• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      19 days ago

      After the last one they never really lowered prices back, we were still buying near crypto era priced GPUs before the AI boom.

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      19 days ago

      GPU prices have gone up and up since RTX 2000 era, basically.

      My 3090 is about as expensive than it was at launch, 6 years ago.

      There were crypto slumps, many moons ago, but I don’t think that’s happening again.

      • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        Anecdotally, according to the internet my ~14 year old graphics card is worth more than 2x what I paid for it. So…