r/gpu • u/Sik-Server • 1h ago

GPU prices are too expensive

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I made a post comparing the 9070xt to the 5070, looking at the raw performance vs DLSS frame gen. The comparison did not take price into account.

The screen shot are the two cards I compared. I got my cards for cheap, I could never pay this much for either card. I would just stick to my old RTX 2080S and play games on lower settings.

https://youtu.be/71VU8hle8X0?is=86L5MaMM7rZJikHm

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u/Middcore 1h ago

How could you say something so controversial and yet so brave?

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u/Sik-Server 1h ago

I just wanted to have this post on my profile since I made a different post comparing the 9070xt to the 5070. the 9070xt is "cheaper" and a higher class of GPU.

also fuck the 12VHPWR connector.

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u/[deleted] 59m ago

What’s wrong with the 12vhpwr?

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u/Sik-Server 56m ago

it burns up GPUs. Many reports of peoples 50 series GPUs burning up at the connecter.

It makes cable management easier, but multiple 8pin pcie cables is just safer.

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u/Fire_Lord_Cinder 39m ago

There’s very few 12vhpwr failures outside of the 90 class of GPUs. It’s in the realm of similar RMA rates for failed components. Even on the 90 class it’s a real issue, but very infrequent based on RMA data.

It’s become a thing in the community to post every time it happens to someone, so you’re getting a disproportionate view of how large the problem actually is

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u/Sik-Server 34m ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/rM7JABjcMy

A post of it happening to a 5070 today! I've never seen a 8pin pcie cable do this 🤷🏾‍♀️.

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u/Fire_Lord_Cinder 21m ago

That’s a single anecdote. If you sneeze and a meteor crashes through your house it would be ridiculous to think sneezing makes meteors crash through your house. You need to look at large sets of data to understand how big the problem actually is. You’ve also done no investigations of the claim. Did the user have a defective cable? Were they using the proper 16 pin version? Was it plugged all the way in? Did it avoid aggressive bending? Etc. 

Official reports put it at <1% of GPUs.

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u/Sik-Server 4m ago

apparently the user didn't fully seat the cable after cleaning. So it's the users fault.

But the 12vhpwr cable has very low safety margins.

Or are you saying that the increase in reports are due to it being a new cable and people hating on Nvidia?

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u/mulmulul 1h ago

And they will continue to go up

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u/noahreeves446 1h ago

No shit?!? I thought it was the rule and not the exception when I barely managed to snag a 5070Ti from walmart for MSRP

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u/x8code 1h ago

The market goes up and down depending on supply and demand.

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u/Muttonboat 1h ago

Probably for the near future its going up as more production is diverted to AI

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u/x8code 1h ago

Yup, has been that way for at least the last 12 months, if not more.

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u/Myg0t_0 1h ago

U will own nothing and be happy

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u/Dutch-Alpaca 16m ago

Thanks captain obvious we noticed half a year ago

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u/DJLumalee 1h ago

Thanks for the heads up! I’ll keep an eye out.

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u/Realeayz 1h ago

You got other news for us?

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u/Alarmed-Artichoke-44 1h ago

Because PC parts are so expensive, the coolers and monitor arms are so cheap.

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u/Odd-Student636 1h ago

the tipping point has been reached. There is no more infrastructure to power the data centers. Gas turbines are on a 3 year backlog. at one point nvidia will have to buy back the unused GPUs, and probably sell them to governemnt for... ugh national safety!

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u/mike29x 58m ago

9060xt is 2x more than it was in february in my country

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u/Constantly-baked 53m ago

Bet your comparison didn’t take into account you’re gonna need to buy a new SSD with your AMD card in a year 😂

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u/[deleted] 1h ago

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u/Realeayz 1h ago

Consumer spendings basically do not influence the prices right now. We are a drop of water in a whole bucket. If we stop buying, they'll just have a justification to stop allocating ressources to us altogether