• likebudda@reddthat.com
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    5 hours ago

    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.

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    5 hours ago

    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.

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    9 hours ago

    If you give money to NVidia you’re approving of their business practises.

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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      11 hours ago

      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.

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    12 hours ago

    Note, this is above “launch MSRP” which for the latest gen already had years of crypto and the start of AI pricing baked in.

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    11 hours ago

    MSRP apparently means “manufacturers suggested retail price”, which is kind of a bizarre thing to expect readers to know.