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Weird post seemingly written by an intern during lunch. The pictures of "lines" scream desperate, "see! people want our cards!". I think nvidia is in deep troub

Weird post seemingly written by an intern during lunch. The pictures of "lines" scream desperate, "see! people want our cards!". I think nvidia is in deep trouble.

waking_at_night 4y ago
Agreed. This post is really weird, especially coming from a multi-billion company. Perhaps I'm too used to corpo-speak, but this coming from the opposite end does feel kinda fishy.
ok123456 4y ago
The GPU cost too damn high.
- cheschire 4y ago
  Look at what the predecessors cost. I chose the higher 3080 12GB for comparison. 1080 $700 2016 2080 $800 2018 3080 $800 2020 4080 $1200 2022 I'm sure there's some justification about why it's 50% increase in price, but if it's a necessary increase then even releasing just seems tone deaf given the state of the world right now. 10 series - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-gtx-1080/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-gtx-1080/ 20 series - https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/10-years-in-the-making-nvidia-brings-real-time-ray-tracing-to-gamers-with-geforce-rtx https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/10-years-in-the-making-nv... 30 series - https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-delivers-greatest-ever-generational-leap-in-performance-with-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-delivers-greatest-... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_30_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_30_series 40 series - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/rtx-4080/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-serie...
  - dylan604 4y ago
    Clearly, they're making up for the money left on the table for not increasing the price from 2080->3080.
    - ErneX 4y ago
      2080 is when they introduced RT and the card performed in raster gfx about the same as the 1080. And support for RT was coming in the future so it kind of makes sense it was priced the same.
  - izacus 4y ago
    Now put the performance numbers next to them.
dymk 4y ago
That's what stuck out to me as well. This legitimately reads like it's by someone who's never written marketing copy. And what the heck is with the last picture of the box buckled into a desk chair?
- zanecodes 4y ago
  It's a car seat, not a desk chair.
  - dylan604 4y ago
    Oh, but what an amazing desk chair could be! Heated seat! Motorized recline, height, position adjustments! Seatbelts for those intense coding sessions (or, more realistically, desk chair races). Hell, managers will love them too as they already have the butt-in-seat sensors to know if their underlings are "working"
- maxsilver 4y ago
  > And what the heck is with the last picture of the box buckled into a desk chair? The blog post reads like an Intern who is/was a Redditor wrote it. The "GPU buckled into a seatbelt" is an old-but-common PC Builder Meme/Tradition online (particularly Reddit). https://www.google.com/search?q=gpu+seatbelt&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=gpu+seatbelt&tbm=isch https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4skdlg https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4skdlg https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4pt9nl https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4pt9nl https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/kmglh6 https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/kmglh6
protomyth 4y ago
A funny point is that the line depicted in the second picture down (Micro Center - Burlington) is not exactly unique to an NVIDIA launch. Micro Center often has long lines for a variety of manufactures new parts. That place is basically the biggest outlet in the area for the DIY crowd.
- dtjohnnymonkey 4y ago
  I think I recognized the other line as Micro Center in Tustin CA

Weird post seemingly written by an intern during lunch. The pictures of "lines" scream desperate, "see! people want our cards!". I think nvidia is in deep trouble.

waking_at_night 4y ago

Agreed. This post is really weird, especially coming from a multi-billion company. Perhaps I'm too used to corpo-speak, but this coming from the opposite end does feel kinda fishy.

ok123456 4y ago

The GPU cost too damn high.

cheschire 4y ago
Look at what the predecessors cost. I chose the higher 3080 12GB for comparison. 1080 $700 2016 2080 $800 2018 3080 $800 2020 4080 $1200 2022 I'm sure there's some justification about why it's 50% increase in price, but if it's a necessary increase then even releasing just seems tone deaf given the state of the world right now. 10 series - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-gtx-1080/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-gtx-1080/ 20 series - https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/10-years-in-the-making-nvidia-brings-real-time-ray-tracing-to-gamers-with-geforce-rtx https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/10-years-in-the-making-nv... 30 series - https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-delivers-greatest-ever-generational-leap-in-performance-with-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-delivers-greatest-... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_30_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_30_series 40 series - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/rtx-4080/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-serie...
- dylan604 4y ago
  Clearly, they're making up for the money left on the table for not increasing the price from 2080->3080.
  - ErneX 4y ago
    2080 is when they introduced RT and the card performed in raster gfx about the same as the 1080. And support for RT was coming in the future so it kind of makes sense it was priced the same.
- izacus 4y ago
  Now put the performance numbers next to them.

dymk 4y ago

That's what stuck out to me as well. This legitimately reads like it's by someone who's never written marketing copy. And what the heck is with the last picture of the box buckled into a desk chair?

zanecodes 4y ago
It's a car seat, not a desk chair.
- dylan604 4y ago
  Oh, but what an amazing desk chair could be! Heated seat! Motorized recline, height, position adjustments! Seatbelts for those intense coding sessions (or, more realistically, desk chair races). Hell, managers will love them too as they already have the butt-in-seat sensors to know if their underlings are "working"
maxsilver 4y ago
> And what the heck is with the last picture of the box buckled into a desk chair? The blog post reads like an Intern who is/was a Redditor wrote it. The "GPU buckled into a seatbelt" is an old-but-common PC Builder Meme/Tradition online (particularly Reddit). https://www.google.com/search?q=gpu+seatbelt&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=gpu+seatbelt&tbm=isch https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4skdlg https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4skdlg https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4pt9nl https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4pt9nl https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/kmglh6 https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/kmglh6

protomyth 4y ago

A funny point is that the line depicted in the second picture down (Micro Center - Burlington) is not exactly unique to an NVIDIA launch. Micro Center often has long lines for a variety of manufactures new parts. That place is basically the biggest outlet in the area for the DIY crowd.

dtjohnnymonkey 4y ago
I think I recognized the other line as Micro Center in Tustin CA