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The GeForce 10 series is 2+ years old and are still selling around MSRP. Is that normal?
For top tier video cards? yes.
(I have no evidence that they are not releasing newer cards just to continue to sell the older stock at MSRP).
Seriously? I find this hard to believe - prices of GPUs have been ridiculously high (much higher than at launch) for so long precisely because the supply was so short. Pretty much every supplier I've seen would either sell out any high-end Nvidia GPUs almost as soon as they got them or would ramp up the price more and more. This is either an incorrect rumour or some very weird shitty strategy by Nvidia that backfired…
Miner demand was about 50% of sales. Admittedly this is because a lot of gamers were turned off by high prices. That demand has evaporated since the price of Bitcoin alternatives (eg. Ethereum) has plummeted, and the difficulty of mining is still very high since now ASICs can mine many coins more efficiently than consumers GPUs. Plus it seems like Nvidia are stuck with a lot of low-end chips. Many miners were buying…
Disclaimer, I am long NVDA
Take that future, add the possible future collapse of crypto currencies, and I see a significant existential risk for anyone whose business relies on GPU sales. Not a 100% future, not ever 25%, but something to think about.
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Raytracing is faking it as well, but the illusion is a bit better ;-)
I suppose if the universe is in fact a hologram as some scientists have hypothesized, and we’re just living in a 3d projection then we could say reality is faking it :-) But the current gen video hacks and future raytracing are pretty hard to compare. Raytracing can be an accurate simulation of the physics properties of light. I suppose the biggest caveat is whether you’re doing forward or backward raytracing. Backwa…
Seriously? I find this hard to believe - prices of GPUs have been ridiculously high (much higher than at launch) for so long precisely because the supply was so short. Pretty much every supplier I've seen would either sell out any high-end Nvidia GPUs almost as soon as they got them or would ramp up the price more and more. This is either an incorrect rumour or some very weird shitty strategy by Nvidia that backfired…
Miner demand was about 50% of sales. Admittedly this is because a lot of gamers were turned off by high prices. That demand has evaporated since the price of Bitcoin alternatives (eg. Ethereum) has plummeted, and the difficulty of mining is still very high since now ASICs can mine many coins more efficiently than consumers GPUs. Plus it seems like Nvidia are stuck with a lot of low-end chips. Many miners were buying…
The author is shorting Nvidia stock (as he / she discloses at the end of the article). So, while this article attempts to be objective, I just don't believe it can be.
Agreed. The author's bias makes this unethical, in my opinion. I wish HN didn't promote posts like this.
The author is shorting Nvidia stock (as he / she discloses at the end of the article). So, while this article attempts to be objective, I just don't believe it can be.
It's like people with a negative outlook on a company can't win: if they short, they're accused of being biased. If they don't short, they're accused of tossing out accusations with no skin in the game.
The author is shorting Nvidia stock (as he / she discloses at the end of the article). So, while this article attempts to be objective, I just don't believe it can be.
Agreed. The author's bias makes this unethical, in my opinion. I wish HN didn't promote posts like this.
The author is shorting Nvidia stock (as he / she discloses at the end of the article). So, while this article attempts to be objective, I just don't believe it can be.
Agreed. The author's bias makes this unethical, in my opinion. I wish HN didn't promote posts like this.