A peculiar story of a buyer whose $4,429 order for an Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 got canceled is going around. Nvidia refunded the money and pointed at Asus. A $500 increase had landed after the order went through. The community reaction was the usual one: gouging, dishonest sellers, somebody taking advantage. None of that is wrong. It is also just how this market has run for as long as I have been buying into it.
Tagged Graphics Card
Ever-growing Graphics Card
It is without a doubt the easiest solution to improve the speed of any computer chipset is to simply bundle two in one. I’m not exactly suggesting that is the phenomenon we are seeing, though there could be an argument about Moore’s law and efficiency somewhere. This post is more or less a complaint on the trend of consumer level graphics card. The cards are simply getting larger and too heavy.