NVidia is not holding back, but reduced the ordered production capacity a year ago in order to prevent overcapacity. It is a big loss-making business to keep finished products in stock, it ties up a lot of capital and the value falls over time. For nVidia, for AIBs, for stores. The forecasts on...
Not really. Russia has given international investors ample lessons in how "safe" their investments in autocratic states are.
To politics, economy and politics can't be separated, if the investment is located in totalitarian states, who are confrontational. If nVidia disinvest in China, western...
USA sanctioned China, nVidia in not allowed anymore to sell high-end chips to Chinese companies. A lot of Infrastructure in China got obsolete, any nVidia business in China is in danger to be canceled due to new sanctions. Tensions can rise anytime.
You can buy a North Korean or a Chinese GPU, to have a peaceful product, who is not made to earn money and will exist for at least the next millennia. :laugh:
This is no blow to nVidia, but to "made in USA".
A working closed ecosystem is better, than a not working open standard. That's why...
They have all problems, as the RT effects have been subsequently integrated into mature game engines. The next generation of game engines has RT as an integrated part, which gives a different quality.
I said, nVidia introduced RT to gaming, which is 100% factual.
It needs about 4-5 years to upgrade the game engine development. The better effects are about to come the next years. PS5 and Xbox won't be able to offer good RT anytime soon. Who wants cutting edge graphics, requires cutting edge...
No, they have other opinions. But there is a disturbing tendency regarding the ability to objectively discuss differing opinions.
Has anyone here claimed that cryptomining has ensured fair prices for gaming GPUs?
There are many sources, claiming 4080 is in stock, 4090 sold out fast. So what is...
Creatives have no alternative, nVidia rules due to his broad software support. 4090 sales are fine, price is ok.
Ray tracing was introduced by nVidia into gaming. DLSS was introduced by nVidia into gaming.
Being the technology leader in HPC/Visualization and AI has its perks. AMD lags behind...
Yes, I saw impressive results with octane. If I ever have more time again, I'll try other renderers/octane. But I have to switch to a professional 3D suit first to avoid 3rd party plugins. I can't promise anything. :) Hardware, I am still using a 2070, it's about time to update. 4090 for MSRP...
Hello. I am using Iray from nVidia for rendering. There is an octane plugin for around 150-200$ for my app, but the plugin is developed by a small independent team, sometimes updates are late and there is always the risk, the software will be abandoned. When I started rt there was no octane...
Oversupply in 3000er are compensated by lowered 4000er production to stabilize the price and to prepare to pass the recession without high inventories. nVidia cant control the price, they can only control the supply of newly produced 4000s. What consumers are willing to pay, is their's decision...
The price is formed from supply and demand. Not understanding this is a dangerous knowledge gap.
Yes, temporary oversupply of 3000 cards.
nVidia published a ray tracer, license free, my preferred 3D software implemented it, nVidia gave them support to code the interface. I had a radeon at that...
If you like to spend your time to search for driver errors, fine. No problem. I prefer to be paid for such work or be spared from it.
nVidia cards are not only used for gaming and are dominating the creative sector. AMD support for professional and semiprofessional software was very bad. They...
Depends on your income. If you bought rdna1 and lost 2 days to solve driver problems, you can calculate 2 working days income lost. Lets say 2*300$= 600$. If there was an insolvable issue with one of your preferred applications, you will never buy AMD GPUs again for the foreseeable future...