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Rent-to-own a GPU
(lemmy.ml)
I fucking hate how everything is a subscription now
Then perhaps you would be interested in !fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world
I'll subscribe to that right away!
I've been offered a 4mo payment plan for like $10 of toiletries. No one has money for anything, it's insane that anyone thinks this can continue.
It can't, it will all crash sooner or later :sicko:
There is a buy out option where you pay one month extra so you end up paying more than double the retail price to own the product
This is presumably how they're keeping the scalping going after the crypto crash.
There website says the founded the company 10 years ago with the lease program maybe it is just money laundering
Why buy, when you can rent? First they came for the houses, now for the GPUs.
Technically, this is feudalism.
I was gonna say that $220 a month sounds very high. I thought three months worth of rent would cover the cost but then I checked the price and it's about $1500. Why do people pay this much for a GPU? That sounds insane. These are the same people that used to call console users sheep. They now pay over a thousand dollars for a GPU alone despite which they have to complain since AAA games are unoptimised garbage these days.
Also, why do graphics need to be photorealistic? What does it add to the game exactly? I have never had a problem with 2D sprites or cartoonish 3D models as long as the other aspects of the game is well made.
agreed, although I would guess that a lot of these extremely expensive GPUs are used for machine learning, 3D modelling and other intensive tasks
10 months and you've already overpaid for the card. just save for 10 months
So it's not even worth it for people who would buy every single new top GPU on day 1. Plus, almost everyone who do that actually resell their "old" GPU so it's definitely really not worth it by any means.
Buy the time you save for 10 months, you can just save a couple more months and buy the newly released upgraded version of that GPU.
Gamers arent the only people who buy gpus, but also developers, as well as video editors.
For some applications, why would a developer pay workstation prices for a gpu if their specific application gets not performance benefit from the driver.
Things like CUDA and hardware encoding/decoding for video, etc. are optimised fairly well. Professional software reliant on GPU generally uses them well enough.
But I think the percentage of people who need GPUs like this professionally is not very high. Most of the consumer base is just people willing to part with their money over manufactured hype. Especially with cryptocurrency mining not being in that much demand. This is why ray tracing is core to their marketing methodology.
"Hi, yes I'd like to buy a time share for a GPU. I know it's a great deal, I saw your ad and thought 'why not?'"
Ah yes permanently buying a key component for your computer is dumb, somehow it makes sense to rent it instead?
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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