Why I'm worried about the Nvidia RTX 50 series

Aleksha writes: "Nvidia has established itself as a dominant force in the world of AI, but I can't shake the worry of what this means for the RTX 50 series."

[Tal169]

Echo sentiment here - I think the way GPUs are going, gaming could be secondary to deep learning. Wonder if the 40 series was the last true generation of GPUs?

[Number1TailzFan]

No.. Jensen believes GPUs should stay expensive. Those wanting a top end GPU will have to splash out for it, or play at just 1080p and 60fps or something if you can only afford a low end option.

On the other hand if you don't care about RT or AI performance then there's always AMD that are doing ok at the mid range.

[Christopher]

***or play at just 1080p and 60fps or something***

My over 2-year-old laptop GPU still runs fine. I think this is more a reason why GPUs are going to other things in priority, because the market reach for new users is shrinking as more PC gamers focus less on replacing older and still working parts that run RT/AI fine enough as it is. Not to say there aren't people who still do it, but I think the market is shrinking for having the latest and greatest like it has been the past two decades. Problem is we aren't growing things at a rate as we were, we're reaching the the flattening of that exponential curve in regards to advancement. We need another major technological advancement to restart that curve.

[D0nkeyBoi]

The irremoval ad makes it impossible to read article

[Tzuno]

I hope Intel takes some lead and do a big dent to nvidia sales

[Jingsing]

You also need to consider that NVIDIA are heavily invested in cloud gaming. So they are likely going to make moves to push you into yet another life subscription service.

[Kayser81]

NVIDIA will never change their price point until AMD or intel makes a GPU that is comparable and cheaper than them .
it happend before in the days of gtx280 which they changed the price from 650$ to 450$ in a matter of 2 weeks because of rx4870 which is being sold at 380$.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

The prices are so out of reach for most people, I think the best thing to come out of it will be the price reduction of 30 and 40 series cards, people who have been hanging on with 5 plus year old GPUs (the 9, 10 and 20 series) will be tempted to grab one of those cards. The pricing on 40 series GPU is awful, especially when you look at poor value for money choices like the 4080, most suspect that was done on purpose to encourage people to fork out for the 4090 instead.