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Gururu Very interesting adjustment by nVidia. I have to say that the 5050-5060 cards are positioning themselves for long term domination. Reply
LordVile Gururu said: Very interesting adjustment by nVidia. I have to say that the 5050-5060 cards are positioning themselves for long term domination. Don’t really see that tbh, they’re better in budget builds for pricing but they’re massively impacted by the x8 configuration in anything that isn’t PCIE 5 which isn’t budget. The 9060 series 8GB cards that has the full x16 lanes is significantly less impacted on systems with PCIE 4 and especially PCIE 3 where the x8 8GB cards are effectively unusable a lot of the time. Reply
PEnns 9GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus? What's next. a 7.5 GB and 64-bit bus version?? "The RTX 5050 is one of the few GPUs that basically saw no price hikes in the past few months," Yeah, tough to raise prices on the bottom of the barrel stuff. Reply
Gururu LordVile said: Don’t really see that tbh, they’re better in budget builds for pricing but they’re massively impacted by the x8 configuration in anything that isn’t PCIE 5 which isn’t budget. The 9060 series 8GB cards that has the full x16 lanes is significantly less impacted on systems with PCIE 4 and especially PCIE 3 where the x8 8GB cards are effectively unusable a lot of the time. I hope not but I have no doubt they will compose 90% of Steam survey GPUs by end of 2027. Reply
LordVile Gururu said: I hope not but I have no doubt they will compose 90% of Steam survey GPUs by end of 2027. Nah mid range from the last couple of gens will be. 60 and 70 cards are typically the most popular Reply
Notton I find it hard to believe Nvidia of all companies would do this. Why waste perfectly good 3GB GDDR7 modules on a relatively low profit margin card, when they could milk more from an RTX Pro 6000? Did 2GB GDDR6 go up in price so insanely that it's cheaper to use ultra high demand 3GB GDDR7 chips? I thought they couldn't get rid of their 5050/5060Ti 8GB stock fast enough and are sitting on a stockpile of it? Reply
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