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NVIDIA Plans GeForce RTX 5080 "Blackwell" Availability on January 21, Right After CES Announcement

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I wouldn't call that "only" as it's a huge deal from a marketing perspective. xx80 class had at least some kind of competition dating back to ATI tech times. The way I see it complete lack of competition at the top is giving Nvidia a status of an undisputed dGPU market champion and with that comes a price premium. They can easily charge 100 maybe even 200 bucks more for every tier and still outsell competition like 5:1 as average Joe looks at what's the best first and then what from that brand can he/she actually afford, disregarding other options on the market unfortunately.
And will

There's not much to be proud about in Radeon division imho. I've been buying ATI products since early 1990ies and it was all downhill once AMD aquired the company especially once old dev ATI team was gone.
That was true yesterday but not today. AMD software is that good.
 
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