Make a decent product and people will buy it. What a complete surprise.
the 7900xt/xtx were/are also decent products, tbf, but $1k for a single component was, and still is, a STEEP ask - outside the budget of most. the only difference is we’re used to getting fucked over on gpu pricing so $600 for a mid-tier card now seems reasonable by comparison.
Current GPU prices are going to dissuade a lot of people from building new PCs, at least that’s what I’m seeing in my surroundings…
I am really glad that by AM4 5800X + Nvidia 3080 system still performs very well. I wish I had a 5800X3D, but you can’t buy them anymore.
The AI bubble will have to burst in a big way before we can get GPUs for decent prices.
The 5700X3D has the same core and thread count as the 5800X3D but with just slightly lower clock speeds, for less than half the price of the 5800X3D and wide availability:
From corsairs website:
The Ryzen 7 5700X3D and 5800X3D share very similar specs. However, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D offers a higher base and max boost clock of 3.4 GHz and 4.5 GHz respectively compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D’s 3 GHz and 4.1 GHz. Every other spec is identical.
Is the 5700X3D not an opinion for you?
I hate scalpers
I’ll believe it when I see it
I mean, it’s pretty safe to say that they’ve got good incentive to do it to the best of their ability. Right now, the cards are selling for above MSRP because there isn’t enough supply. They aren’t making that money — it’s going to scalpers and such.
If they wanted to constrain supply to benefit, they’d increase the prices they’re charging.
Finding one … in stock … is a near impossibility
Lots of cards are available. They just aren’t at MSRP
