Buy 800 of those or buy a house. Pick.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
They’re not even pretending to be affordable any more.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Masamune@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can’t do either of those. I chose Option C, a hospital visit.
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Look at money bags over here. He can go to the HoSpItAl.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Unfortunately, that’s the anti-scalper countermeasure. Crippling their crypto mining potential didn’t impact scalping very much, so they increased the price with the RTX 40 series. The RTX 40s were much easier to find than the RTX 30s were, so here we are for the RTX 50s. They’re already on the edge of what people will pay, so they’re less attractive to scalpers. We’ll probably see an initial wave of scalped 3090s for $3500-$4000, then it will drop off after a few months and the market will mostly have un-scalped ones with fancy coolers for $2200-$2500 from Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.
b34k@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The switch from proof of work to proof of stake in ETH right before the 40 series launch was the primary driver of the increased availability.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The existence of scalpers means demand exceeds supply. Pricing them this high is a countermeasures against scalpers…in that Nvidia wants to make the money that scalpers would have made .
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Not really a countermeasure, but the scalping certainly proved that there is a lot of people willing to buy their stuff at high prices.
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Nvidia is just doing what every monopoly does, and AMD is just playing into it like they did on CPUs with Intel. They’ll keep competing for price performance for a few years then drop something that drops them back on top (or at least near it).