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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Hi, I'm new here. I thought Nvidia was the Gucci graphics card manufacturer. Care to recalibrate me?
gpt
Basically they saw scalpers selling 30-series cards for double the msrp, so they decided to then double the msrp of their 40-series cards. 

They also killed their best board parter, EVGA, by treating them so badly (bad enough that EVGA said they won’t make any more GPUs). 

Another thing is with the 4090’s power connector. They cheaped out on the adapter, which then caused it to sometimes melt and damage the card, but refused to do anything about it except blame the consumer for not plugging it correctly (which is BS). 

Yet another thing, is that for the 4080, they originally had two models, the 12GB and the 8GB. But the 8GB was significantly lower performing than the 12GB model. With so much lashback, they unlaunched the 8GB, renamed the 12GB to just the 4080, and then relaunched the 8GB as the 4070 Ti, but only at $100 cheaper. 

So they have really shot downhill in business practices, and are now obsessed with cooperate greed and do not care about the consumer anymore. 

The reason why they’re still popular is that for the past decade, they had a monopoly on the GPU market. They made far the best GPUs on the market and were reasonably priced, and that’s sort of how some people got ‘GeForce is for gaming’. AMD (previously ATI) was always in the market but never really competed, especially in the high end. 

But now, since the previous generation and a half, AMD has been trading blows with Nvidia in terms of performance, with significantly lower prices. The only downside is that AMD GPUs aren’t as good at raytracing, but to be honest, it kills your framerate so much that 99.9% of people don’t use it in the first place. The only really GPUs wow the buying for raytracing would be a 3080 or better. 

Now AMD has their downsides too, the vapour chamber on some their new cards isn’t working right, causing them to overheat, but at least they are recalling the ones with the problems. And their 7000 series cards are overpriced, but not to the extremities that Nvidia does.