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At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?

reflux said:
Can't say I feel anything other than disappointed by the status of the GPU market these days. Saving and upgrading your GPU used to be exciting. Now I earn way more than I did back then and I'm looking at the pricing and thinking it must surely be about to come down, a lot, right? :rolleyes:

I miss the days of the 4870X2 (top AMD card at the time) for £440.
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Same. Upgrading a GPU is just a massive chore and much of the enjoyment is sucked away by the feeling you've just been rinsed.
 
reflux said:
Can't say I feel anything other than disappointed by the status of the GPU market these days. Saving and upgrading your GPU used to be exciting. Now I earn way more than I did back then and I'm looking at the pricing and thinking it must surely be about to come down, a lot, right? :rolleyes:

I miss the days of the 4870X2 (top AMD card at the time) for £440.
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This sort of thing is unfortunately (at least in part) the result of the growing wealth divide...
 
I was really looking forward to a new build this year but the stock issues, crazy prices and questionable performance all just removed the fun from it.

And not just graphics cards, price inflation and poor stock availablity for everything from cases and PSUs to GPUs.

So I’m giving my AM4 rig a last upgrade with a 5700X3D and a b grade 4070Ti Super and hopefully that will keep me running for a few more years!
 
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aaronyuri said:
Welcome to the graphics card market in 2025, everyone! £3,800 for a £1,939 card. **** me.
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2025? This is just repeat of pandemic. And they do sell! Nvidia sees lukewarm reviews of their 5k series GPUs but then long queues to buy one and people paying scalper prices, and likely already plans to increase prices even more with 6k generation, with 10% performance increase. Because they will still sell, it seems, so why wouldn't they? :/
 
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My next card is going to be mid tier for what it's worth. I did some tests today and games look amazing on my 3050 (albeit with a 9800x3d). Red Dead 2 at 4k close to max settings, Returnal 4k Medium, Final Fantasy 7 rebirth and remake.

You only need a competant graphics card for 90% of the enjoyment IMO. Only exception would be if you REALLY love Ray Tracing.
 
Tinek said:
2025? This is just repeat of pandemic. And they do sell! Nvidia sees lukewarm reviews of their 5k series GPUs but then long queues to buy one and people paying scalper prices, and likely already plans to increase prices even more with 6k generation, with 10% performance increase. Because they will still sell, it seems, so why wouldn't they? :/
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In the pandemic, a £1,700-£1,800 3090 would go for £2,000. About an 11-18% markup. It's 2025, a £1,939 5090 is going for £3,800. That's a 95% markup.

This is no repeat. This is something else entirely. This is terrible for the market.
 
I read the reviews, watched the video's and concluded. Nvidia could do one and bought an RX 7900 XT for One half less than what the RTX 5080 is selling for (£1,400 - £1,700!!!).

It has four gig more VRAM, a bigger bus (320 bit vs 256 bit) and does 1440p fine. It won't be quite as quick as the RTX 5080, but for a two year old GPU, that only really became available in December 2022, I think it does pretty well.

If the RX 9070XT, performs massively better, I would consider getting one of those.

Graphically moving from my RTX 3070 to the 7900XT, I have noticed an improvement. And when I get a 1440P monitor, I think this will last me a few years (the GPU, 7900XT).

I have to say the build quality of the RX 7900XT, from Sapphire is great. However, it is one big and heavy GPU that needs that support bracket...I do not miss Nvidia driver menu's, nor ray tracing (I find ray tracing hyped and still in its infancy). I know the 7900XT does ray tracing, but I am not that bothered by the lower performance. I prefer high frames per second and good latency.
 
Klunt Bumskrint said:
Seriously, what is wrong with people?

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The crazy thing is that people are buying them at that price. Far more have sold than I would have expected. I think the record, so far, is someone paid £4,600 for an Asus 5090.

As you ask "what is wrong with people?".

I wish they would stop this. This hysterical "must have at any cost" is hurting an already damaged market.
 
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Never thought I'd spend £1700 on a 4090 FE at launch. But given the shower that is the 50 series launch, I'll keep it until 60 series, so ok value I suppose.
 
aaronyuri said:
In the pandemic, a £1,700-£1,800 3090 would go for £2,000. About an 11-18% markup. It's 2025, a £1,939 5090 is going for £3,800. That's a 95% markup.

This is no repeat. This is something else entirely. This is terrible for the market.
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Markups in comparison to what? How many times it has to be repeated that MSRP is only for FE models and has nothing to do with AIB pricing? Nvidia itself made sure of that, charging AIB a lot for components and leaving them little choice apparently. For example both Asus and MSI on their own websites already raised prices of 5k series models considerably. So then markup you mention is much smaller than 95% for 5090. Also, scalpers prices were much higher than you mention in pandemic, as I've seen 3080s for over 2k.
 
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Rup said:
Never thought I'd spend £1700 on a 4090 FE at launch. But given the shower that is the 50 series launch, I'll keep it until 60 series, so ok value I suppose.
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The longer it goes for, the more confidence I'm getting that 6090 will be a mediocre upgrade for £2700 price, though. :/and that 6080 will barely match 4090 both in performance and price. This might be my last GPU in this decade, it seems, as the pattern is clear so far.
 
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martos123 said:
These prices are likely to push more people towards consoles too. A top end setup is £4-5k these days if you include monitor.
You could buy a PS5 Pro, Oled TV and decent surround setup for that. For a lot of people this will be a more appealing way to spend their cash.
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Huge majority seems to be happy with just mobile games - people already have fancy phones that can run them. The rest might indeed gravitate towards consoles more. Nvidia is simply pricing people out of PC gaming.
 
Some humans will take atvantage of other people's as its in the human nature, I blame nvida as it was a paper launch rather than real one.
 
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