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Posted by KoiMaxx

Apparently, you can get away with around 20% sawdust if this Food Theory episode is anything to go by.

Posted by wertigon
Not really a fan of their lack of MSRP numbers for their three latest GPUs, too.

Posted by wertigon

Posted by CaptainJistuce
In fairness, MSRP is meaningless right now anyways. Nothing is selling for suggested retail.

In terms of what it sells in the store, yes. MSRP is meaningless.

In terms of, what does it cost the manufacturer to produce this though? No, it is actually a very relevant metric that tells us that Nvidia is most probably looking to increase margins further. Both AMD and Nvidia want to have higher margins, but not disclosing MSRP makes it that much harder to keep tabs on Nvidia.

Example:

Assume Nvidia releases a card that performs at x FPS and cost $300. Then we know this. We are expecting Nvidia can sell a card profitably with x FPS at $300.
Next year Nvidia releases a card that performs at x*1.1 FPS and cost $350. Again, we can keep tabs here and compare the new value to the old value.
Year after, Nvidia release a card that performs at x*1.15 FPS and cost... We do not know how much these cost. Could be $500 or could be $50. Is it a good value now? Is Nvidia producing cards at a loss, or not?

So, this is dishonest both for prospective customers, and their shareholders. What would be reasonable to expect here? An MSRP between $300 and $350. Is it though? Is it an attempt to hide a bad value proposition card, or not? Or are they just being greedy fuckers for the sake of being greedy (at which point they expose a huge opening for competitors, and wish to obfuscate this fact)? Should it even be that the 3080 12GB version sell for less than the 8GB version, since prices on DRAM have come down significantly these past few months?

MSRP is valuable still, even though it is not valuable as a measure of store prices during shortages.

Posted by wertigon

So the 6500 XT is what it is, mostly due to energy prices and shipping costs soaring astronomically high. But atleast it won't cost more than MSRP, since noone will buy it.

Posted by wertigon
Looks like 6500 XT is only at 50% markup as brand new now, stock holds pretty well, and while the MSRP sells out quickly, the $250 ones doesn't. Awesome!

Finally a price bottom tier has been established that can suck down all the other cards in price. Of course, inflation being what it is, not perfect, but this summer things should only be at 25-30% MSRP for most tiers. Sweet!

Can I have my $600 6700 XT soon-ish then? :D

Posted by wertigon
The problem with the web, as I see it, is three-fold:

1. HTML is all or nothing. There is no way to just reload a part of a website with standard HTML, which, well, SUCKS. I wish AJAX was a built in feature of HTML and you could use both

<a href="updates.php" target="mydiv">

and

<div id="mydiv" content="updates.php" refresh="30"/>

. Sadly, you need to use JavaScript for both.

Posted by Kawa

Posted by desudesu
I believe it also relies on HTML applications for some of the core interface such as the welcome screen.

I'm looking at the welcome screen source code right now and I'm afraid it's not just an HTML application but DirectUI, which admittedly does use some form of HTML and CSS.

Posted by desudesu

I mean, a ten years old codebase is probably not ideal, meow~ pet

Posted by desudesu

Oh, unrelatedly, Arisotura should be Arisotura in the board footer.

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