Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected : technology

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 44 points 11 months ago

Hope they either suck less or are less expensive than the 4000 series. Both would be great, but that for sure won’t happen

[-] long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago

I'm sure they won't be any cheaper. Nvidia can be as greedy as they want given the low competition they have.

[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And with the 4000 Series it worked so damn well. 4090s sold like sliced bread

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

It’s just frustrating that mining has made it effectively impossible to buy a higher end video card at anything even approaching a reasonable price.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

nVidia simply noticed that enough people were willing to pay the absolutely ridiculously inflated prices scalpers were demanding and realized they could skip the middleman and reap the profits themselves. Crypto and COVID might have been how they found that out, but the lack of competition is the reason they are getting away with it.

[-] gornius@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

At least the performance gap somewhat justified the price. The other cards, mainly 4060 got little to no performance upgrade, yet cost more.

[-] thantik@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Honestly I am hoping that Intel's BattleMage solves a lot of the problems they had with their first card launch. While I dislike Intel, competition is good for everybody.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The enthousiastic Intel marketing guy that was on the GamersNexus videos left the company, so it's not looking great.

[-] Exec@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks, Steve!

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

So I should apply for a 2nd mortgage to get that ball rolling?

[-] Shadywack@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Fuck nVidia, I hope AMD's MI3000 eats their AI lunch so they can go crawling back to the gaming table. Motherfuckers.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I'm too old, I've seen too many generations come full cycle to 5x nomenclatures, first Voodoo (just the once:'(), Radeon like two or four times (bcs reasons), now GeForce is going for the third.

[-] syd@lemy.lol 1 points 11 months ago

I need an upgrade and I will buy Nvidia’s latest thise time (instead of AMD).

The question is, when? How long should I wait after it releases to not be an early-tester?

[+] 1984@lemmy.today -9 points 11 months ago

Blackwell... How do they come up with these names. :)

[-] TurboLag 35 points 11 months ago

The architectures are named after scientists. This one is for the mathematician David Blackwell.

[-] wikibot@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first African American full professor (with tenure) at the University of California, Berkeley, and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. In 2012, President Obama posthumously awarded Blackwell the National Medal of Science. Blackwell was also a pioneer in textbook writing. He wrote one of the first Bayesian statistics textbooks, his 1969 Basic Statistics. By the time he retired, he had published over 90 papers and books on dynamic programming, game theory, and mathematical statistics.

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