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Am I a bad person for wishing the AI bubble would burst already so Nvidia would go back to allocating their capacity towards affordable consumer GPUs? ChatGPT

Am I a bad person for wishing the AI bubble would burst already so Nvidia would go back to allocating their capacity towards affordable consumer GPUs? ChatGPT is cool, but not cool enough for me to be OK with the ridiculous prices Nvidia can get away with on GPUs nowadays. Consumer GPU sales are at the lowest point they've been in decades, but Nvidia doesn't care. Their profits are higher than ever because everyone and their dog is paying out the nose to build up their AI nonsense.

verall 3y ago
Used 1080 ti's are going for less then $200 right now and can do solid 1080p gaming and light 1440p gaming, if you don't care about raytracing and DLSS and etc. If you do care about those things, then you can pay for them by buying a 3000 or 4000 series card. They're a bit more expensive.
- babypuncher 3y ago
  I have a 3080, I paid MSRP ($699) for it in 2020 because I got lucky. It will last me a while, but I'm dreading seeing the 5080 next year and having to pay an MSRP that is twice that for the same class of product. I don't think Pascal cards will be relevant for AAA games much longer now that AAA games are starting to skip last-gen consoles. Ubisoft showed of their Avatar and Star Wars games this week, and both are shipping with ray-traced global illumination.
pmoriarty 3y ago
Strong demand for faster and more capable GPU's is the best thing that can happen for GPU prices in the long run. It'll incentive GPU development, and the more new/more-capable GPU models come out, the cheaper older/less-capable models will get. We've seen this cycle again and again with all sorts of computer hardware, from hard drives to monitors, CPU's, to memory, to graphics cards themselves. With some notable exceptions, the power and capacity of most hardware consumers can afford today dwarfs what was affordable a decade or two ago. The same will happen to GPUs if demand remains high. So bring it on!

verall 3y ago

Used 1080 ti's are going for less then $200 right now and can do solid 1080p gaming and light 1440p gaming, if you don't care about raytracing and DLSS and etc. If you do care about those things, then you can pay for them by buying a 3000 or 4000 series card. They're a bit more expensive.

babypuncher 3y ago
I have a 3080, I paid MSRP ($699) for it in 2020 because I got lucky. It will last me a while, but I'm dreading seeing the 5080 next year and having to pay an MSRP that is twice that for the same class of product. I don't think Pascal cards will be relevant for AAA games much longer now that AAA games are starting to skip last-gen consoles. Ubisoft showed of their Avatar and Star Wars games this week, and both are shipping with ray-traced global illumination.

pmoriarty 3y ago

Strong demand for faster and more capable GPU's is the best thing that can happen for GPU prices in the long run. It'll incentive GPU development, and the more new/more-capable GPU models come out, the cheaper older/less-capable models will get. We've seen this cycle again and again with all sorts of computer hardware, from hard drives to monitors, CPU's, to memory, to graphics cards themselves. With some notable exceptions, the power and capacity of most hardware consumers can afford today dwarfs what was affordable a decade or two ago. The same will happen to GPUs if demand remains high. So bring it on!