{"id":3760,"date":"2025-02-01T00:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2025-02-01T00:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T07:35:52","slug":"here-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/3760\/","title":{"rendered":"…Here be clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, it was a paper launch<\/a>. But at least it’s a funny one:<\/p>\n

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The question everyone is asking is why has Nvidia done this? And the answer should be quite obvious, since Covid and then the AI craze. These videocards didn’t sell out because of the demand, but because of lack of stocks. Artificial (perceived) scarcity is what Nvidia uses to keep the prices high. Essentially one giant psyop.<\/p>\n

Same as people wondering why the whole game industry is in a terrible ongoing crisis with all the layoffs. Wasn’t it an extremely flourishing sector up to 2019? People blame the Covid bubble, then blame AI. The AI is the correct answer, but for a different motivation. Devs aren’t being fired because replaced by AI. The simple reason is that the whole global economy is a giant joke. The game industry was blooming because of investors. The AI craze is not driven by utility or potential, EVEN in cases where they are justified, it’s once again driven purely by perception and hype.<\/p>\n

Simply: all the money that was in the videogame industry rapidly shifted to AIs. Same as just a few days ago the whole tech sector crashed because, once again, the “perception” of a Chinese AI. There’s very little impact on the realities of these circumstances, it’s all a psyop. Although it is a psyop likely outside of anyone’s hands. It’s a capitalist psyop that is ran onto us as humanity. Driven by… absolutely no one. <\/p>\n

A Dark God of Nothing.<\/p>\n

If I had to buy a new videocard, right now, I’d probably get a 7900 XTX. I’d be absolutely fine with raw performance and I don’t give a single shit about RTX or DLSS.<\/p>\n

There’s still a giant problem with AMD videocards and that one model in particular. They have way, way too high energy absorption. Powerful enough, but inefficient.<\/p>\n

If AMD is able to improve consistently in that area with the 9070 XT I would gladly make the switch (with the added bonus of not giving money to the spreading cancer that is Nvidia).<\/p>\n

Not only that, but if it had some 20Gb of ram for less than 1k price (the old 7900 has 24Gb, I only want something in that range but with acceptable efficiency and power draw), it would destroy Nvidia in general, not just in my own personal case. AMD simply isn’t even trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, it was a paper launch. But at least it’s a funny one: The question everyone is asking is why has Nvidia done this? And the answer should be quite obvious, since Covid and then the AI craze. These videocards didn’t sell out because of the demand, but because of lack of stocks. Artificial (perceived) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}