MSRP means Maybe Some Random Price

Maybe they are using the samsung foldable screen phone as a benchmark. I have noticed a similar price range for “top of the line”.

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Fire sale?

I don't understand why suddenly everyone expects third party manufacturers to match Nvidia's prices. As long as Nvidia's been making cards, theirs have been the cheapest... they literally make the silicon.

If everyone expects Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, etc to match Nvidia's prices, you can expect them all to do what EVGA did and drop out because they'll be losing their asses on every high end card they sell.

I’m over here on a 12 year old nvidia card waiting for that 3070 to hit $200 🤣

Cash for clunkers is what ruined that imo.

Can't wait to see the performance comparisons of the 4080's and the AMD cards that are $900

The thing is you can now get a 3070 for $400 used. That’ll handle 4k gaming to 99.9% of peoples standards. $1000 used to be the standard price I’d think of a decent computer. now $1000 will get you a solid state storage 4k or vr gaming machine.

now the guys that want to go way overboard can. and those speeds will trickle down each generation. I’ll enjoy buying a 4090 or amd equivalent in a 2 years for $500-700. and that’ll last me another 5 years.

Wow this was an incredible explanation thank you very much! I’m so glad you guys here are so patient and welcoming to me with my noob questions!!

I did say base cards first and FE. And FE cards have been around longer then everyone's acting almost 10 years ago they sold a 780 FE. They started pushing them harder over the last 3 gens / 6 years.

Not exactly no. Think of it like a stock car while the AIB's (sadly slowly not anymore) are tweaked "racing" models. EVGA was the prime example of this where they would tweak their cards faster than stock.

The stock car is fine and probably cheaper but that racing model will be faster and have things like NOS and bucket seats.

Also the company that covers your warranty for AIBs are those companies and not NVidia. The direct car example would be if your dealership would repair your car for you as per warranty instead of the factory it came from.

So is it safe to assume the FE type cards are better/safer purchases since it’s directly from the designer? Or is that not a good thought process?

Yes, that is correct. AMD doesn't have a special name for it and Intel calls them Limited Edition.

I have a choice to pay my 6-month rent or buy a new GPU

>It's always been this way where if you buy a nicer AIB model the prices increase from the base MSRP.

Don’t pretend it was always like this lol used to be 70-100 markup maybe a little more. Did you read the article? They’re talking 400 fucking dollars above FE prices it has certainly not “always been that way”

This account must be a bot karma farming. Check it’s history.

FE is typically only used to refer to Nvidia cards afaik

GTX 970 for the win.

Sorry but the same was said about the drivers that I was on back when I formed that opinion. Not mention the software itself being junk.

Also that article is from 2018.

Path tracing is the new holly grail. Abit different then ray tracing, alot more complex, and physically accurate.

The big push now for dlss and other ai based upscaling I think is silly, why fake a high res picture when you could use ai to accelerate path tracing and other raw features and render at true high res and high performance.

Dlss reminds me of 3d tv's, and 200 Hz tv's, just a sales gimmick. Which is what Ray tracing currently is to.

That may or may not be true, but MC has several listed at or near MSRP.

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https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?N=4294966937+4294805556&NTK=all&sortby=pricelow

Not true these days, drivers are just as stable on AMD as Nvidia

https://wccftech.com/amd-most-stable-graphics-drivers/

FE is a newer thing so I don't know what always could mean short of a couple years. Nvidia cards always sucked in comparison up until lately

7900 XTX should handily outperform the 4080 in raster...but we will have to wait for the benchmarks.