News Nvidia RTX 4090 pricing is too high, while most other GPUs have held steady or declined in past 6 months — market analysis

[cfbcfb]

The price can't be too high or they'd be sitting on shelves instead of sold out below $2200.

Apparently I was a genius for buying one in a 13900K system for $2500 last month. It's awesome. Everything at 4k/ultra.

 

[Ogotai]

I see your point, but, at the same time, you have to understand that, the old days, when (say) you could get a 1080 Ti for $699, are long gone.

i do, BUT, 2200+ for a top end card is ridiculous, and price gouging. i also didnt say or even insinuate that it should be 700 ( which i assume is US funds ) which is almost 1k here.) IF the 4090 started at $1500 CAD, that would be a little more reasonable. but it isnt.

i do agree with you, any 40 series card that isnt a 4090 is crap, and not worth the current prices.. which is also why i am looking more at the 7900xt(x) cards vs the 40 series.... i dont care about RT or DLSS, i wont use them.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

The 4090 D will undermine inflated prices scalpers are demanding for 4090s. The raster and rt will be roughly the same. Just less ai tensor cores. So you can get 4090d for 1600 or pay scalpers 2000+ if you need ai.

Grumpy cat says "Good "

We actually need to see the official specs and existence and pricing of the 4090D cards to determine if it's any "good" or not. To my knowledge, Nvidia has never had an RTX card of any form — Turing, Ampere, or Ada — where it disabled some of the Tensor cores in an SM. It's so far been all or nothing: turn off the entire SM, or leave it fully enabled.

Is it possible Nvidia has the option to disable half of the tensor cores in an SM? Sure. But if that capability has been present, why has it never been utilized before? (No, I'm not counting the GTX 1650 that used TU106 and completely disabled all the RT and Tensor cores. We need evidence of partially disabled Tensors without impacting other elements.)

There's some rampant speculation out there on the 4090D, but so far no hard evidence. I'm not worried about trying to be the first to leak the exact specs — or more likely, guess 20 different possibilities and get right on one of them. We'll let Nvidia actually launch the card and see how that goes (assuming it actually goes through with the 4090D.)

 

[brandonjclark]

You did well to buy it right from the start. And i don't even think it's too "stupidly expensive" for what you are getting.

It's a quantum leap in performance improvement over the 3090 and it's pretty much the only card that will cap 60 fps in 4K Ultra.

Think about it this way: you paid $1750 for the best GPU that gives amazing performance... and you have no GPU worries for the next 4-5 years at a minimum.

Personally, i can't say i was first in line... I was more late to the party... but I'm here now and I am enjoying it.

Anyway... I would love to know Nvidia's profit margins on the 4090. I honestly have no idea what their cost is.

I hope this is a joke reply.

 

[valthuer]

I hope this is a joke reply.

Nope. Damn serious.