Do you think in the future GPU prices will keep increasing ?
From deep learning purpose, RTX 4090 electricity cost, and another cost is much decreased, but I think GPU cost will be nearly same…
1 Petaflop with RTX 4090 will consume about 5.14 Kilowatt, but 1 Petaflop with RTX 3090 Ti will consume about 11.52 Kilowatt, and air conditioning related cost will be decreased too…
1 Petaflop with RTX 4090 needs only about 12 GPU, but with RTX 3090 Ti will needs about 25 GPU, and this will be reduce PCIe lanes requirements, also decrease in motherboard and CPU cost too…
But for GPU cost I think it’s nearly same, do you think this trend will keep like this in the future ?
It comes in cycles and the market will pay whatever price the market will bear.
Currently we are seeing price decreases from the market across the board and we will keep seeing $200-$300 mainstream cards (like the 6650 XT after AMDs recent price reduction, or the $179 6500 XT slowly approaching a decent price now). This has to do with a) Covid being mostly dealt with and b) Proof-of-stake Ethereum making GPU mining a loss affair with the current energy prices.
Now, Nvidia is trying to pull an Apple stunt and give you the biggest, bestiest, baddest card on the market, from $900+. Yes you get moar POWAH from these cards, but they are hot, loud and will cost you $$ to run. Hope you got a spare SMR Nuclear Reactor in your back yard…
Meanwhile AMD (atleast according to MLID) will most probably consistently price their new cards at around 30% cheaper than Nvidia for the same performance, and will sip power instead of letting it all flow freely. So it will cost you ¢¢ instead of $$
And to be perfectly honest, if your integrated GPU can do 4k@60 Hz with Low->Medium settings, many will settle for that especially as 4k allows for 1080p “native” resolution. The integrated graphics will be capable of such feats by 2026-2027 ish.
You mean older tech that depreciates in value, especially when its no longer being made. Sure. But for GPU’s I’ve only seen price increases.
What you are probably getting confused with is the gouging period we’re still getting over where prices are now coming back down to original MSRP and even below that for some things.
Vendors are desperate to sell old stock before new generation of cards arrive. NVIDIA has tackled this issue by just making new generation of cards allot more expensive, and don’t give me that “but there faster so they must cost more” nonsense. New tech is always going to be faster otherwise why’d anyone buy a new CPU or GPU?
Its called deflation. In a situation people don’t want or are worried to spend the price of goods, specially frivolous products made for entertainment will go down.
The thing about prices is that they are sticky.
When you think about market dynamics a good analogy is to imagine honey being put into a jar. Honey, unlike water takes some time to even out. I think economists refers to this as velocity but I’m not sure.
Yeah. What ever happened to new and faster being the incentive to buy? Now ‘new and faster’ is only a justification for higher cost. It is this conundrum that pisses me off about new technology.
Just because more and more expensive cards exist does not mean they are mainstream.
The 4000 series specs (well 4090 anyway. The 080s are comparatively poor value) are ridiculous. That’s why they’re expensive. Nvidia is making them because they can. And there’s proven to be a as small ultra high end market for them.
You can still game just fine with a 250-500 dollar GPU today.
