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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

There... is only a single, mainline, broadly available RTX GPU with 32gb VRAM.

It's the 5090 RTX.

Which came out in January of 2025.

At an MSRP of $2,000.

With many partner models considerably exceeding that, up to as high as $5,000.

Not only is the pricing ludicrous, the timing is not possible.

The only thing in 2024 or prior I can find with 32 gb vram is basically an unofficial mod or variant called the RTX 4090 D, that never left China, or, maybe it would be something like about as hard to find as a GRE variant AMD card in the US.

I guess unless this person's uncle works at ~~Nintendo~~ Nvidia, or something.

Outside of that, we're talking workstation/server type GPUs, generally with even more ludicrous pricing.

This person is either very confused or very bad at lying.

Also wtf does 'maxed out the system ram' even mean?

You can get 128gb of sys ram into... most middle to higher tier mobos with 4 dimm slots. Many higher tier pc mobos can do 256gb.

???