The specialized press has already written several times that the prices for GDDR6 have fallen rapidly in 2024, and GDDR7 costs no more than 2 times more, which means that GDDR7 in reality, wholesale, costs pennies against the price of video cards with NVidia chips (and AMD too). Against this background, installing less than 24GB even in 5070 looks like complete stinginess and exorbitant greed on the part of NVidia. How long will the rapidly shrinking "middle class" in the West and especially in third world countries buy many times overpriced GPUs? Demand will inevitably fall with the price growth in % vs. % growth of net income of this segment of the planet's population. NVidia, of course, does not care about the consumer chip market - all interest is now concentrated in corporate deliveries, but luck with this factor is a short-term prospect, as soon as the bubble of fake "AI" deflates, and what will they do next, having lost customers in the "middle class"?...

NikoB.

I wonder how the price is going to be🙈

More interested in 5070ti laptop, the only 12gb (therefore viable) option in the midrange and I'm hoping affordable finally vs silly prices we've had for 2 years

I think the title of the article is wrong or tricky to know, should be:

RTX 5080 laptop to suffer big core count deficit vs RTX 5080 desktop while enjoying more VRAM vs RTX 4080 desktop