Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?

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Yes surprised that this doesn't have a thread yet.

What is better than selling something? Renting it out!

Hm, €200pa for a card which will be outdated in ~2yrs (node advances have slowed), isn't actually that bad. Latency would be big problem I suppose.

What are Nvidia going to do with all those cards themselves once they are too slow? Guess they can move them to duties in lower tiers for a but for how long?

No, it's horrible. Edited just before your post but realised that you actually need Shield TV Pro for 4K HDR, so that's even more. The issue is that you don't get to keep the hardware (that has value) and you can't rent it out yourself in order to recoup the money. F.ex right now my 6800 does around $2.5 a day in Eth, over a year that's $900, and I paid $770 for it (and in fact I has already mined well in excess of $1000 since I got it last year and that was a half-hearted attempt by me). Even if we say I can only sell it for half when RDNA 3 lands (which is very pessimistic considering its price today is >$1000) then it will still have paid for itself twice over. Imagine paying Nvidia 200€ a year for the privilege instead! In effect I'd have lost 1900€ over buying the GPU myself!

And that's to not even go into latency, GFN's numerous service issues, more limited game selection, modability and on and on it goes.

Is that £2.5 AFTER electricity prices are taken into account for electricity use?

With electricity prices going up by 20 or 30% in the last couple of months, surely mining isn't profitable now?

 

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https://whattomine.com/gpus?cost=0.42&button=&nvidia=true&amd=true&filter=all

Even a 1070 makes profit at triple my current electric price.

https://whattomine.com/gpus?cost=0.63&button=&nvidia=true&amd=true&filter=all

A gtx 1660 makes a profit at 4 times my current electric price

https://whattomine.com/gpus?cost=0.84&button=&nvidia=true&amd=true&filter=all

Do people seriously not understand how much the profit is compared to electric? Electric is pennies and these things are making £ per day

Even at 6 times my current electric price 90p per kwh it's profitable

https://whattomine.com/gpus?cost=1.26&button=&nvidia=true&amd=true&filter=all

My house leccy bill is about £1 a day for non mining tasks - Adding mining cost could just mean I'm mining for nothing. 3080Ti coming in but not sure now if I should just return it, rather than side use it for mining.

 

[subbytna]

lolwut?

A 3080ti makes £3.70 per day profit at my current electric prices.

Bought it for gaming but I'm looking at mining, might not do it but I'll see.

I've not mined before properly, so not sure of how it all works

 

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JPR say shipments increased by 12%

https://www.techpowerup.com/289243/...-card-shipments-increase-by-12-year-over-year
Thing this isn't the full dGPU report which AFAIR comes later, but the ration continues to be 83:17:

Which continues to look to me that consoles continue to get all AMD's TSMC wafers which aren't CPUs (although without the consoles AMD would never booked so many wafers in the first place).

EDIT: while I think this isn't the JPR dGPU report, there is an interesting dGPU stats:

60% gone to miners no doubt

 

[subbytna]

Added another 4 to my collection of 3090's today

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4 claps for 4 cards


what do you need these for?

 

[subbytna]

Here's another slant to this thread....anyone started to browse the OCUK forums less now, too due to the stupid prices of technology?

 

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Kind of the opposite. The prices have turned OCUK into a support group of some sort.

I get that yeah. I guess so.

For me it's more of the sort of thinking, "Well there's more tech launched for sale that I refuse to pay these prices for" type stuff, which kind of, for me anyway, makes me think why go to the forums to read of people paying £1000+ for a 3080, when I'll never pay that out of principle.

 

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how many have been returned or cancelled?

Doubt that'll get answered lol

 

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Ticking along here with an old ivybridge 3570k and RX580, showing it's age quite heavily now. I don't play as much now as I've developed other hobbies, but I'm playing through Final Fantasy 15 and it's struggling, lots of stutter

I'd like to upgrade but I can't justify the current pricing, I can afford it but it's more the principle than anything- what a joke

Happy with how long I've got out of my current build, but think I'll stick to other hobbies and playing the occasional old game in my backlog

I've about 50+ games I've got in my steam and Epic library, have played about 10 of them. I'm going to hang fire on a GPU and go back through them all and try them. I don't really game muchc these days anyway so it'll take me a long time to get through them

 

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Love way they keep moving the goal posts!

Too much cash to be made for them to make an effort to solve the supply issues

 

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pray tell how would they solve it ? tsmc and intel are dropping BILLIONS on new fabs, and it takes a good couple of years to construct and fit them out let alone companies who make the tooling have to expand as well. its not as easy as just shouting "make more"

Stop selling hundreds of cards to miners, in bulk, for a start.....prayed...and told