The GPU market is built on a broken foundation

More than a month after their reveal at CES 2025 , I think it's fair to say NVIDIA's 50 series RTX GPUs are a disappointment. Between manufacturing issues , the company's misleading marketing around the 5070 and minimal performance gains over the 40 series, this might be one of NVIDIA's worst releases in recent memory. But the worst part of it all has been watching history repeat itself. Looking back at the last few weeks, I'm reminded of an article I wrote in 2022 . The short of it was I bought an RTX 3070 in August of that year, or little more than two years before NVIDIA announced the GeForce 40 series. Plenty of readers rightfully pointed out that I was wrong about the effect the crypto market would have on future pricing, but I think my underlying reasoning was sound. I bought the 3070 when I did because I had a feeling NVIDIA's new GPUs would cost more than their 30 series counterparts and that finding a new card at release for a reasonable price would be nearly impossible. And ... Read full article.