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But are they actually selling the Claw, or is it sitting on store shelves collecting dust? In GN’s review, Steve says he was the only one at the store in Taiwan that asked for one, and the clerk questioned why he wanted to buy it. The kind of customer for the Claw will tend to be computer...

It’s interesting that, just a short time ago, you have EVGA, arguably Nvidia’s best partner in terms of the product they made and no doubt selling well, walk away from a relationship with Nvidia that essentially defined their identity as a company, citing that Nvidia was increasingly difficult...

Underperforming sales of AMD GPUs, not underperforming AMD GPUs. MSI doesn’t care how the GPU performs, they care how it sells. Which brings me to your second point, because the Claw is an absolute piece of crap that isn’t selling well, and the only reason why I can think MSI went with Intel...

Bonus points if they subcontracted it to Volkswagen.

100% it’s the CPU. It looks like Intel has a significant advantage over AMD Ryzen in this software. My 7900XTX paired with my 5800x3D only managed 71409, which is far lower compared to people in this thread running Intel CPUs but slower GPUs.

+1 on this. If they're abandoning it, why not just put it out as freeware at that point and let the fans enjoy it? My buddy and I still bust out StarCraft from time to time like we did back at high school LAN parties for a few laughs, and if you don't already own it, you can get the base game...

AMD is adopting a “Nvidia price -10%” pricing model these days. Not exactly a smashing deal in most cases compared to what you could get in previous generations, especially because they have to discount because they’re behind in frame generation, frame smoothing, and RT processing. The 3080...

I’ll say there is little chance it launches at the 4090 price. I would expect at least $1800, because Nvidia knows they can get that for it. The consumer told them they could.

Yes, crypto led to the initial run up, but Nvidia is still testing the waters to see what gamers are willing to pay, and gamers lined up to buy the $1600 4090, so they have their answer. 4080 Super, which is functionally almost identical to the 4080 anyway when benchmarked, is $1000, still a...

I have no doubt this is also a contributing factor, but the bottom line is that they will charge what the market will bear. As long as market participants signal they will pay more, companies will charge more, which is why the rest of consumers are annoyed with “how other people spend their...

The 3080 had an MSRP of $699. The 4080 launched two years later with an MSRP of $1199. That’s a sharp increase in 80-series cards in a single generation. Why do you think that is? Because the market told Nvidia they were fine paying more, or at least a segment did and Nvidia decided to test...

I’m not talking about halo cards. The pricing of the entire GPU stack has been rising, and the more people show a willingness to spend excessive amounts of money on the cards, the more companies know they can charge. That’s why gamers are annoyed. It’s not about what others want to do with...

I don't think it's that as much as the fact that others showing a willingness to spend insane amounts of money on a good video card means the rest of us have to as well when we want to upgrade.

But can it run Crysis?

For what it's worth, for the price I was going to have to pay to upgrade my 1070Ti, 12GB VRAM was a non-starter for me. I keep my cards typically a little longer than you do, so my choices became 7900XT, XTX, 4080, or 4090. I was able to get a Lenovo Y32P monitor and a 7900XTX on sale for a...