What sources ? its just a rehash of the same Chiphell info from the weekend with some educated from the couple of extra bits of info that came with.
Just seem like something to drive clicks and views
It has been said, from legit sources, that the cooler alone costs $150 each to make. That's not sold on to us as a profit, that is the cost to make each one.
When you make a cooler like that at that price you are so far up your own a**e that all reality is gone. Nvidia want to be Apple *so* bad. However, for someone to actually get away with that you need to offer something that your buyers will see as truly exclusive. Not just the fastest (which I have absolutely no doubt it will be) but also the most exquisitely built.
Whilst none of us like it Nvidia sold a butt load of 20 series cards and made a huge profit. So when the rumours were going around that the 30 series would be much cheaper I knew then that that particular rumour was total BS. When you are winning by such a huge lead you can totally take the pee. There is no one and nothing to give you a slap back to reality. So maybe they are cheaper to produce the GPU cores? that's OK, they will make a $150 cooler.
Big Navi may well be as fast as a 2080Ti. Big whoop (I am being sarcastic here btw). The 2080Ti was a cobbled together card that replaced Ampere at the last minute. Why? because Nvidia probably realised just how far ahead it would be so instead made the 20 series by shrinking Pascal and bolting on some RT cores, Tensor cores, whatever you want to call them. I heard that Ampere just wasn't ready so it was an executive decision to just go with the 20 series. They were always going to win any way.
I have also heard that actual game performance on the 3080 will be about 10-15% better than the 2080Ti. However, the RT aspect will be massively improved. That I can believe also, given that Turing was probably never even meant to exist.
So if you have a card that sits at the bottom of your high end stack that beats the big Navi by the expected 15%
and then you have two more cards on your stack that utterly obliterate it? why would you sell it cheap? Sure, selling it cheap may demean AMD and make them look stupid (and cost them profit on their high end cards) but it would also mean taking less for Nvidia. Something that no corporation will ever want to do. When you have proven that people
will absolutely pay £1300 for a GPU then why the heck would you stop?
There will be value where there is competition and nowhere else. The only reason Nvidia did us all the huge favour of releasing the slightly faster Super cards and dropping them to even remotely affordable levels was because of Navi. When there is no Navi they can charge whatever they want.
It also looks like they are dropping the Titan this time too, and giving us the 3090Ti. Why? because why make a card that is so grossly over priced over your desktop cards when you can just make it a desktop card, add it to the god like performance stack and get more people to buy it because whilst they could excuse not buying a Titan card over a 80Ti it's going to be hard for them to accept that by doing that there's a better card out there with a higher number that makes their epeen look even bigger.
