Nearly £3,000 for a graphics card. Jesus fucking Christ.
While I’m not thinking in £, I still feel this is kinda ridiculous.
This makes intel battle mage look like a folk hero at this point… one nvidia 5090 or ten battle mage b580s…
for now. Intel will immediately sky rocket their prices the moment they get close to market dominance.
AMD is the true hero IMo
None of them are true heroes.
Best option for consumers would be ~10 GPU design firms with ~10 semiconductors fabs all fighting for every minuscule fraction of gross margin percentage point.
I do recognize that there are legitimate barriers to entry and economies of scale factors at play. But that being said, the fact that the patents relevant to the Nvidia 3080 (released in 2020) will expire in ~2040 and the copyright for the last GeForce4 Ti 4600 (released in 2002) driver expire in ~2081 suggests that there are ways to improve competition.
AMD pulled the same shit with ryzen
Even higher than earlier [US style, list] price leaks suggested; $1,900 for 5090 and ~$1,100 for 6080.
Even accounting for inclusion of taxes (as is normal in much of the world), Nvidia seems to be making the most of their monopoly-like position.
This wccftech report (based on a Youtuber) suggests the 5080 will be $1,550 with US style prices.
*5080
Just built an AMD rig with a 7800 xt for 1100 dollars. I could build two of these for less than that price.
