Nvidia is mulling an earlier release of its next generation of consumer graphics cards, the RTX 5000 Blackwell line up, pushing it up to the fourth quarter...
I dont understand the VRAM cuts.... The RAM fabs have been cutting production because of low prices
I would love more VRAM so that i can have a GPU that can do a bit of gaming and dabble in some AI stuff. 100% agree i'd pay for more VRAM instead of horsepower
More memory means you can do real work with it, and enterprise AI training is a money printer that they'd be scavenging the shit out of with cards that are closer substitutes.
But then you can do work with it, and that's where the real money is at.
They should all be shipping with 32GB now... AMD is at least seeing the light by releasing some 24gb cards under $1k
Really hope Intel's next generation of GPU silicon makes it a more realistic substitute - that would actually spice things up a lot, you basically won't see real competition again until nVidia's AI training dominance is in someone's crosshairs
Would it really be unexpected? They've blatantly shown how they want to milk us for every little, incremental improvement that barely qualifies as a sidegrade sometimes.
What sucks is the 4090 is an amazing GPU. It's priced for how it performs (top dog bar none). It's the lower end cards that are the problem. When a lower end card is a worse value per dollar than the flagship then something is horrendously wrong.
This. The 4090 absolutely crushes this generation of cards, hands down. And while irs expensive, it also feels like a "pay more get more" type deal. Even just dropping down to the 4080, it starts to raise questions about the price. It's barely a step over the 3090 and 3080, but gets priced as if it's hitting alongside the 4090
I've yet to encounter a game my 2080s couldn't run at 144hz max graphics... Why are we still pumping out $800-1200 gpus when there's nothing requiring that amount of power?
Recently upgraded both CPU and GPU for better VR performance. Before this my 3070 was struggling a bit with cyberpunk on the 4k TV. There's also productivity and AI stuff people deal with these days.
There's plenty of needs that require more and more power.
I don't get this argument at all. Unless you're buying gpus based on their name (xx80, xx70 etc), 40 series have been consistently cheaper than 30 series at any performance level. Nobody's going to think "$850 for a 4070ti is too much" and buy a 3090ti for $1500 instead.