Nothing, they will sell out at inflated prices. The 4090 only went up over time with more availability. The 6 Astral 5080s sold yesterday people don’t care they will pay whatever even if they are getting a bad deal.
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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**
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dropped down to 16 for the Palit RTX 5080 gaming pro, looks like the place I pre-ordered got 17 of these yesterday. I am hoping the next stock time for these cards is the same numbers and I might have the card by the estimated date of the end of the month.
Talking about 5090's, 5080's are another story. - I think there's a limited about of people interested in a £2000-3000 GPU. Once we get 1000 actual 5090 cards in the UK, things will quickly change and I think we'll see mass returns/refunds/issues etc.
Though perhaps UK will take until next year to get 1000 cards, we just don't know.
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Nearer 1100..
Yesterday, a 'significant' amount of 5090FE cards (over 100) were sold. There are various discord and telegram channels where this is being discussed and purchases are being confirmed etc.
If this continues, the pricing story will quickly change IMO, as there's a finite amount of people that will consider a GPU costing £2000+.
I keep seeing posts in other forums about "holding resellers to account" and ensuring it's recorded places e.g. FAQs for posterity which ones takes advantage of these situations with repeat offenders called out... LOL. Hold resellers to account with your wallets, people, not an electronic epitaph on a reddit thread that will be seen by a few hundred people, then forgetten.
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It would be nice to normalise supply for everyone, but also the power of the public;
This, there are thousands if not tens of thousands of people in the UK alone who'll want one for non-gaming use cases.
What's your source for this? I think people overestimate the amount of technically minded people in the UK that will actually use a 5090 for AI as part of their work. Those who are capable of utilizing it (in a professional manner) will be remotely connecting to a datacentre, where there are hundreds and thousands of NVIDIA AI GPU's.
AI isn't the only non-gaming use case, and it was the same with the 4090s. Demand remained super high because it wasn't just gamers who were fighting over them.
...and no, not everyone who uses one in a professional environment has access to a data centre.
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OCUK has updated information on some 5070ti pages
Being very close to the wire on this, the vast majority of people who are pro users a) don't need a 5090, b) will be buying the capacity from services (and it's not like these services aren't completely democratized now and not available). Sure, there are cases where owning a top discrete solution is better, but these are esoteric and few (esp. now that crypto ROI is low).
Super excited for this "launch"
Any takers for odds that there will actually be supply, and resellers won't jack up prices?Damn we are all being brainwashed. Posting 2500 like it's a good deal. It's not. In the grand scheme of things I guess it is though, especially when you see ocuk acting like butter wouldn't melt selling the same card for 2800. What a truly bad time to be a PC gamer or an enthusiast. Everyone, absolutely everyone, is out to take what they can get off you with zero guilt or morals on their way to doing it.
I remember building my first ever PC using an Athlon 2600 XP that you could trick the bios into thinking it was a 3200 XP via a multiplier change. 512 of ram and an ATI 9600 graphics card which I later upgraded to 1 gig of ram and a 9800 Pro. Much more happier and simpler none toxic gaming times.
While I'm sure that's the case for the vast majority, that still leaves potentially thousands of people who want a discrete solution for a non-gaming use case. We saw it in the last generation with the 4090 and I still see it on Discord and the likes of Reddit where people don't just want one for gaming.
Given the situation with the numbers so far, it'll be months before you can go on the nVidia site and buy a 5090FE without using an alert system to grab one within 30 seconds. If we're talking about AIB models north of £2000, then things might get a bit better within a month or two.
u r correct
a lot of independent studios including vfx and architect and many many others use gamer cards instead of professional GPUs to do their rendering and designs, Ive visited many studios in London and the south that use 3090/4090/ and now 5090s, because they use company money they are willing to pay over the odds just to get the cards, especially when they pay freelance artists a daily rate they will slap up these cards 1st, remember to Nvidia gamers come 4th and 5th, I think this might be the new norm unless we get more Nvidia competition.