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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

beany_bot said:
No no they didnt. turing "1" sold poorly (numbers). Nvidia realised they CANT charge anything they want. Hence the release of the much better priced turing "2". (supers).
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Cobblers, that's why they're charging the same/more all over again. The release of lower end models was always coming and they were always going to be cheaper. That's common sense.
 
BigBANGtheory said:
Nvidia must know that though, I wonder if this is a pre-cursor to some fast SSD to Vram memory swapping via a special controller or the tensor cores, at which point Nvidia will claim you get up to 2TB Vram or some outlandish claim
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Well we know for a fact that *NV will claim anything when it comes to VRAM!

:D

*To be balanced it's is fair to say any big tech company will say/do anything without compunction to sell you less for more.
 
Sibbers said:
I remember people who got 2 x voodoo 2’s and ran them in SLI had more money than sense because they spent £300 on graphics cards that they could only use for gaming. I had 2 of those and was well smug :)
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I had two of those for free courtesy of 3Dfx, Wargasm with SLI ruled!
 
pBay said:
When do reviews typically land...release day?
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Yeah. Release day reviews do. But you get much better and more accurate reviews after a week or so. It usually takes that long for the bugs, tweaks, community found issues etc to come out in the wash. If you are patient it's well worth waiting 2 weeks after launch to get a proper feel for the cards.
 
beany_bot said:
If you are patient it's well worth waiting 2 weeks after launch to get a proper feel for the cards.
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By which time there will be no card to be found in stock anywhere and the shops will hike prices. But yeah it would be best to wait to see reviews and bugs ironed out and then if lucky buy the card you want. Or even better wait for AMD to release theirs and then NV to release their supers again.

Neverending waiting though.
 
pBay said:
When do reviews typically land...release day?
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depends what you mean by reviews...

1. Trust worthy reviews where anything is open to critic
or
2. Reviews by those receiving sample products ahead of launch and heavily constrained by what they can/cannot say, draw comparisons against, forced to use favourable games and benchmarks for fear of upsetting Nvidia

The latter are really Nvidia using tech sites and YouTubers as an extension to their marketing and should be viewed as such, useful and arguably interesting even entertaining but not a proper review
 
BigBANGtheory said:
depends what you mean by reviews...

1. Trust worthy reviews where anything is open to critic
or
2. Reviews by those receiving sample products ahead of launch and heavily constrained by what they can/cannot say, draw comparisons against, forced to use favourable games and benchmarks for fear of upsetting Nvidia
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2. ah like AMDs 5700 release then :p
 
Kelt said:
@JediFragger

Have to agree, annoying habit.
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Yep, very annoying.

Read this morning that the next COD game on the PS5 will be running at 4K/120 if you have the TV to support it.

Bloody well hope Ampere comes with HDMI 2.1 but as yet I’ve seen no confirmation of that. They’ll be missing a trick if the new cards aren’t 2.1.
 
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Twinz said:
IDK, They seem to be drip-feeding performance while overcharging for what they are delivering...like Intel.
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There is not such a thing as "over charging". That is not how business works. You can charge anything you like. Your success depends on who buys it. There is no such thing as too much profit. Never was, never will be.

Let me give you a real world example. At one point in my life (I was at a low I will admit) I was selling natural colon cleansing pills. Total farce, company was ran by a woman I will call only "Miss Information".

This colon cleansing product was $69.90. You took it over the course of a month and it made you poop your brains out. They claimed it wasn't a laxative, but I know a little about herbal ingredients and so on so I decided to look it up. It was totally a laxative. So it didn't clean anything, it just made you crap your brains out.

OK, $70 for a good crap. Not only that but it was auto ship. So you got it every 60 days, and they made it very hard to cancel.

Just before I packed it in I was on the night shift and I decided to do some spying. I went into the owner's office and I dug through her files. This particular product cost 50 cents to make per unit. Of course, you need to take into account all of the TV ads and gawd knows wherever else they were pushing this stuff.

But it just goes to show, you can charge whatever you like for something. No matter how bad it is, or how false your advertising. That, sadly, *is* business and it is how capitalism works. There are no laws on how much profit a company can make.

I don't blame Nvidia for that. If I could bottle up my belly button fluff and get someone to pay hand over fist for it I probably would. Remember, for a price to stick you need buyers, and they never seem to disappoint.
 
HRL said:
Yep, very annoying.

Read this morning that the next COD game on the PS5 will be running at 4K/120 if you have the TV to support it.

Bloody well hope Ampere comes with HDMI 2.1 but as yet I’ve seen no confirmation of that. They’ll be missing a trick if the new cards aren’t 2.1.
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Dunno where you read that but PS5 can not run 4K @ 120fps
 
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