The prices here are not indicative of the market at all. They're a single sample from the most egregious offender.
More data points for a 5090 Founders
- Amazon $4,481
- StockX $3,447
- eBay $3,500-$4,000
[0] https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=gra16_512&view=gallery&pg=1&v=e...
Also listing Coca Cola in the team section, without indication of a partnership or investment - likely as a joke - is not a smart move.
It looks like - and probably is - a random assortment of projects from a single person, the "branding" is simply not reflecting this.
I am more into AMD cards than anything, I wish this site also tracked the prices of AMD aswell.
I think this expectation is already priced in. I invested when I saw LLMs kicking off with no reflection in the NVIDIA share price and made 10x when the market caught up.
Now with tariff uncertainty and trump signalling to China (via Russia) that there would be no repercussions for invading Taiwan I’m less convinced there is growth there, but the possibility of massive loss. In the days of meme stocks this might not matter of course.
Note that an invasion of Taiwan would have huge implications everywhere but any company that needs leading edge semiconductors to directly sell their products would be screwed more than others.
[1]: https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/27/he-who-can-pay-top-d...
[2]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-clears-samsungs-hb...
A Macbook or Mac Mini with 32GB as a whole system is now cheaper than a 24GB Nvidia card.
GPUs targeting more RAM-hungry applications exist, but they’re quite a bit more expensive, so people who play games buy gaming GPUs while people who need more VRAM buy cards targeting that application.
Why would a consumer want to pay for 40GB of VRAM if 12GB will do everything they need?
Most consumers buy GPUs to play videogames. Recently, nVidia launched two flavors of 5060 Ti consumer GPU with 8GB and 16GB memory, the cards are otherwise identical.
Apparently, the 8GB version is only good for 1080p resolution with no DLSS. In many games, the difference between these versions is very substantial. The article says 8GB version is deprecated right at launch: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-with-...
I sure don't want a world where we only have 32GB 5090s and nVidia reaching farther down the price-vs-performance curve to offer consumers a more affordable (but lower performing) choice seems like a good, rather than a bad, thing to me. (I genuinely don't see the controversy here.)
nVidia says the launch prices for them are $400 and $500, respectively.
> seems like a good, rather than a bad, thing to me
The bad thing is the most affordable current generation card capable of playing modern videogames in decent quality now costs $500. That’s too expensive for most consumers I’m afraid.
Steam hardware survey says 7 out of 10 most popular cards are nVidia [234]060 which were sold for around $300. Despite most of them also have 8GB VRAM, when consumers bought these cards a few years ago, 8 GB was good enough for videogames released at that time.
Legacy Blu-Ray discs maxed out at 1080p30. Most people would consider those discs to be "decent quality" (or more realistically even "high quality") video, and a $400 video card is well capable of playing modern games at (or even above) that resolution and framerate. The entry-level 5060 cards are also good enough for video games released at this time, in either memory trim.
The 8GB version struggles in 1440p, and only delivers playable framerates in 1080p with some combination of in-game settings. Here’s the original article: https://www.techspot.com/review/2980-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060...
I agree with the author: that level of performance for $400 is inadequate. BTW, I remember 10 years ago I bought nVidia 960 for about $200. For the next couple years, the performance stayed pretty good even for newly released games.
An earthquake three months ago, production issues, and insatiable demand mean that every single GDDR/HBM chip being made at factories already operating at maximum capacity has been sold to a waiting customer.
If Nvidia wanted to double the amount of VRAM on their products, the only thing that would happen is the supply of finished products would be halved.
No amount of money can fix it, only time.
1. https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/index.html 2. https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/instinct/mi300....
They have shit data since Amazon doesn't really sell most of those cards and they do no validation
Neat: when clicking on the name, I would like to be redirected to Amazon. The link on the far right was hard to find. :)
AMD has some really interesting things on the drawing board, and Apple should definitely be in the mix.