Why give a cut to a 3rd party when they already have a sizeable part of their customers willing to throw money at them no questions asked?
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When the Gpu's prices will go down ?
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GPU makers have people who bend over willingly for them already, they don't need to do it themselves
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The industry has certainly come full circle. When 3D accelerators first showed up they came from companies whose ambition was to make 3D rendering accessible to the everyman whereas previously it had been the exclusive domain of super expensive machines such as that from Silicon Graphics. By the time Nvidia gets round to selling it's 4090 Ti it's going to probably cost north of £2k.
I can't remember how much I paid but Voodoo 1 cost me around £100 and was genuinely revolutionary. These days you can't even get entry level crap for £100 new
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I can't remember how much I paid but Voodoo 1 cost me around £100 and was genuinely revolutionary. These days you can't even get entry level crap for £100 new
.I paid the equivalent of 300€ for a Voodoo2 to complement my Matrox Mistique 220, brilliant cards both of them.The industry has certainly come full circle. When 3D accelerators first showed up they came from companies whose ambition was to make 3D rendering accessible to the everyman whereas previously it had been the exclusive domain of super expensive machines such as that from Silicon Graphics. By the time Nvidia gets round to selling it's 4090 Ti it's going to probably cost north of £2k.
I can't remember how much I paid but Voodoo 1 cost me around £100 and was genuinely revolutionary. These days you can't even get entry level crap for £100 new
A voodoo 2 ?! you only buy them in pairs!!!!
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The industry has certainly come full circle. When 3D accelerators first showed up they came from companies whose ambition was to make 3D rendering accessible to the everyman whereas previously it had been the exclusive domain of super expensive machines such as that from Silicon Graphics. By the time Nvidia gets round to selling it's 4090 Ti it's going to probably cost north of £2k.
I can't remember how much I paid but Voodoo 1 cost me around £100 and was genuinely revolutionary. These days you can't even get entry level crap for £100 new
What I think is worse today is that the price difference between reference cards and aib models is often more than what used to be the cost of a decent gpu. What used to get you a whole gpu now gets you a better cooler and some tacky lights!
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Meterial prices have shot up apparently. It is exponentially more expensive to make coolers these days
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Will be interesting to see this.
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Meterial prices have shot up apparently. It is exponentially more expensive to make coolers these days
Thats may be the case but its not like the referenace card don't have a cooler also. I mean do AIB card coolers really cost £300 more than the reference coolers. Oh wait I forgot, you get an extra pci-e power connector. That much be were the extra cost is
and the extra 3% performance
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Moan moan moan moan, it's all you ****ers know what to do!!!
Thats may be the case but its not like the referenace card don't have a cooler also. I mean do AIB card coolers really cost £300 more than the reference coolers. Oh wait I forgot, you get an extra pci-e power connector. That much be were the extra cost is
Agreed. If I had to guess, the extra cost I think is the way these companies can make a decent profit due to how little Nvidia leave them these days.
Moan moan moan moan, it's all you ****ers know what to do!!!
Well, when the alternative is to slide your trousers down and bend over
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Agreed. If I had to guess, the extra cost I think is the way these companies can make a decent profit due to how little Nvidia leave them these days.
Well, when the alternative is to slide your trousers down and bend over
Exactly, if the other option is to get shafted, im gonna moan!
well if you look at the last 3 months you can already see nvidia sales down a lot. just hold out. let the greedy people sweat. prices will drop.
They let you slide your trousers down? You're one of the lucky ones then.
Haha. Nah, I got my 3080 Ti for £575 and have firmly kept my pants on
It was posted in the CPU subsection of the forums but i thought I'd post it here too as it's just as relevant to GPUs... (AMD earnings call)
And they're doing that in-spite of...
So if anyone is questioning why GPU prices ain't coming down you have your answer, it's because both the main manufactures of GPUs are restricting supply. I guess it's just a coincidence that Nvidia and AMD are both following the same strategy, strategies that wouldn't work if they weren't both doing it.
And they're doing that in-spite of...
You'd be forgiven for thinking they conceded the PC gaming market to Nvidia in favour of the custom SoCs that go into consoles.