GPUs are still overpriced too
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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Because the fuckers realised they can just keep them priced like this and people will still buy them
They literally don’t care if people buy them or not. Overwhelmingly profit is in the server and enterprise areas now.
Some people will still buy at those high prices and they are more than happy to stick with that small slice.
Exactly. Whatever they sell at those prices is good. They just don't care about people who cannot shell out thousands for a gpu.
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Another reason to look forward to the AI bubble popping.
Even assuming it does, it won't be for a good while before it comes through to GPU prices.
Oh for sure. But seeing NVidia's share prices collapse will be soothing in other ways.
The relationship between supply, demand, and price has been fundamentally damaged.
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Always has been.
It always has been. It's just worse now. The haves have always had all the power in a "free market" system.
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You don't get to be worth 5 trillion dollars by giving out discounts...
Yeah sadly. Then sell out to big corpos doing AI and neglect the original audience for your products.
Quite the contrary! They effectively sell their cards at a ~20% discount to a bunch of AI companies by "investing" in the companies for a promise to use that money to buy their cards.
It's as dumb as it sounds and textbook unsustainable economic bubble behavior, but NVidia don't care because more sales = more stonks = more money to "invest" = more sales = more stonks = more yachts for Jensen. So what if it makes 1929 look like a walk in the park, it's not their problem.
I saw a random AI video where guy said to use this model you need 39gb of vram. Like wtf are these ppl running at home?
39 GB is very small, DeepSeek R1 without quantization at full context size needs almost a full TB of RAM/VRAM.
The large models are absolutely massive and you will still find some crazy homelabber that does it at home.
All that RAM for the idiot AI to tell me what I can find on stackoverflow with one startpage search.
No wonder Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company.
I put (regular RAM) 64gb on my home pc, because that was the max my board would take. My old Mac Pro, 96gb because it was the most it could run at max speed, total could have been 128. Both only for 8gb gfx cards. Both because, I might want to open 400 tabs on a browser or something, maybe casual gaming, lol
They're talking about VRAM in a GPU, not motherboard RAM.
Mac has unified RAM. It can use the system RAM as vRAM. The AI line of AMD processors can kind of due that too. Granted these aren't as fast as dedicated GPUs, but they're the most affordable way to get huge amounts of vRAM.
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Crypto bros and AI bros are the same people. They moved from one scam to another
true, but i still think AI had a worse impact.
They're really finding ways to outdo themselves each time.
Crypto is still close to all time highs
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Hopefully motivates game developers to optimize their softwHAHAHA oh gods I can't say that with a straight face
RT has been a plague. The cope going from "4K native 144Hz only bro, potato consoles just can't keep up" to "just use DLSS to bullshit as many pixels as possible" has been unreal.
It is rather expensive for high end hardware these days. Might get brotato, low requirements and local coop. Just got a couple of controllers so looking for good local coop games, especially good if they are cheap indie games.
I’m old enough to remember the hard drive shortages.
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Meanwhile, I'm having a blast on retro and 2D indie games that play just fine on my secondhand $200 Thinkpad with integrated graphics.
Jokes on you, I'm upgrading my IBM x31. No one in their right mind wants DDR pc2100 ram.
And there was the HDD shortage, the CPU shortage, and I’m sure we’ll see some variant repeat of any of them again.
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I'm so thankful that I didn't buy into the 3000 series hype and just bought a 2060 Super the moment one became available at MSRP after the 3000s launched. Everyone said it was a waste paying that price for less performance, but I had a card and they still didn't 4 months later.
I'd say that the way around the shortages is to just not go for the latest and greatest new hardware, but that's not really helpful for GPUs anymore anyway. Even the desirable last gen cards are still going for scalper prices.
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Is there a place I can sell my old ram sticks that are perfectly fine? I just upgraded.
Ebay?
I'm in the same boat and considering this.
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Someone is too young or forgot the 2016 DRAM price fixing by Samsung, Hynix, and Micron, causing prices to skyrocket. Prices doubled or even tripled until 2018.
I paid a new 4TB seagate 99€ in 2022, now it's 139€.
Prices used to go down 😐
And tariffs!
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