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NV saw the profits it made from the shortages of the last mining boom, and determined that it was better to make a much higher profit even at the cost of shippi
by wing-_-nuts 4y ago
NV saw the profits it made from the shortages of the last mining boom, and determined that it was better to make a much higher profit even at the cost of shipping fewer units. They went full bore on the 'costs and tdp don't matter'. They saw that people were willing to pay any price for cards that were 5% faster at a higher power draw.
Only, the mining boom is over, there are a mountain of 3000 series cards floating around out there, and NV is sweating. The flood of used mining cards is going to make this the first good time to buy a GPU in years and no amount of shenanigans with 4000 series cards is going to change that math.
- adolph 4y ago40 years from now someone will make good use of those in a documentary . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone's_Vaults https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone's_Vau...
- johnla 4y agoWhere's the best place to pick up these cheap cards? eBay?
- wing-_-nuts 4y agoebay, fb marketplace, r/hardwareswap
- izacus 4y agoThis sounds like a win for nVidia in any case, since it'll entrench their RTX, CUDA, NVENC and DLSS moats, making them ubiquitous targets for games and driving purchasing decisions in the future. But they'll need to wade out a generation for that - which probably isn't the first time.