Xtx for 900$ last year is a helluva good deal. You’re not missing out, with the added bonus you can load some hefty LLMs with that massive VRAM for consumer GPU standards, while paying a fraction of the only other worthy competitor, the 4090. Kudos
I can see some 5080s in the same picture. They can gtfo with those ridiculous prices. I got my 9070xt at close to MSRP, little more than 1/3 of local 5080 prices for 85-90% of the performance (and day one support for open source drivers…)
Good luck trying this within the EU.
I hope not, i seriously hope not…
Ty both.
Does anyone have a ZA/UM abridged (referenced) story including the less savory parts so one can make up its own mind rather than defaulting to the typical kneejerk reaction and joining the online circlejerk.
The only stories I’ve seen make it seem like there was a corporate rug pull but it was a while ago and I’d rather be more informed before writing them off entirely.
Better Tencent than microsoft.
Single boot to steamOS to avoid MS telemetry ;)
Absolutely. Jensen is so rich, if he wanted to spend his fortune, he couldn’t, within the habitual human lifespan.
All that success because in the late naughties and early 10s NVIDIA (at least in EU) were giving away free GPUs to universities and giving grants on the condition researchers would use CUDA. Same with developers, they had two engineering teams in East Europe that would serve as outsoucing for code to cheapen development of games as a way to promote NVIDIA’s software “optimisations”. Most TWIMTBP games of that era, Bryan Rizzo’s time, have some sort of competing HW defeat device. They were so successful that their modern GPUs, Blackwell, can barely run some of their old games…
I find it amusing that the company that is promoting brute force calculation of ray trajectories rather than using optimised code (competition defeat device) calls native rendering “brute force”. Meanwhile some of the best games of the past decade run on potato powered chips.
It would be hilarious if sony was ok with Steam OS though. Can you imagine MS selling consoles at a loss only for people to turn around and abandon their cancerous telemetry nightmare to use open source instead of trash windows. That would be so good!
If they are affordable, yes, otherwise, no. The 9070 at MSRP or up to ~10% is likely the best value of the last 4y. There has recently been a drop in EU and prices hit MSRP again in several outlets.
Same experience with my old bequiet, got SF now for a few years from Corsair, stellar. Worth every €
MSI separated from AMD GPUs (thx gpp) so they want to promote their own, newer, NV products.
Looking at the quality of their recent releases and the markup they command, not too troubled by this. You’d have to be completely asleep at the wheel to buy an MSI PSU over Seasonic (OEM) or Corsair, Bequiet. The post sale service, at least in EU, is so MUCH better than MSi.
The manchurian candidate was found. Now smash them to bits to scare EA, roblox, epic, bungie, mojang et al into action to reduce their obviously predatory practices.
This is what happens when you reach 1Tn valuation and your talent pool retires at 45-55y old. The schadenfreude is immensely sweet. Sadly, their MO of dropping crums and have the public pay for their SW R&D via universities is still quite functional and bearing fruit at the detriment of open source solutions.
This is genius marketing.
I feel your pain fellow SFF enthusiast. I did my homework this time though, and that’s why I paid a bit above MSRP but it did take a bit of attention and careful planning, including dedication to snatch a fitting model from the claws of the scalpers. All in all I paid roughly 110% MSRP for a nice custom model. Also, the Louqe Raw S1 is just an absolutely amazing sff if you don’t have special requirements for storage space.