You can subscribe to our GeForce NOW service to rent a top of the line card through our cloud service for the low low price of 11€$£ or 22€$£ a month with *almost no restrictions.
*Except for all the restrictions.
The hardcore and frequent gamers won’t like it but it was never really for them.
And the competition on the GPU market is soft to say the least.
Damn nvidia
Maybe consumer electronics will move backwards by a process node or two?
I wonder if a bunch of consumer electronics will move back to something like 12 nm for a while? Seems like there's a lot of capacity in that range. Zen 2 wasn't so bad, right?
Ram is 4-5x the price of a year ago.
Is AI going to kill the consumer computer industry?
Or maybe assuming the trend holds in the longer term it could mean that consumers will move downstream of datacenters. Anyone who wants a GPU rocking 3 to 5 year old recycled enterprise gear.
Even if, the death of the AAA gaming is nothing I will cry about. Most games don't require anything remotely as performant as 5070.
Just saying that your grudges with AAA games have a blast effect you might not be aware of.
This is a false statement. They’re still producing consumer cards. You can go buy a 5070FE in stock on their web store at MSRP right now. You can buy a discounted 5060 from Best But below MSRP.
They’re changing production priorities for a little while if the rumors are accurate.
RAM prices have always been cyclical and prone to highs and lows. This is an especially high peak but it will pass like everything else.
These predictions that the sky is falling are way too dramatic.
My only small regret is that I decided to build an SFF PC, otherwise I would've gone for 128 GB of RAM instead of just 64. Oh well, ̶6̶4̶0̶ ̶K̶B̶ 64 GB should be enough for most purposes.
I don't necessarily think that everything is going doomer "subscription based cloud streaming"; the economics of these services never made sense, especially for gaming, and there's little reason to believe that the same incentives that led to Nvidia, Crucial, etc wanting out of the consumer hardware business wouldn't also impact that business.
Instead, the future is tightly integrated single-board computers (e.g. Framework Desktop, the new HP keyboard, Mac Mini, RPi, etc). They're easier for consumers to buy. Integrated memory, GPU, and cooling means we can drive higher performance. All of the components getting sourced by one supplier means the whole "X is leaving the consumer market" point is moot, and allows better bulk deals to be negotiated. They're smaller. It allows one company (e.g. Framework) to capture more margin than sharing with ten GPU or memory middle-men who just slap a sports car-looking cooler on whatever they bought from Micron and saying they're a real business.
My lingering hope is that we do see some company succeed who can direct-sell these high-end SBCs to consumers, so if you want to go the route of a custom case and such, you still can. And that we don't lose modular storage. But I've lost all hope that DIY PCs will survive this decade; to be frank, they haven't made economic sense for a while.
I don't think that checks out. The fabs are booked out AFAIU. This is going to hit SoCs (and anything else you can come up with) sooner rather than later because it all depends on the same fabs producing the same silicone at the end of the day. It's just packaged differently.
They left the consumer market due to the price difference. It's not that there aren't middlemen willing to purchase in bulk right now. It's that the OEMs aren't willing to sell at any price because they've already sold their entire future inventory at absurd prices for the next however many months or years.
I assume there will still be at least a few SoCs to choose from but the prices will likely be completely absurd because they will have to match the enterprise price for the components that go into them.
2 very different arguments and not fully clear which you are trying to make.
This. No judgement on any particular use. Just worth a reminder that the most advanced machines every produced make this magic rocks that sit there idle most of the time.
So while the news is not great, I think it is far from any doom and gloom if we are in fact going to be getting more 5060 cards.
As it is the value of the crazy higher speced cards was questionable with most developers targeting console specs anyways. But it does bring to question how this might impact the next generation of consoles and if those will be scaled back.
We will likely be seeing some stagnation of capability for a couple years. Maybe once the bubble pops all the work that went into AI chips can come back to gaming chips and we can have a big leap in capability.
voidfunc•1h ago
Happy I just bought my 5080 before Christmas. Theyre all on borrowed time.
legobmw99•1h ago
ndiddy•36m ago