NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti AIB Card Listed Online for $1,212

[Bwaze]

Yeah, even with 50% generational uplift people generally didn't upgrade every generation. If you waited for almost 100% performance raise after two generations, how many generations is that under new Jensen's Law? 6 or 7? So 12 to 14 years?

 

[Jtuck9]

Yeah, even with 50% generational uplift people generally didn't upgrade every generation. If you waited for almost 100% performance raise after two generations, how many generations is that under new Jensen's Law? 6 or 7? So 12 to 14 years?

All about raising that floor so we can all reach the heavens!

And RTX 20-series and 30-series GPUs benefit most.

RTX Mega Geometry in Alan Wake 2 - improved, faster, more efficient ray tracing

What is RTX Mega Geometry and how does it benefit Alan Wake 2? Digital Foundry reports.

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[mikesg]

1- The question is "Do I want to run this new game at 1080p low, or 1440p low?" Yes/No. No = new card.

2- All of those 3060s and 4060s are bought by internet cafes, and are good 1080p cards for 15-25 year olds with no income.

3- The 5070 Ti is as good as a 9070 XT. If you're a retailer, would you stock a 5070/Ti at all, if it's twice the price of it's competitor.

 

[loracle706]

Compagnies of thieves !!

 

[Random_User]

We already know gamers will fail that test.


Lets be real though people in 2025 no longer think 1000 usd is a lot for a graphics card. 2 years of shortages and then a generally poorly priced generation have reconditioned people. The 5080 was meh AF and even the 1500+ models evaporated instantly which is a joke for that level of performance but people think otherwise I guess in 6 months we will know for sure.

The lack of any real competition doesn't help nobody other than the die hard red Kool-aid drinkers find a slightly worse amd card for a slight a discount appealing.

Hopefully the 9070 series brings back some normalcy but I'm not holding my breath.

This, and the eternal duopoly game, of bad company, good company, where one hikes the prices to the sky, and then, comes the good company, a saviour, with whoping $50 less. So people accept this, and go buy for these ridiculous prices, thus solidifiying them eternally.

Hopefully that last crypto boom is going to make a lot of people remember the pricing and not dish out €1k+ for a GPU again.

Unfortunatelly, people are not giving any attention. They won't remember, or care. Those who bought for the extortion prices once, will do it again. Those who didn't, either wouldn't, or accept, if they are tired of waiting. Because covid/crypto/AI saga has no ending.

This is only true up to a point. What we're seeing in the GPU market can be attributed to many things, but I don't think "high demand from gamers" fits the facts:

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Only a small subset of "gamers" have been conditioned to accept ludicrously high prices. Those people might be characterized as high-end enthusiasts or simply FOMO victims; take your pick, but most people are just quietly humming along with low-to-mid-range cards from prior generations. The quality of current cutting edge AAA games offers precious little incentive to upgrade hardware at all, these days. Unless you're in love with benchmarking, that is--and I'm not judging; I've been there myself.

Unfortunately, these prices cascade down onto the lowest end SKUs as well. At least here, not only the scalpers, but the official distributors and sellers, are not ashamed to set the price, not by the actual price, plus the additional cost for shipment and customs, taxes... But by the virtual "value" and brand name. This was particularly acute, during the crypto, when the cards price was set, by how much the hash rate it had. By the official stores, and these prices never came down since. Now same happens for the AI, because all GPU vendors, decided to stuff the NPU/"AI" compute blocks into every f SKU, in order to inflate the price themselves.