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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Some of the old guard are loosening up and now conceding that its not gonna get cheaper. It better be top performance is all I can say to justify not only the cost but the extra power draw! :p
 
Th0nt said:
Some of the old guard are loosening up and now conceding that its not gonna get cheaper. It better be top performance is all I can say to justify not only the cost but the extra power draw! :p
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They keep doing this, just as the AMD crew do it, "oh i'm going to get top of the range card performance for mid range prices now....." no you're not.
 
humbug said:
On MSI's part sure, but the fact that Nvidia resigned the power inlet suggests something in its own right.
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Yes, but power supplies won't be the issue as converter cables will be supplied with the GPU. It's thermals that will be the issue, as these things are clearly being pushed to the limit.
 
Th0nt said:
Some of the old guard are loosening up and now conceding that its not gonna get cheaper. It better be top performance is all I can say to justify not only the cost but the extra power draw! :p
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People believe what they want to believe, I recall being told by some that the lockdown would bring cheaper cards, I agued they'd definitely become more expensive and was told I didn't understand basic economics!

:D

When people paid Turing prices, they signed up for more expensive Ampere cards. They just didn't see it coming. NV will charge every last penny they can until people stop buying their cards. People will buy Ampere en masse, then in 2-3 years time the 4000 series will be even more expensive again...and up until release we'll hear the same wishfull thinking from forumites etc about cheaper halo cards.

Some people just don't understand how big business works.
 
If they are that power hungry, I hope they have better coolers in general. Considering how important low temps are to clock speeds on Nvidia cards.
 
Hardware unboxed made a good point about people reacting badly to the rumoured 400W requirements of these GPU's, Nobody really used to complain about this with SLI setups of the past.

At one point I was running a 'Tri-fire' setup consisting of a Radeon 295x2 (500W) and a R9 290x reference GPU (290W) so all together those were pulling nearly 800W from my PSU under load.
 
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