Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected::undefined
Hope they either suck less or are less expensive than the 4000 series. Both would be great, but that for sure won’t happen
I’m sure they won’t be any cheaper. Nvidia can be as greedy as they want given the low competition they have.
And with the 4000 Series it worked so damn well. 4090s sold like sliced bread
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.
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.
At least the performance gap somewhat justified the price. The other cards, mainly 4060 got little to no performance upgrade, yet cost more.
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.
The enthousiastic Intel marketing guy that was on the GamersNexus videos left the company, so it’s not looking great.
Thanks, Steve!
So I should apply for a 2nd mortgage to get that ball rolling?
Fuck nVidia, I hope AMD’s MI3000 eats their AI lunch so they can go crawling back to the gaming table. Motherfuckers.
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.
Blackwell… How do they come up with these names. :)
The architectures are named after scientists. This one is for the mathematician David Blackwell.
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.
