Ah, ok fair enough, your point makes sense. Unfortunately it's just capitalism at its finest, not much anyone can do.
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Ah, ok fair enough, your point makes sense. Unfortunately it's just capitalism at its finest, not much anyone can do.
If you game at 4k and want high FPS then until 8pm tonight it is the only card that can achieve this in some titles. This is the luxury/enthusiast end of the market and yes prices are stupid. This end of the market used to do SLI/Crossfire systems and they were equally as expensive and even more idiotic because you only actually got decent performance in some situations, at least with a 4090 you get all the performance all the time.
Value is very important to me and even though I can easily afford these type of cards I am loathe to pay this type of money for one. The last 3 cards I purchased have cost £200 , £400 and then £800 , I do not want this to double again if I can help it. There has been hyper inflation over the past 5 years in the gpu market and I do not want to fuel it by paying this amount of money.
I would love the performance of a 4090 and I will be upgrading sometime soon and donating my 6800 to my son. He will also be getting my monitor and until there is the perfect OLED Ultrawide I will not be upgrading. No point me having that type of performance on 3440x1440 60hz.
Value is very important to me and even though I can easily afford these type of cards I am loathe to pay this type of money for one. The last 3 cards I purchased have cost £200 , £400 and then £800 , I do not want this to double again if I can help it. There has been hyper inflation over the past 5 years in the gpu market and I do not want to fuel it by paying this amount of money.
I would love the performance of a 4090 and I will be upgrading sometime soon and donating my 6800 to my son. He will also be getting my monitor and until there is the perfect OLED Ultrawide I will not be upgrading. No point me having that type of performance on 3440x1440 60hz.
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4090 is a fantastic card and anyone buying one (if they can find one) is not making a mistake.
On the downside is the high price, power draw and cooler size.
Something that does not get mentioned is this situation has been created by the demise of mGPU setups. It would be difficult for Nvidia or AMD to justify the cost of their latest top range cards (like the 4090) if they could be beaten by a wide margin with a mGPU setup using cheaper mid range cards or a dual GPU card.
I don't see the situation changing with massive single cards with huge coolers and power draw until we see mGPU again in some shape or form.
On the downside is the high price, power draw and cooler size.
Something that does not get mentioned is this situation has been created by the demise of mGPU setups. It would be difficult for Nvidia or AMD to justify the cost of their latest top range cards (like the 4090) if they could be beaten by a wide margin with a mGPU setup using cheaper mid range cards or a dual GPU card.
I don't see the situation changing with massive single cards with huge coolers and power draw until we see mGPU again in some shape or form.
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Ok, that's a reasonable ish defense if you are planning to use it for 4k 120hz gaming then there's absolutely a use case.Nope, 3d mark legendary/120fps 4k etc. and plenty of braincells. I'm not sure what the problem is? It's faster - do you know what that means?
It's still an awful value proposition and Jensen loves you.
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Love this response. Glad to see there's some very level headed people still kicking about.
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I understand your point of view, but there's far more too this than jealousy; I'm mainly referring to the fact a £2k card was shipped with a 50p power adapter that is actively as we speak rendering cards dead. They knew exactly what they were doing, these adapters absolutely went through testing but they released them anyway. I can wholly understand buying one at launch even if it is rolling the dice but at this point, until developments occur in this whole fiasco buying one right now is just accepting that you're Jensens little bitch.
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Ferreri's arent shipped so that every single one of them will catch on fire half way down the M4.
There's a big difference here and that comparison doesn't work relative to the situation
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hahahahahahahaha ok I submit...and the feeling is reciprocatedhe's a sliver fox.
That leather jacket is doing some heavy lifting tho
I imagine you’re not into cars, if you were you’d understand the irony of this comment given the brand being mentioned, as far more Ferrari’s have been shipped and caught fire than 4090’s.
So you’re aiming for sensationalism with your posts but accidentally doing irony, must try harder when trolling! Even the username is ironic now!
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Not really as amd driver have always been poor in comparison
Soldato
I agree with OP - but I respect the right to pee away your own money as you see fit.
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Dave is well, let's just say an acquired taste. I do like reading his fairy tales though, always good for a laugh.
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Yet another deluded so and so
It's simple. If you're poor then a 4090 doesn't make sense, and if you aren't poor then it does. It's $1600 every 2 years (or $15/week).
The funny thing is, for the people who can afford a 4090 with ease it's not the card itself that actually makes a dent, it's the time spent using it because the opportunity cost of spending time gaming with it will cost you much more than the PC itself, and in that case - better make it count! So of course they'd buy a 4090.
The funny thing is, for the people who can afford a 4090 with ease it's not the card itself that actually makes a dent, it's the time spent using it because the opportunity cost of spending time gaming with it will cost you much more than the PC itself, and in that case - better make it count! So of course they'd buy a 4090.
I think you are mistaken. I think you are forgetting longevity. I have a 4090. I've done the sums. If I use it for two years and don't sell it on it costs me about £18 a week. If I keep it four years, that's £9 a week. At 6 years, that's £6 a week. For that I get 4k high-refresh raster gaming with no compromises and 4k RT gaming with some compromises. I get peak performance for 2 years then non-halo tier for another 2-4 years. If those figures sound fanciful then consider that my old Maxwell Titan which I bought for £974 in 2015 is still being used today by my brother (and performs much like a 3050) so that's cost something under £3 a week.
Dave is well, let's just say an acquired taste. I do like reading his fairy tales though, always good for a laugh.
I turn into Hal with Dave when he's in his mood...
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