alt Hacker News> It's not like you can afford an average decent mid/upper range GPU these days thanks to the AI bros.
I mean, Nvidia was greedy even before then and AMD just did “Nvidia - 50 USD” or thereabout.
Intel Arc tried shaking up the entry level (retailers spit on that MSRP though) but sadly didn’t make that big of a splash despite the daily experience being okay (I have the B580). Who knows, maybe their B770 will provide an okay mid range experience that doesn’t feel like being robbed.
Over here, to get an Nvidia 5060 Ti 16 GB I'd have to pay over 500 EUR which is fucking bullshit, so I don’t.
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Hmm, duopolies don't work you say? I doubt 3 will make any difference (see memory manufacturers). Then again looking at market share nvidia is a monopoly in practice.
The bad part is everyone wants to be on the AI money circle line train (see the various money flow images available) and thus everything caters for that. At this point i'd rather have nvidia and amd quit the gpu business and focus on "ai" only, that way a new competitor can enter the business and cater the the niche applications like consumer gpus.
The Intel–Nvidia collaboration has just received the green light from the competition authority, with Nvidia purchasing a 4% stake.
Nvidia is expected to sell GPU intellectual property at a bargain to the entry-level segment, making it unprofitable for Intel to develop a competitive product range. This way, Intel would lack both the competence and the infrastructure internally to eventually break Nvidia’s market share in the higher segments.