I paid $845 after tax for a used 7900XTX back in June 2023 to max out my 5800X3D system. I figured by the time I could afford a 5090-class GPU that would make a bottleneck out of my 5800X3D I might be able to skip DDR5 completely. Now I'm unsure if 5090-class performance will ever be available for less than $1k.
Looks at data:
AMD GPUs are 20% above MSRP.
AMD GPUs have nearly always been 10-30% above MSRP during the past 18 months.
Alternative title: NVIDIA GPU prices rise slightly because GDDR7 expensive.
The account that posted this is an ai powered unmarked reposting bot so they’re actively making this problem worse.
If you give money to NVidia you’re approving of their business practises.
Talked to an autistic student today. PC specs are a great interest of his. I told him how a bit more than 10 years ago I was building a PC and didn't want to pay 300€ for a gtx 970 because that was just too much money for a GPU. Got an R9 280X instead because that was a bit over 200€. My entire build cost me 800€ back then. Good times.
One crypto mania and an AI bubble later and you'd be happy to get a midrange GPU for 600 bucks and you'd suck some dicks behind a dumpster to get 32GB of DDR5 RAM.
I spent around 1100 Euros on a build back then. I thought it was stupidly expensive at the time but it was fairly close to a top-tier system. It had a i7 6700k, a GTX1080 and 32GBs of RAM. I replaced it at the beginning of last year (thank god for the timing) and gave the parts to a friend who still uses it every day. The 1100 Euros turned out to be an insane value after all.
You could get 128 GB of RAM for what 32 costs now. It’s wild.
"32GB is 32GB" is the new "20 bucks is 20 bucks"?
So, anyone got any of those "28% above MSRP" priced GPUs?
More like how do I buy a GPU at MRSP?
RTX 5090 doing all kinds of exploding!
Note, this is above "launch MSRP" which for the latest gen already had years of crypto and the start of AI pricing baked in.
MSRP apparently means "manufacturers suggested retail price", which is kind of a bizarre thing to expect readers to know.
My 10 year old knows what it means. Fun times of the "Curse of Knowledge"
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