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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
DS426 Notton said: 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? I don't see how the economics pans out either; I couldn't be more surprised, lol. I know AMD is churning through a lot of GDDR6, but that's still nothing compared to AI-related demand for nVidia GPU's and therefore GDDR7. Why there is ANY engineering and other resources going into a 5050 refresh is mind-boggling. Maybe it's more of a streamlining and simplifying effort as then nVidia doesn't have to source any GDDR6. Or how about this: they asked their AI and it told them it was a good idea. :ROFLMAO: Reply
beyondlogic Notton said: 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? why would they do this simply to bump up there higher cards in price its a price bumping method. sell this card for 300 then bump the rest up lol. depending on if this is real though id buy it if it comes in small form factor amds Achilles heel is it has zero small form factor cards that are decent. Reply
thestryker Notton said: Did 2GB GDDR6 go up in price so insanely that it's cheaper to use ultra high demand 3GB GDDR7 chips? The 5050 is the only current card using GDDR6 which means their purchasing volume is much lower. It may actually be cheaper for them to use 3x 3GB GDDR7 packages than 4x 2GB GDDR6 even though on the open market it wouldn't be. Getting more cards out of fewer packages might be part of it as well. Reply
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