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GPU prices insanity continues
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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    And it is not becoming better.

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  • DrDaveDrDave

    Been looking for a new card for like six months, it's insane.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @DrDave

    It is capitalism at its best - even if something is against society needs but it bring profits to scammers - it will be promoted and supported and huge resources will be redirected on this.

    My current view is that it is scheme to keep lot of newly printed money and later introduce energy rationing.

  • markr041markr041

    I am confused. Who is "promoting" this? How does NVidia profit from the shortages, if eBay "scammers" are charging the high prices?

    And, yes, it is capitalism at its best - if the shortages are real (and eBay scammers do not control supply, right?), then it allows those who have a very high demand for those cards to purchase them. Those "looking for a card for six months" can buy the card now from an eBay "scammer," if it is that valuable to them. I guess it is not so valuable to have them now...

    And, anyway, just buy a MacBook Pro with an M1pro or max chip. Might perform better (using DaVinci Resolve) than any of those cards. Of course, Apple, another "scammer," profits. How dare they charge so much? Outrageous!

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @markr041

    eBay scammers now get almost nothing.

    How does NVidia profit from the shortages,

    It is largest GPU manufacturers paired with Nvidia who directly sell big batches of GPUs to miners, not to individuals, but to companies.

    And, anyway, just buy a MacBook Pro with an M1pro or max chip. Might perform better (using DaVinci Resolve) than any of those cards. Of course, Apple, another "scammer," profits. How dare they charge so much? Outrageous!

    Apple margins are record, you can't properly repair their stuff with proper parts (by design!), so in social terms it is criminal gang who redistributes existing social value. If you add huge Apple stocks scam - it will be much harder crime.

    M1 Max is no competition to good desktop GPUs, it is small shared memory thingy made to compete with some restricted mobile chipsets. But its media engines are nice if you work with high res Prores related formats.

  • markr041markr041

    "Good desktop" gpu's, cpu's and RAM cost a lot more than Apple M1 X MacBooks, right? And their performance with DaVinci Resolve is not a lot better, is it? For RAW, or H265, or H264, or ProRes RAW.

    What exactly is the "scam? Selling to data miners is not a scam, if they have the highest return on high-end graphics performance. Selling scarce commodities at a high price by eBayer's is not a scam. You are just throwing a word around, Trump-like ("the election is a scam"). And bringing in the repair issue is just argument deflection.

    Where is the fraud?

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    "Good desktop" gpu's, cpu's and RAM cost a lot more than Apple M1 X MacBooks, right? And their performance with DaVinci Resolve is not a lot better, is it? For RAW, or H265, or H264, or ProRes RAW.

    No, they cost much less in long time, and you can mine using them :-) Even RTX 3090 returned its value in few months.

    Their performance is better, for top cards much better.

    What exactly is the "scam?

    Stock scam is carefully organized crime where media, Apple, analysts and lot more people are participating, presently used to park excess funds.

    Thing is - housing market has its limits. Now it is top tech stocks that are adding "wealth" and keep credit mill running. It is like absurd machine. It is used to exponentially increase money supply but it is also used to park lot of this new money.

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