Blackwell gpus

[chaparral]

At what price would Nvidia struggle to sell the 5090? I genuinely think they could price it at £3000 and still sell out easily.

.. I think even at £3,500 people would still buy them..

Please be quiet guys as gibbo reads these threads

 

[Rroff]

At what price would Nvidia struggle to sell the 5090? I genuinely think they could price it at £3000 and still sell out easily.

What nVidia doesn't seem to have taken onboard very well IMO is that people will pay to have the best of the best, there is almost no limit to what they could sell an actual top end premium card for, what you can't do is replicate that at levels below that - a large percentage of 4090 buyers would have still bought at a higher price whereas you can't replicate that with the 4080.

 

[Rannoch]

Launch day will be fun, endless complaints about slow websites and credit card issues

 

[chaparral]

What nVidia doesn't seem to have taken onboard very well IMO is that people will pay to have the best of the best, there is almost no limit to what they could sell an actual top end premium card for, what you can't do is replicate that at levels below that - a large percentage of 4090 buyers would have still bought at a higher price whereas you can't replicate that with the 4080.

Think they did take it onboard and was just testing to see how much people would pay for a 4080 when they priced it at around £1200

 

[Gerard]

Think they did take it onboard and was just testing to see how much people would pay for a 4080 when they priced it at around £1200

They already had their answers from covid with people throwing almost 2x the cost of a gpu at it. How we went from £650 to £1200 for an 80 class gpu isn't that much of a head scratcher due to that. Gave them carte blanche to double the prices.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Completely agree with you in the logical sense that it would have to be.

However just can't see the reasoning for it - if the card needs that much bandwidth then I'm not sure why they wouldn't just drop HBM3e on it and be done with it (like their data centre cards) rather than the complexity/risk of a 512-bit card after all these years.

Yeah I agree with you on the reasoning... 24GB on 384 would have been fine for anyone that's already going to/considering buying one (the uplift in GPU perf. will be enough of a draw)
HBM would be interesting... wasn't it 1024 bit when AMD used it? (Was that big-Vega? edit: was Radeon VII and was 4096b bus!)... no idea what would be feasible with it now.
A generous take would be that nV realise how powerful it is and don't want it to be bottlenecked by VRAM in 2-4 years more realistically, as you said above, it may be a pivot to the workstation market... for that, it'd be great if the brought back NVLINK... /cough/ @Purgatory

 

[Mesai]

They already had their answers from covid with people throwing almost 2x the cost of a gpu at it. How we went from £650 to £1200 for an 80 class gpu isn't that much of a head scratcher due to that. Gave them carte blanche to double the prices.

And we’ll see it again with this round of GPUs, made worse by the fact that they have zero competition.

Cards will get an MSRP with AIBs adding a couple hundred on top, retailers will sell 10 at MSRP and then mysteriously every other card will be 50% more expensive. People will put up with it and then complain about high pricing.

I’m due an upgrade but will gladly wait a couple months for things to normalise.

 

[TrojanWhore]

They already had their answers from covid with people throwing almost 2x the cost of a gpu at it. How we went from £650 to £1200 for an 80 class gpu isn't that much of a head scratcher due to that. Gave them carte blanche to double the prices.

Tbf, the pre-super 4080 didn't sell especially well as far as I'm aware (and would take the lower RRP of the super as evidence of that!).
The Covid era shortage was a different beast, as it was also dependent on crypto pricing, which meant that the cards would pay for themselves (although wasn't guaranteed...)
I don't deny that it gave them cause to test the waters with higher pricing... and that we've settled above the middle of that range sadly.