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WHy are Nvidia cards still so expensive??
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They aren't, the entire gt200b range has been out of production for several months, meaning they are just selling whats been left around in warehouses.
If you only have 20k chips left and price every 260gt at £110, they'd sell out in a week and then everyone would obviously know Nvidia aren't making chips and have no more stock, and that looks very bad, to OEM's who want to buy them, to investers who dump stock. If you price them at £200, and they become terrible value, no one buys them, but you get to have a few in stock in a lot of stores, purely because very very few people are buying them. However it gives the impression of stock and no problems, which is their only goal.
Nvidia haven't not dropped prices, the prices of most gt200b cores, the 260, 275 and 285gtx's have INCREASED in price despite being soundly spanked.
Lots of Nvidia partners are having trouble, with two having withdrawn from europe completely as they only really went for the mid/high end market here, and they can't sell anything right now.
Thats why you see Galaxy launching a dual gpu 250gts card, its based on a 8800 core basically, its because they've got smeg all else to sell and literally can't buy more 260-285gtx chips to sell.
If you only have 20k chips left and price every 260gt at £110, they'd sell out in a week and then everyone would obviously know Nvidia aren't making chips and have no more stock, and that looks very bad, to OEM's who want to buy them, to investers who dump stock. If you price them at £200, and they become terrible value, no one buys them, but you get to have a few in stock in a lot of stores, purely because very very few people are buying them. However it gives the impression of stock and no problems, which is their only goal.
Nvidia haven't not dropped prices, the prices of most gt200b cores, the 260, 275 and 285gtx's have INCREASED in price despite being soundly spanked.
Lots of Nvidia partners are having trouble, with two having withdrawn from europe completely as they only really went for the mid/high end market here, and they can't sell anything right now.
Thats why you see Galaxy launching a dual gpu 250gts card, its based on a 8800 core basically, its because they've got smeg all else to sell and literally can't buy more 260-285gtx chips to sell.
Because they still sell at these prices, slowly. Once the Nvidia cards are out the old will drop.
Plenty of people will still buy a Nvidia card at current prices. At the ATI 5XXX launch in october I picked up a 260 at a good price because I will never touch ATI linux drivers with a barge pole. Buying an ATI card for gmaing would have meant I would have had to buy 2nd Nvidia card for linux desktop use.
You will find lots of similar purchases. Our lab has purchase a fair few 260-285 cards in the last month to get Nvidia linux drivers, to test PhysX in our simulator and to test CUDA for scientific purposes. Our University might be buying hundred of the new Fermi Tesla boxes.
Plenty of people will still buy a Nvidia card at current prices. At the ATI 5XXX launch in october I picked up a 260 at a good price because I will never touch ATI linux drivers with a barge pole. Buying an ATI card for gmaing would have meant I would have had to buy 2nd Nvidia card for linux desktop use.
You will find lots of similar purchases. Our lab has purchase a fair few 260-285 cards in the last month to get Nvidia linux drivers, to test PhysX in our simulator and to test CUDA for scientific purposes. Our University might be buying hundred of the new Fermi Tesla boxes.
Thats the problem. If they cut prices they have to sell them at a loss, because Nvidia margins are extremely tight. It's cheaper for Nvidia to sell a handful of cards for a small profit than take a huge loss.
No, you just won't be able to buy any.
Maybe the op might be a consumer / gamer? What's that got to do with his situation?
Edit: Don't forget to factor in the cost of a new nuclear power station as well.
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It has everything to do with the OP's question. The card can still be sold at high prices because some people still have a need for them.
PS: we have 2 nuclear fusion reactors on campus*
*unfortunately they require more energy to run than they produce. Coincidently, it is the nuclear physics department which may be purchasing 100-200 Fermi Tesla units.
Same here, just fancied trying one out but will buy a longer term very high end card in a couple or few months.
Ok Doc, again though slightly missing the point. Nvidia don't care if people don't buy them as they are EOL'd and only sitting there to give the illusion they are not EOL'd. Your purchase of a few 260/285's are a drop in the ocean in terms of revenue.
Damn! now some poor kid's got to go search the darkest depths of the warehouse to replenish the GPU's you mercilessly purchased, shame on you
.And guess what? A similar formula's been used for GF100! Ever heard of 3DFX?
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When I bought my gtx280 OC2 (648MHz version) this time last year I got it
for 218 quid , no way in hell is it worth anymore than that back then
and that was a year ago
Nvidia is really trying to sabotage themselves big time , must be retards running
that company
for 218 quid , no way in hell is it worth anymore than that back then
and that was a year ago
Nvidia is really trying to sabotage themselves big time , must be retards running
that company
And for a second there I thought you had solved fusion. [/sarcasm]
Well............. 'The future is Fusion'
lol...
NVidia cards are still faster than ATI cards in almost everything except games and benchmarks.
I know that people who play games don't care about CUDA, but it's a very clever piece of work and it helps people solve problems much faster than almost anything else out there. That's why people like me who want to use their graphics cards as computers are still buying NVidia and even at £400 a card the GTX295 is still worth buying in my economic model.
For games and e-peen, get an ATI card for sure, but for sheer calculating horsepower, NVidia CUDA is the way.
I know that people who play games don't care about CUDA, but it's a very clever piece of work and it helps people solve problems much faster than almost anything else out there. That's why people like me who want to use their graphics cards as computers are still buying NVidia and even at £400 a card the GTX295 is still worth buying in my economic model.
For games and e-peen, get an ATI card for sure, but for sheer calculating horsepower, NVidia CUDA is the way.