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[asdasdasdbb]

Best Buy recently clearanced some of their PNY 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16Gb graphics cards. For no real good reason.

Best Buy does have some other models. But yeah... it's pushing $600 for the 5060 Ti 16 GB. You might be able to get a 5070 or an 9070 for around that.

 

[Cumulus]

You can easily spot the complete idiots when they immediately go to "uuuh look at his hair" instead of in any way or form refute the data presented..... Which is pretty catastrophic across all the venues they visited.

 

[rm082e]

Yeah, honestly, what in the hell is going on with these YouTube videos at that length?

As a rule, if someone thinks them talking in front of a camera should take more time than a Scorcese flick, then they simply have no idea how to communicate succinctly, or they like hearing themselves talk. Either way, pretty insufferable.

They wouldn't be spending the money to fly all over the world and do the interviews that make up these longer pieces if people weren't watching. They wouldn't keep making them if they weren't beneficial for the bottom line.

 

[mdkirby]

There's a certain irony that "winning the ai race" is viewed as critical to national security…but in chasing it the way they are they are ceding the consumer market to the Chinese, in a few years most western pc gamer homes will be running on Chinese ram and gpu's…which is arguably also a national security problem

 

[kiphalfton]

Best Buy does have some other models. But yeah... it's pushing $600 for the 5060 Ti 16 GB. You might be able to get a 5070 or an 9070 for around that.

Yeah, it was weird and seemingly a nationwide thing for what I saw on reddit and Slickdeals.

I follow a couple different discords for tracking GPU prices, and every once in awhile I'll see a sub $1000 rtx 5070 ti, but it's always the most basic model from Asus, Gigabyte, PNY, etc.

Seemingly "cheapest" way to get a 5070 Ti, RAM, SSD is to buy prebuilt. Sickening.

 

[Gamezone]

There's a certain irony that "winning the ai race" is viewed as critical to national security…but in chasing it the way they are they are ceding the consumer market to the Chinese, in a few years most western pc gamer homes will be running on Chinese ram and gpu's…which is arguably also a national security problem

Most stuff I buy is produced in China, and Chinese EV's are doing great.

 

[dgrdsv]

There's a certain irony that "winning the ai race" is viewed as critical to national security…but in chasing it the way they are they are ceding the consumer market to the Chinese, in a few years most western pc gamer homes will be running on Chinese ram and gpu's…which is arguably also a national security problem

Nobody is "ceding" anything, Steve is just spewing bullshit, "AI race" is "consumer segment" to its core, gaming over the next 50 years will be 99.9% AI, the pricing issues are overblown to hell by the likes of Steve and are stemming from *demand* which means that there's literally nothing Nvidia or any other company should be doing aside from satisfying that demand with the supply they can master. The rest is for the market to balance out, certainly not for Nvidia to gift or something which Steve seem to always hint at as if this would solve anything. The whole premise of the video is completely idiotic cause Nvidia is deciding to change the reporting structure to better please their investors and *fucking protect* whatever is under-performing by putting it into a better performing bundles. I.e. it is the exact fucking opposite of what that genius investigator is telling to his audience.

 

[Clear]

Funny how Steve's pivot to this sort of activism/fearmongering has coincided with the rise of component prices combining with a shrinking field of vendors rendering his old business model way less feasible than it used to be.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

https://videocardz.com/newz/dell-confirms-xps-laptop-with-nvidia-n1x-at-computex

It looks like NV will indeed launch N1X at Computex.

 

[RayHell]

Funny how Steve's pivot to this sort of activism/fearmongering has coincided with the rise of component prices combining with a shrinking field of vendors rendering his old business model way less feasible than it used to be.

I'm pretty sure the relationship between hardware manufacturer and youtuber has changed now. They don't have to bend over to promote/sell their stock anymore and please them so the Youtubers don't destroy their reputation/brand. GN is just trying to gain back that sense of power.

 

[Gamezone]

https://videocardz.com/newz/dell-confirms-xps-laptop-with-nvidia-n1x-at-computex

It looks like NV will indeed launch N1X at Computex.

Didn't Nvidia want everyone to rent their cloud based systems?

 

[dgrdsv]

Didn't Nvidia want everyone to rent their cloud based systems?

No. That's what Steve said what Nvidia wanted.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I have a really tough time figuring out what PC gaming is right now. The high end is absurdly expensive WITHOUT any of this AI nonsense and seems to be running into the limits of manufacturing capability and power usage. I don't see how a 6090 or 7090 can meaningfully iterate on the 5090 considering current trends. Same thing with CPUs. Hence the new focus on fake frames and fake pixels. And devs are focusing more on coding for lower end hardware. Valve is planning to release an AIO PC that is very modest and people are very excited about it.

So yea, Nvidia doesn't care as much about gaming hardware but I also think the advancement has kind of hit a wall. The days of doubling performance every 2 years is over. Are we just going to live in a 3060 world into perpetuity?

Technology will always advance. We are coming close to the wall on raw raster but there will always be advancements and other tech that is in it's infancy will improve massively. It's the way it's always been and won't stop.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Funny how Steve's pivot to this sort of activism/fearmongering has coincided with the rise of component prices combining with a shrinking field of vendors rendering his old business model way less feasible than it used to be.

Goes the other way to. AI shills all happen to be tech bros. Normal people don't really give a shit- until it inconveniences them (we are now here).