeks ago and then realised I had no GPU to game with, I had to borrow a GPU then return it, then find another GPU only to realise it was busted, did an RMA on that which is ongoing, so tomorrow god willing I will have a 5090
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Deflating isnt it
So much for verified suppliers.
Sense check- much difference between 5090 Palit GR and 5090 Asus TUF in your opinions? TUF marketing 'fancy' capacitors etc, but, really? I will put on a water block (when available) so temps/fans/noise not really a worry in the long run, and Heatkiller water block for Palit maybe edges the Alphacool one for the TUF in looks. Cheers.
That's not really how it works. For them to spread things around like that by limiting US price rises would likely mean selling at a loss in the US. It doesn't matter how big the US market is - selling at a loss is not something that will happen (and a bigger market is worse in those terms). If US tariffs really do come in and really do hit GPUs (neither of which is really a given), then prices will increase in the US. At some point, price elasticity will start to limit demand there, which will mean more cards being shipped to the rest of the world. Nvidia could try increasing prices in the rest of the world to offset lost revenue from the US, but those same price elasticities will still applies elsewhere in the world.
Edit: What you need to remember here is that it is reasonable to assume that Nvidia is already pricing globally at the point it thinks will maximise profit. If US tariffs mean it can no longer do that in the US, it's going to make things worse for Nvidia if they throw off the balance in the rest of the world as well.
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It would be selling at a loss in the US but it would be subsidised by the rest of us. And it's probably AIBs that are more affected than this than Nvidia themselves, depending where the FE cards are assembled. Companies will have a choice between lowering demand significantly in the US by increasing prices there, or spreading out the demand loss a bit across multiple locations and subsidiaries. I think we will have to see what happens here.
Selling at a loss in the US would be very bad for Nvidia. Trying to "subsidise" that by increasing prices in other regions would make things even worse. If Nvidia could get more revenue by increasing prices in those regions, it would have done so. Assuming Nvidia has got its sums and market research right, raising prices in those regions would actually lower overall revenue.
It's not widely appreciated just how much tariffs would hurt the US. Even Trump's narrative for them is that they will cause short term pain, but that this will be offset once companies move manufacturing to the US (which isn't very likely on a large scale).