Complete garbage post. Appreciate the work you mods do cleaning up this kind of crap.
The price hikes on GPUs are completely unwarranted. Maybe that's the wrong word - they are not motivated by the need to make a profit (as may be the case for your supermarket, as there is likely no shortage of competition there), they are motivated by a desire to make more and more and even more profit. This not a long term change due to inflation or other reasons, this is simply jacking up prices. 25-30% price increases on 70/80 series, and now a 980 Ti successor (this new Titan has no qualities of the previous Titans) for 85% more than we paid for it a year and a month ago?I see that quite a few members are very vocal about prices being too high etc but keep forgetting that prices in general for everything has increased several folds over the decade.
If everything was constant.. the complaining about IHVs not sticking to this 00s old GPU pricig scheme would make sense. But that isnt the case. R&D costs have gone up tremendously (GPUs are getting more complex to design), manufacturing costs, inflation etc.
Maybe im wrong and instead be angry for being ripped off by my local supermarket because they have doubled the cost for the usual things i buy over the years..
Well, both Vega dies almost have to have native 1/2 DP because the smaller one presumably would be used as part of Greenland HPC APU. Which is going to take up a ton of space... both probably only support HBM2 too.
Sure, but his point was the mid range GPUs are going up not only the top end.
IIRC, it would've been true about VLIW architecture, but the GCN has always been different, or is it only in past couple of revisions that it is the case.AMD's FP64 is not dedicated units. It's just a beefier hardware scheduler that enables FP32 SP to operate together to process FP64 at 1/2 rate.
Like what?
I really cannot understand how anyone though this naming was a good idea. They've struggled with titan names past the first (titan black?) but this is on another level.
What's next, the new volta based nvidia gtx 1080, now x% faster than the geforce gtx 1080?
It's all copying Apple. Macbook, Apple TV, Mac Mini, iMac etc. It's always a pain to figure out which gen your Apple product is before you can get information on it.
The price hikes on GPUs are completely unwarranted. Maybe that's the wrong word - they are not motivated by the need to make a profit (as may be the case for your supermarket, as there is likely no shortage of competition there), they are motivated by a desire to make more and more and even more profit. This not a long term change due to inflation or other reasons, this is simply jacking up prices. 25-30% price increases on 70/80 series, and now a 980 Ti successor (this new Titan has no qualities of the previous Titans) for 85% more than we paid for it a year and a month ago?
What's doubled in price at your local supermarket, and relative to when?
Even if the competition is doing a worthless job at keeping NV in line (which only but the most stalwart would deny), there's nothing unreasonable about consumers being ticked off when they pull this. If consumers are unhappy, then the business is doing something wrong, as far as they should be concerned. I just wish NV would starts to feel it...
Like the very structure and land you live on for example? I guess some people cannot relate because they are yet to reach that social level but everything in general has been going up in prices (living cost) not just due to inflation alone.
The world is not a static place and time waits for no one. Expecting products to follow some old pricing scheme is bound to be met with disappointment. If they priced it too high then the sales numbers will reflect this.
People also forget that the fiancial situation for different social classes differ each year. For those that can spend without any hesitation the particular pricing they are after doesnt matter. For those that do then well its unfortunate. But not everyone is the same here. If i was a student maybe i am not getting the best deal on a video card like i use to 5 years ago but if i have a good paying job it doesnt quite matter.
The price hikes on GPUs are completely unwarranted. Maybe that's the wrong word - they are not motivated by the need to make a profit
Well, both Vega dies almost have to have native 1/2 DP because the smaller one presumably would be used as part of Greenland HPC APU. Which is going to take up a ton of space... both probably only support HBM2 too.
The nvidia price gouging continues. Prepare your wallets for $999+ 1080ti and some more on top for having the privilege of being a "founder".
TitanXP (pascal) leaves little room from a pricing perspective for a TitanX higher core count successor. And why, if a TitanX now will cost 1200 dollars, would a 1080Ti (technically will all shaders enabled and 12GB of GDDR5X) cost less than the 1200? It is essentially the same card with more shaders enabled. I understand before because of compute differences, but I don't see those differences this time around. Not sure what they plan here.
At this rate what is a "full chip" going to run? 1080 Is $700 and still sold out for the most part. How high are people willing to spend for these things? $2000, $3000, $5000?