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For over a month the local microcenter has had hundreds of RTX 3xxx series GPUs, and that's just from the public numbers, which are capped at quantity 25. Nobo
by KennyBlanken 4y ago
For over a month the local microcenter has had hundreds of RTX 3xxx series GPUs, and that's just from the public numbers, which are capped at quantity 25.
Nobody is buying these cards. One, inflation. Two, everyone who really wanted them already bought. Three, people have realized that they can just be careful about graphics quality settings and save themselves hundreds of dollars.
The newer cards are a shitty deal, frankly, at the low end. A new 3060 retail costs twice as much as a used 1070 ti that will perform nearly identically, even have nearly the same power draw (you really have to hand it to NVIDIA to have nearly the same performance per watt with a half decade spread.)
Is DLSS nice? Yeah. Is RTX pretty? Yeah. Is it twice the cost nice/pretty? Nope?
NVIDIA is going to have to trickle the 4000 series cards out so slowly if they want to have any hope of not severely boning their resellers. My guess is that we'll see 4080's first to get the whales, then 4090's to get the whales again...and then the lower cards announced but released from storage in very, very small quantities.
- jms703 4y agoFour, some people gave up trying.
- kfarr 4y agoTrue that. I used to upgrade graphics cards every few years, now I've had mine for about 6 or 7 can't even remember. Can't even remember the model, some Nvidia thing. But it plays 90% of games fine, and that's more than a lifetime worth of entertainment. I'll upgrade when my rig dies someday
- copperx 4y agoI'm just hoping 1050TIs become affordable again so I can build a really cheap gaming PC.
- epakai 4y agoThe cards I've been watching (radeon pro wx 2100/4100, and RX 400/500 series) are just hitting 2 years ago prices on the used market. They were already used then. I'm just hoping prices settle to something acceptable by the end of the year. It's been crazy watching the price go up for these old models though.
- cyber_kinetist 4y agoI checked to see if you claims were true (3060 = 1070ti)… and you’re absolutely right! https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1070-Ti/4105vs3943 https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-vs-Nvi... Yeah, there doesn’t seem to be any good reason to upgrade if you aren’t aiming for the highest specs (which is most people). Even ignoring the crypto craze, there wasn’t really that much tangible advance in GPU specs (and even when it did it traded off in terms of size, power consumption, and heat.) Before you were able to buy a GTX 970 for $400 to play all the latest games at the best options and that was enough… and even to this day it’s still a solid entry-level GPU.