“AI heavily increased GPU prices” Nvidia one of the greediest companys around increased the prices of GPUs, not necessarily AIs fault because nvidia is in direct control of their card prices.
Take a look at Intel’s new GPUs, they are actually priced in a way that isn’t fist fucking the consumer.
TBF I misread the storage originally and went with all SSD, so the price should be about a thousand less. Here’s the part list for anyone who wants to check my work: https://newegg.io/6d2b327
The specs in the comic are just crazy. The top of the line option has expanded a lot too. In the past Nvidia wouldn’t have bothered making a 4090 because the common belief was nobody would pay that much for a GPU… But seemingly enough people are willing to do it that it’s worth doing now.
AMD also revived CPUs in desktop PCs from extreme stagnation and raised the bar for the high end on that side as well by a lot.
So it’s a mix of inflation and the ceiling just being raised as to what the average consumer is offered.
I built a similar PC in 2022: Ryzen 7700X, 4090, 32GB of DDR5 6000, 4TB NVME and 6TB HDD; it was $4400 including tax. If you spec the same PC today, it’s under $3K now.
I feel like building a top of the line PC cost less than half this just one generation ago. What on earth happened?
Edit: maybe the specs in the comic are just crazy.
Prices for all parts soared during corona
AI heavily increased GPU prices
“AI heavily increased GPU prices” Nvidia one of the greediest companys around increased the prices of GPUs, not necessarily AIs fault because nvidia is in direct control of their card prices.
Take a look at Intel’s new GPUs, they are actually priced in a way that isn’t fist fucking the consumer.
TBF I misread the storage originally and went with all SSD, so the price should be about a thousand less. Here’s the part list for anyone who wants to check my work: https://newegg.io/6d2b327
You could easily save $138.99 by using Linux.
The specs in the comic are just crazy. The top of the line option has expanded a lot too. In the past Nvidia wouldn’t have bothered making a 4090 because the common belief was nobody would pay that much for a GPU… But seemingly enough people are willing to do it that it’s worth doing now.
AMD also revived CPUs in desktop PCs from extreme stagnation and raised the bar for the high end on that side as well by a lot.
So it’s a mix of inflation and the ceiling just being raised as to what the average consumer is offered.
The SSD is what’s jacking up the price so much.
I built a similar PC in 2022: Ryzen 7700X, 4090, 32GB of DDR5 6000, 4TB NVME and 6TB HDD; it was $4400 including tax. If you spec the same PC today, it’s under $3K now.