Nvidia Sells RTX GPUs From a 'Food Truck' (pcworld.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/03/20/170225/nvidia-sells-rtx-gpus-from-a-food-truck
- Source link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2643886/nvidia-sells-rtx-gpus-from-a-food-truck.html
[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2643886/nvidia-sells-rtx-gpus-from-a-food-truck.html
Careful! (Score:1)
If ICE hears about this your food truck vendors will disappear!
Pay play and hope (Score:3, Insightful)
Pay for some conference, to have a chance, to maybe go find some "food truck" that has no food, to get the opportunity, to give Nvidia a lot of your money, for some dumb GPU they choose to manufacture in small numbers. Let's all play stupid gameshows for stupid prizes.
Lol no. (Score:1)
I'll keep my money. NVIDIA isn't even worth it anymore. I have money. I won't spend more than $600 on a graphics card. I'd prefer they just leave the market completely. At this point, why make new cards that you don't even want to sell except at pure greed levels. They could make more cards. They'd rather watch their little pay pigs throw money at them even when they don't need it. It's all about AI now.
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If you're at NVidia GTC, you're probably not buying these cards to play games on them. You're either trying to develop a next generation graphics engine, or you're trying to run your own local AI model.
Either way, you're probably expensing this overpriced graphics card to your employer when you get home.
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That's not even hyperbole. [1]Gaming makes up like a fifth of their revenue or less these days. [visualcapitalist.com] NVidia without the bubble is dead.
[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/nvidia-revenue-by-product-line/
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Probably they're still making as much money on gaming as in 2019; it's just that the percentage shrunk. So they're not going to die, they're going to go back to their pre-bubble state.
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I was one of the early buyers of the Arc Battlemage. I love it, it's been trouble free and a massive upgrade from my Radeon 6600. Just under $300 shipped.
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The Battlemage is a pretty impressive and promising card, but most benchmark sites are putting it about on par with the 6600. More VRAM on the Battlemage which is nice but speed wise about the same.
I've got a 6600 XT and will either do a 700 series Battlemage if they come out or a 9070 XT, but I'm in now big hurry to upgrade.
$1000 just for a ticket? (Score:4, Interesting)
So many questions:
Does that $1k ticket guarantee the opportunity to buy?
Can you get a refund if you don't buy?
Does the $1k toward your GPU purchase?
Or is this all just $1k price for a ticket to even go to GTC, and lucky you, you can buy a card at MSRP?
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1k for a professional conference with networking opportunities is very typical.
That's the cost of a 1 day pass at GDC these days, and I've seen similar prices in the professional author space when publishers are attending and soliciting work(I'm not an author). As a programmer, things have historically been a bit cheaper, mostly because there doesn't seem to be One Big Name in the software industry, so they have to compete.
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The thousand bucks gets you a T-Shirt with Jensen's face on it, and a chance to buy an RTX 50 from a dilapidated van that smells like bean burritos.
How are they served? (Score:2)
> Nvidia is selling its scarce RTX 5080 and 5090 graphics cards from a pop-up "food truck" ...
Do fries come the them and how is the 5090 prepared: baked, steamed, fried or just [1]melted [theverge.com]? :-)
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/609207/nvidia-rtx-5090-power-connector-melting-burning-issues
Chip and Chips (Score:2)
> Do fries come the them and how is the 5090 prepared
Bringing Fish and Chips into the digital age: one chip is used to fry the other.
Clearly not a "food truck" (Score:3)
If there is no facility to make food within said truck..... then it's not a food truck.
"upgrades! upgrade! get your upgrades here!" (Score:1)
....inching closer to a Cyberpunk world. "upgrades! upgrade! get your upgrades here!" or if you older like me the Syndicate 1993 video game
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Ohh memories! great game, the Syndicate!
Food Truck name (Score:3)
Phish 'n chips
need more Pokemon hype (Score:1)
NVIDIA cards dropping like Pokemon boxes at Costco
Pricey Chips! (Score:1)
Pricey Chips!