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The Great NVIDIA Switcheroo | GPU Shrinkflation.

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The Great NVIDIA Switcheroo | GPU Shrinkflation | GamersNexus

We look at how NVIDIA has downsized essentially all of its gaming GPUs in terms of relative configuration compared to each generation’s flagship

  • This article expands upon our "RTX 4080 problem" by looking at the entirety of the RTX 50 series, including how the RTX 5070 looks an awful lot like a prior 50-class or 60-class GPU.
  • NVIDIA is giving you the least amount of CUDA cores for a given class of GPU than ever before.
  • GPU prices have crept higher across the board, but NVIDIA's, in particular, have lost step with what we came to expect from generations of GPU launches.
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  • I agree with the premise that NVIDIA is ripping people off more and more every generation, but this is such a weird metric to use.

    Knowing Gamer’s Nexus’ fixation on negativity, they probably started with the goal of finding a metric where the line has gone down for every skew and worked backwards from there.

    • As someone that has bought a graphics card as part of a build in these scenarios:

      • after having a first job
      • after graduating from college
      • about 9 years later as a professional

      The first 2 felt like a nice upgrade given my larger budget (200-300 more total for the entire computer). The last one felt like the worst purchase of my life. If gamers nexus is sometimes negative, it is for a good reason, we all feel it.

      I have a feeling they also had to buy their own components and have not forgotten that despite nvidia or amd fighting for stats, and streamers always having a top of the line build most gamers don’t (as shown by steam survey results over and over).

    • Why do you say that? Note I did not downvote you, I almost never downvote in this community (I am a mod after all).

      I don't watch YT videos around mainstream technology (niche topics is different), so I only read GN's articles. It's relatively balanced with solid analysis considering the target audience.

      What sort of baseline in terms of posture do you have in mind? Let's say LTT is shill positivity and GN is a fixation on negativity. What would sort of balanced approach do you think would work?

      Keep in mind I am not a GN fanboy and I only read their articles when they are posted here. But that being said I would rather choose "commercial negativity" that represents my interests than "shill positivity".

      And in defence of GN, they've actually done a lot of good for the global PC enthusiast community. GN taking up a story forces OEMs and semiconductor designers to react and they are big enough that they don't necessarily need review samples (so they have some leverage).

      How is this a bad thing?

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