Zinn
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You don’t have to buy it because big corporations will buy it for AI research. NVIDIA might just stop offering consumer GPUs, regardless of demand, the way things are going with this AI bullshit.No argument from me at all. I also agree that the 4080 isn't a bad GPU from a design and tech standpoint (but it's still a slot.25 too friggin' big, IMO). It's just horribly priced.
nVIDIA has seen what the market would bear during the cryptoboom. Now we all pay the price. Literally. With Jensen's comments about Moore's Law being dead; the era of cheap GPUs are over... Well, then... Why are there roadmaps to transistor feature sizes all the way down to 4 angstroms in the late 2030's? Greed. Sure, chips are going to get more expensive. That's a given. But they haven't (as far as I am aware) become that expensive yet. Until pricing becomes more sane, I'm not buying an nVIDIA GPU new (or any other, for that matter) again. I'm fine with used as long as it has not been damaged or abused. Voting with our wallets is the only way the market will correct itself. If people keep buying, there really is no incentive to change, is there?