Last-gen AMD GPUs and even some last-gen Nvidia GPUs beat Nvidia’s current gen in performance and cost way less. The pricing of 40 series is absurd for the performance it provides.
Last-gen AMD GPUs and even some last-gen Nvidia GPUs beat Nvidia’s current gen in performance and cost way less. The pricing of 40 series is absurd for the performance it provides.
There are people with the hardware. They’re targeting rich people who can afford it because they can make more money that way. In fact, the 1050 Ti is a scam in itself, as are all the so-called “low-end” cards. Essentially, the price is lower, but the performance is WAY lower, so the value is horrible. The best value is usually mid-tier, like 1060 Ti to 1070 Ti. They’re trying to make massive profit margins off of poor people and enthusiasts who aren’t going to be upgrading often, and give rich gamers the best value, expecting them to upgrade regularly so they can extract more profit from them. It’s truly disgusting capitalist behavior.
I think that is still falling into the trap of “more performance is desirable”. I did look at those 2 while considering the 1050 Ti but I wouldn’t be able to afford either easily and so far I haven’t hit a single good game that runs badly with my setup. I even managed to play some switch games on ryujinx quite well. Besides that, the 1070 Ti also has the exact problem I mentioned where they would probably require me to upgrade my old PSU and I also will probably only change my old 720p screen if it breaks as it works very well. I wouldn’t say that a cheaper but less FPS-efficient card is a scam if they get the job done. All my hardware for games is from 6+ year tech and it gets the job done very well. Now if the objective is non-game GPU usage such as ML I agree that those are woefully inadequate. I think computer hardware reached a point where “upgrading” is way less desirable than “maintaining”, with few exceptions such as SSDs.
What I’m saying is that cards like the 1050 Ti need to cost even less in order to reflect the performance they provide. The scam is the fact that they’re increasing their profit margin to extract more profit out of people who can’t afford better cards.
Makes sense. Honestly those cards are so old and popular that I see no ethical reason that they shouldn’t just be open-sourced sometime soon for any manufacturer to make their own. It’s not like the people who made it are getting paid residuals or anything. Everyday I am more sure that every commercial hardware/software technology should have a “open-source deadline” upon release at the bare minimum.