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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

the funny thing is and i just worked this out which makes it even more comedy gold. they just done a rebate on 5 series cards so basically must have had loads of cards to get rid of and shutting down the fabs to make em what does that tell you ? it means they have surplus amounts of cards made or not selling. obviously sales reps gonna say they selling fast..but its simple logic why do big rebates last week or so and shut down fabrication ? lots of em already made. then jack up the price.
 
Personality+ said:


WTF
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Seems everyone in the PC components trade wants to go out of business, the same card is available at other retailers for £600-£700 less :rolleyes: and is over priced even at them rates, how does OCUK justify the price they have it at currently ? The card had an MSRP of £2399/£2499 when it came out. The industry really is dead and the never ending silly prices that make no sense anymore.

Ohh well seems this hobby is dead until everyone involved in making and selling these goods get their act together.

Then the so called shortages and so called countries banned from buying these goods.

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Seems China can still get 5090s without issues .... and no shortages... :rolleyes:
 
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Personality+ said:


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That price is ridiculous. Most expensive retailer in the country by some margin on that. What's funny is that's likely stock that was sat there before prices were going up, so the mark up is just greed, not that they've paid more for it in the first place.

Curious why even they've not bumped the price of Astral's up to similar pricing.
 
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Purgatory said:
Seems everyone in the PC components trade wants to go out of business, the same card is available at other retailers for £600-£700 less :rolleyes: and is over priced even at them rates, how does OCUK justify the price they have it at currently ? The card had an MSRP of £2399/£2499 when it came out. The industry really is dead and the never ending silly prices that make no sense anymore.

Ohh well seems this hobby is dead until everyone involved in making and selling these goods get their act together.

Then the so called shortages and so called countries banned from buying these goods.

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Seems China can still get 5090s without issues .... and no shortages... :rolleyes:
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It was 2489.99 just over a month ago....

ChocAndGray said:
That price is ridiculous. Most expensive retailer in the country by some margin on that. What's funny is that's likely stock that was sat there before prices were going up, so the mark up is just greed, not that they've paid more for it in the first place.

Curious why even they've not bumped the price of Astral's up to similar pricing.
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Prices have gone up across the board on OCUK for 5090's

definitely time to avoid brand new 5090's unless you 1000% need one as prices have crept up everywhere (all be it, much less elsewhere)
 
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Super cards are probably DOA

You reason you introduce a new refresh is when either your competitor forces you to because they are catching up, or when you are trying to increase sales due to a slump as its been a while since your latest product launches. Nvidia doesn't have the first issue, AMD is isnt catching up in sales and on the second issue Nvidia already has another solution - cut production by 50% so they sell wafers to data centres
 
AMD arent competing at the high end, they know its not were the money is.
but i agree with you they likely are DOA, alonge with a lot of other products and services for the next few years
 
Grim5 said:
Super cards are probably DOA

You reason you introduce a new refresh is when either your competitor forces you to because they are catching up, or when you are trying to increase sales due to a slump as its been a while since your latest product launches. Nvidia doesn't have the first issue, AMD is isnt catching up in sales and on the second issue Nvidia already has another solution - cut production by 50% so they sell wafers to data centres
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Will be interesting if they arrive. There was much talk(rumour) of only the amount of memory changing this time but I'd have thought Nvidia would have known about likely shortages ages ago. I wouldn't be surprised if they are launched but it'll be same memory for most of the range, just a bit more performance as is usually expected.
if don't launch before end of Q1 then could be abandoned, partly as getting closer to next gen.
While Nvidia makes much more profit elsewhere, gaming GPU's are still an important market for them and good marketing. I don't think they'd delay the 6000 series too much if there's a chance AMD could take the gaming GPU performance crown for a while, even if only temporarily.
 
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Richdog said:
Since the 3090 days I have realized that buying the best card for the best price at launch, and then sitting pretty for 2 years enjoying max gaming performance, is the best strategy. I will keep doing that until it's no longer practical to do so.
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What you must have missed was getting a 3080 for less than half the price was a much better strategy. With the money saved, a 4090 would have cost you a hell of a lot less :p;)
 
TNA said:
What you must have missed was getting a 3080 for less than half the price was a much better strategy. With the money saved, a 4090 would have cost you a hell of a lot less :p;)
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My first GPU was the 3080. I got super lucky - 1) I got one at launch, and 2) it was only 10-15% slower than the flagship 3090. Since then i've turned into an Nvidia sheep and bought a 4090 and 5090.
 
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They'll never get me on cloud gaming, I've tried it and latency sucks. I'd rather quit gaming than be forced to play on the cloud
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Couldn't agree more. As someone who primarily plays FPS games at 200+ fps, cloud gaming is the last thing I want to experience. Even if the server was within the same city, the latency will be horrible versus native hundreds of fps.
 
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