RTX 5080 - premature review - it sucks

[Dragam1337]

Really? Aren't you in the US where essentially the statistics are very similar?

Then again, your country is broke, and living off of debt so I guess debt isn't too much of an issue for you Yanks. Borrow till eternity.

Thing about murica is that equality is drastically less than in canada (and rest the west) - huge difference between rich and poor. So if you live in a rich walled neighbourhood, then i guess it can seem like 5k usd is pocketchange to most people.

Gini coefficient - Wikipedia

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[lexluthermiester]

Nvidias pricing and the scalping has considerably changed that dynamic.

The pandemic and cryptocoin mining changed that, NVidia is just running with it. Is that a good or right thing, no, but they didn't create the condition.

Really? Aren't you in the US where essentially the statistics are very similar?

Depends on where you live. Where I live people are fairly affluent.

Then again, your country is broke, and living off of debt so I guess debt isn't too much of an issue for you Yanks. Borrow till eternity.

We are not opening that conversational can of worms..

 

[sepheronx]

yeah, fair point. We are just getting poorer across the board here. You guys have much more options for wealthy people. Of course this is all off topic now for most part.

Mind you, I usually get cheap computer parts from Americans. In 3 separate cases it was from people who had medical bills to pay. So I'll wait till someone else in the US needs medical treatments before I upgrade. Sucks really for the other individual and I do not wish ill upon anyone.

 

[Caring1]

Again.. if you don't have a card, what are you going to buy?

Why the compulsion to spend?
Be happy with what you have until prices become more realistic.
Even the retailers are scalping.

 

[sepheronx]

The other option I guess is to look at the mid-low end and used GPU market.

RTX 3060 is a solid GPU and really just overall good for 1080p and 1440p. I have a few of them. RTX 3070 used can also be really good for mid 1440p. I know some will disagree because of 8gb but the 8gb limit isn't really all that limiting unless trying to play on high/ultra and that isn't gonna happen with a 3070 anyway or the 3060 with more vram. If you snag a 3080 12gb for decent price then thats awesome. AMD side, the 6800/XT and 6700XT are fantastic still.

Problem is, that isn't new. Buying new right now feels like a scam. Intel would have had it right if it wasn't for their driver overhead issues with slower CPU's.