Posted by RobertJasiek
- January 28, 2025, 08:41:27
For RTX 3000, it made sense to queue up in the USA. In Germany with then too cold weather and very consumer-unfriendly stores with even much worse supply, not so much and I wanted to await reviews before possibly buying a particular, reasonably silent 3080 model. After the reviews, Covid, crypto etc. shot prices to up to 4 * MSRP, my allegedly lucky purchase of my preferred model at 1.3 * MSRP was not served, my allegedly lucky access to purchase a 3070 Founders Edition at MSRP was not served and all notebook designs were bad so I had to wait 3 years until I could buy a 4070 as my first GPU.
However, for RTX 5000, it makes essentially no sense to queue up because it is just exessively overpriced, overpowered RTX 4000. Buying two 4090s or some RTX 4000 Super would have made sense and, if one did, there is hardly reason to buy a 5080 or 5090.
With the following exceptions:
- scalpers
- One is a 3D gaming fan of DLSS or believes the related 2x speed marketing lies as if it was raw performance.
- One has "time is money" professional use for one or two 5090s that could not be fulfilled by two or more 4000s (e.g., if one's software can only run on one GPU), RTX ADA 6000 or Nvidia's server GPUs, or the latter two are too expensive in relation for "time is money" while, e.g., two 5090s might make financial sense by not being too expensive yet. Even so, queuing up for several days would have to be financially viable in comparison to otherwise having to wait ca. half a year before regularly buying and one needs exactly one 5090 because one would only get one voucher when queuing up at Microcenter. If one needs two or more 5090s, then queuing up makes no sense but one might pay two or more people for queuing up to avoid higher scalping prices... Which professional would be so unreasonable?
Likely, the early campers are a PR stunt, scalpers or people wanting to boast with impossible-to-get gadgets.
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