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Do we really need a 5090 ?

Stu999 said:
Sounds like you need to find a job where management aren't idiots.
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Yep, we can't help the company if the bosses can't see the light. It's the management level i.e. us, that's telling the owners it isn't working but they refuse to listen.

We even explained it to them, like a supermarket has its budget brands and top end brands but even the top end ones will compete on prices since they all sell the same or similar products that don't warrant such a price increase. It makes no sense to do but yeaaaah blinded and refuse to listen.

Sad really, watching them drive the company into the ground as it's us that's built it up at the end of the day and we, the management and staff under us has poured our hearts and souls into it.
 
Jay85 said:
Funnily enough i watched LTT's video on the Voodoo 6000 unreleased gpu and how 3DFX ended up the way they did because they got too complacent.

Feels a lot like Nvidia right now.
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3dfx died because they ran out of cash during a period where GPU architecture was completely changing how frames are rendered every other generation and Nvidia came out with the first GPU that uses shaders, 3dfx didn't have shaders and they had just spent all their money acquiring an AIB so they can build their own cards and they had no money to build a new architecture

The late 90s and early 2000s were wild for GPUs. You could have an Nvidia GPU and your friend a 3dfx, you play the same game and yet the game graphics looks completely different on the two PCs, that's how rapid the market was changing and some games wouldn't even run on some brands of GPus because they lacked a specific hardware function and then you could even have a 3rd friend who played the same game without a GPU at all and rendered the game on his CPU . You don't see that anymore, games look and run the same on everything these days
 
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The GPU market back then was mental; 1998 through to maybe 2004 performance was moreorless doubling every 6 months.
 
Grim5 said:
3dfx died because they ran out of cash during a period where GPU architecture was completely changing how frames are rendered every other generation and Nvidia came out with the first GPU that uses shaders, 3dfx didn't have shaders and they had just spent all their money acquiring an AIB so they can build their own cards and they had no money to build a new architecture

The late 90s and early 2000s were wild for GPUs. You could have an Nvidia GPU and your friend a 3dfx, you play the same game and yet the game graphics looks completely different on the two PCs, that's how rapid the market was changing and some games wouldn't even run on some brands of GPus because they lacked a specific hardware function and then you could even have a 3rd friend who played the same game without a GPU at all and rendered the game on his CPU . You don't see that anymore, games look and run the same on everything these days
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What a time to be alive and able to purchase these things back then. I was still a kid during this time and had no idea! My dad did mention stuff about pc's back then but i don't think he had time due to trying to raise us kids :cry:, wonder if he blames us for missing out lol.
 
Grim5 said:
3dfx died because they ran out of cash during a period where GPU architecture was completely changing how frames are rendered every other generation and Nvidia came out with the first GPU that uses shaders, 3dfx didn't have shaders and they had just spent all their money acquiring an AIB so they can build their own cards and they had no money to build a new architecture

The late 90s and early 2000s were wild for GPUs. You could have an Nvidia GPU and your friend a 3dfx, you play the same game and yet the game graphics looks completely different on the two PCs, that's how rapid the market was changing and some games wouldn't even run on some brands of GPus because they lacked a specific hardware function and then you could even have a 3rd friend who played the same game without a GPU at all and rendered the game on his CPU . You don't see that anymore, games look and run the same on everything these days
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Really 3dfx died because of stupid decisions by the board, buying STB which was a pretty bad board manufacturer, spending money on tv commercials while kinda witty cost a lot to produce. And the fact that rampage was constantly delayed while stop gap products were trotted out. Pretty much everything after voodoo 2 like banshee etc was a stopgap while rampage was delayed and then had to have additions planned for the design due to feature creep. They had just got rampage working by the time the doors closed, had they been able to get it up and running a few months earlier they might well be still around.
 
What happened to £400-£500 top end money for card the money is obscene now.

Just like mobile phones people happy to pay over £1k it's mental now.
 
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