Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected::undefined

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      6 months ago

      It’s just frustrating that mining has made it effectively impossible to buy a higher end video card at anything even approaching a reasonable price.

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        6 months ago

        nVidia simply noticed that enough people were willing to pay the absolutely ridiculously inflated prices scalpers were demanding and realized they could skip the middleman and reap the profits themselves. Crypto and COVID might have been how they found that out, but the lack of competition is the reason they are getting away with it.

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      6 months ago

      At least the performance gap somewhat justified the price. The other cards, mainly 4060 got little to no performance upgrade, yet cost more.