Frank Burns
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Razer Core Thunderbolt 3 eGFX Chassis: $499/$399, AMD & NVIDIA, Shipping In April
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So basically, Nvidia slipped a few extra dollars to Razer to overcharge for this thing.
Nvidia has NOTHING to gain by people being able to buy high-powered affordable graphics solutions that compete with their highly profitable mobile GPUs.
Honestly I don't think its overcharged, and this is way:
Just to finish, I don't believe the pricing has anything to do with Nvidea or AMD for that matter.
- Its a new ip
- only its own laptops are compatible (for now)
- Is obvious a lot of effort went into its development
- Its the only one in the market (msi has one in development I believe)
The question I ask myself is this: Nvidia makes MOST of its money from mobile graphics. Its the market leader in (discrete) mobile graphics, and it is in a total dominance in the laptop high-end segment. My question is this: What does Nvidia have to GAIN from allowing users to have a non-nvidia alternative to their mobile graphics chips? Its hard to find a notebook WITHOUT an Nvidia GPU, and those that don't simply have no discrete GPU at all. AMD is doing worse in mobile computing than it is in desktop, and its doing pretty terribly there. Essentially, the mobile GPU market is either A)Nvidia, B)Intel, or C)All of the above.
The most powerful GPUs available to the thin&light segment (the key market for this) are easily outclassed by a $250 desktop video card, and AMD has TONS of options in that price arena. Make no mistake: it was AMD who pushed for this standard. It was AMD who has EVERYTHING to gain from these enclosures, and its Nvidia who has NOTHING to gain... unless it raises the bar-of-entry so high that it changes the product from a way to cheaply add more graphics options to a high-end enthusiast-only luxury item: Where Nvidia dominates. Essentially, after $450, AMD does not compete. the 980 and 980Ti dominate. The Fury is overpriced and the FuryX does not fit. Are you going to spend LESS on the GPU than the enclosure? Of course not!
This price is VERY much engineered to benefit Nvidia, make no mistake.
I'm guessing they're hoping to get more people to buy desktop GPU's as they're more profitable dollar wise. They can sell a laptop with an Nvidia GPU and an add in desktop class GPU. Yeah some people will move over to desktop. But more are likely to get laptops with Nvidia Mobile GPU's along with a desktop GPU. Essentially this will help them sell more Nvidia Products and thus more money.
A GPU enclosure that's more expensive than the GPU.
...umm. I guess...
Yup, when you add in the cost of the PSU, dual thunderbolt chips (remember, this bus is daisy-chain!), motherboard plus slots plus case, it gets to be as expensive as a high-end desktop motherboard plus a high-end PSU plus a case.
And the price goes up even more because of the limited market for these things. Who would have thought?
Just build a desktop and be done with it.
I think they will use something similar to power VR!This is out of left field, but what if PS4.5 used this tech?
Sources: Sony Is Working On A ‘PlayStation 4.5’
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Except it doesn't have dual thunderbolt chips, only 1, this is not a device that is intended to be in the beginning of a daisy chain. The thunderbolt port on it is able to be the power adapter for the blade and blade stealth laptops.