8186

Pfshaw, broseph, I can get $150 for my 770, astonishingly enough.

8187

I thought selling my 2080 Ti for $900 and later settling for buying a 3080 FE for the same $900 off a local Craigslist dude in the early weeks was a disappointment. Crazy that you still can’t get anything. If the guy who bootlegged me the 3080 had waited a few more days he would’ve realized he could’ve sold it for $1500+.

8188

Local retailer is selling all 30xx series at 2 to 3 times MSRP. And I’m tempted to bite. I feel sad.

At least there is stock, amirite?

8189

I get 25% to cover the dumbass tariffs and then some more for the demand increase, but many retailers and etailers have been pushing it too far as well. In a way, it makes me think of the artificial value increase applied to stuff like diamonds.

8190

Someone on craigslist offered me $600 for a 2080 founders edition. I might be able to do better on eBay.

8191

AMD has heard you loud and clear: you can’t buy its excellent RX 6800 and 6800 XT graphics cards at anything close to their retail prices. Today, the company’s announcing a new GPU that might (but probably won’t?) change that: the Radeon RX 6700 XT.

“With the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT launch, we are on track to have significantly more GPUs available for sale at launch,” AMD tells The Verge. Even better: AMD claims it’ll begin refreshing stock of RX 6000 GPUs and Ryzen 5000 CPUs every week on its own website, where it’ll sell them at their retail prices.

8192

I’d love to be able to get a ryzen 5950x and a 3080 for a desktop system, but the prices and availability on the 5950 are about as bad as the 3080s. I guess the skylake will have to hang in there a bit longer. Hopefully someday supply will be worked out.

8193

I hope I can get a 10900 or 5900 for under $500 CAD in a few months.

8194

The thing with AMD cards in general is the lack of DLSS, or anything equivalent from AMD. Now that we have seen the full potential of DLSS (huge increase in frame rate with little downgrade in picture quality in general, and easily implemented), going forward it doesn’t make sense to buy Radeon unless it is much cheaper.

8195

Are the days of AMD not updating their drivers promptly over? Because that or having bad drivers was the rep they got back in the day. I had a laptop with a discrete AMD graphics card in it about 10 years ago and I was not impressed.

8196

AMD not talking about “super resolution” with the 6700XT launch would have been disastrous in an open market where people could choose which GPU they wanted. As is, they got time.

AMD drivers had a lot of problems with the 5000 line but the recent ones seem OK.

8197

Incredible. I still have my old R9 380 laying around from when I last upgraded in 2018. I assumed it would be practically worthless, but a quick check of sold items on Ebay shows it’s going for around $150. Hell, I only paid $200 for it back in 2016!

Why in the hell are people paying this much money for a card that launched in 2015?

8198

Strange time mt friend, strange times.

While were digging in closets for old vide cards check for shoeboxes of basebal lcards too.

8199

I’m keeping my 970 around in case my 1080 somehow goes south.

/prays to the GPU gods that that never happens

8200

This is just basic supply and demand. There’s aren’t enough video cards available for everyone who wants to buy them, so prices rise as people compete for video cards.

I haven’t seen any good credible explanations for why video card supply is so constrained but the popular candidates are COVID related disruptions to manufacturing, competition from other devices needing chips from the same fabs that could be make GPUs, possibly some tariff related shenanigans from Trump’s trade war, and crypto miners.

8201

Heck, forget sports cards! Chris Roberts night have the right idea with JPEGs!

8202

All of what you said, plus people shifting their entertainment spending from vacations and restaurants toward home-based stuff, since they’re stuck at home.

8203

Those paper money the investment banks etc. got from central banks around the world got nowhere else to go. Of course it will go into asset bubble. Bitcoins, trading cards etc. in the old days no one will touch but now they belong to “novel asset class”. 🙄

Meanwhile, the average person is drowning in debt.

See for example:

8204

Good catch, that’s probably relevant as well. What’s harder to interpret is the relative weight of any of these factors. I wonder if Nvidia or AMD ever publicly comment on number of units shipped? If they simply aren’t making/importing as many GPUs that points to supply side constraints. If they are making/importing the normal numbers and prices are still spiking that points to demand surge.

8205

My GPU died this week. I’m now running on a salvaged Radeon 6770.

I try to imagine explaining to a young, hacker-obsessed version of myself that the reason I can’t play the new Cyberpunk game is that a pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and the remaining processors are running 24-7 to destroy the environment for something called cryptocurrency.

It would sound like I said wizards are keeping me from playing Might & Magic.