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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by KMnO4 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:51AM (#42622948)
Someone very clever at Nvidia realized that if they rename their professional card (Titan) to be part of their "gaming" line, you can convince adults with too much disposable income that they need it to play Elden Ring.

I didn't know of anyone who used the Titan cards (which were actually priced cheaper than their respective xx90 cards at release) for gaming, but somehow people were happy spending >$2000 when the 3090 came out.

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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by Cumpiler69 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:15AM (#42623201)
>but somehow people were happy spending >$2000 when the 3090 came out

Of course they did, the 3090 came out at the height of the pandemic and crypto boom in 2020, when people were locked indoors with plenty of free time and money to spare, what else where they gonna spend it on?

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Re:Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs by cptcobalt on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:58PM (#42626682)
As an adult with too much disposable income and a 3090, it just becomes a local LLM server w/ agents when I'm not playing games on it. Didn't even see the potential for it back then, but now I'm convinced that the xx90 series offers me value outside of just gaming uses.
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