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Gamers are in heaven right now. Used 30-series cards are cheap as dirt, keeping the pressure on Intel/AMD/Apple to price their GPUs competitively. The 40-series
by smoldesu 4y ago
Gamers are in heaven right now. Used 30-series cards are cheap as dirt, keeping the pressure on Intel/AMD/Apple to price their GPUs competitively. The 40-series cards are a hedged bet against anything their competitors can develop - manufactured at great cost on TSMC's 4nm node and priced out-of-reach for most users. Still, it's clear that Nvidia isn't holding out their best stuff, just charging exorbitant amounts for it.
- layoric 4y agoWhere are these cheap as dirt 30 series? A 10gb 3080 is still over $500 usd used ($750 aud) when I’ve looked. When did secondhand GPUs that still cost the same as a brand new PS5 start to be considered cheap?
- my123 4y agoA PS5 is _significantly_ slower than a 3080, it's more RTX 2070 tier.
- layoric 4y agoYes, but it is a complete gaming system. My point is $500 is still a lot of money for a used GPU that is nearly 3 years old. Jut retailed brand new for $699. So yes, prices were crazy over that period for a variety of reasons, but that shouldn’t shift the gaming value proposition so dramatically.
- smoldesu 4y ago> My point is $500 is still a lot of money for a used GPU that is nearly 3 years old. Yeah. It's good hardware. You can get cheaper cards (even cost-competitive options) on PC but Nvidia won't sell them to you. Especially not now that they're got 10 billion dollars on their TSMC tab.
- hkng5994 4y agoSure but the 3080 is a single component while the PS5 includes everything needed to run the game. The way GPU prices have inflated over the past couple generations has been absurd.
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