Sorry if I’m not the first to bring this up. It seems like a simple enough solution.
All of Lemmy and all of Reddit could comply with this without it making a difference.
And the last card I bought was a 1060, a lot of us are already basically doing this.
You have not successfully unionized gaming hardware customers with this post.
People did stop buying them. Their consumer GPU shipments are the lowest they’ve been in over a decade.
But consumer habits aren’t the reason for the high prices. It’s the exploding AI market. Nvidia makes even higher margins on chips they allocate to parts for machine learning in data centers. As it is, they can’t make enough chips to fill the demand for AI.
Just like Chrome will stop being anti-consumer when people stop using it. Or Blizzard will stop being terrible if people stop buying their games. People are not very good at this whole “voting with your wallet” thing.
No, actually I don’t need to buy the worse product. Privacy considerations are part of the package, just like price and performance are.
I use firefox, because in the performance - privacy - price consideration it beats chrome.
I have a Nvidia graphics card, because being able to run CUDA applications at home beats AMD.
They have enough datacenters buying their products, they don’t need consumers so they can wait more than the average user…
I personally am done with gaming because if I must spend a thousand euros, I’ll spend it in bicicle parts and accessories and not on one single piece of hardware for a decent PC.
Why would datacenters be buying consumer grade cards? Nvidia has the A series cards for enterprise that are basically identical to consumer ones but with features useful for enterprise unlocked.
They don’t but Nvidia diverts some of its production towards gaming chips. If nobody buys graphics cards they can easily keep a stash of those chips to sell down the line and go 100% on datacenter products.
