Nvidia's New Graphics Cards: A Review of their Marketing Strategies and Impact on the Gaming Industry

I really screwed that one up in trauma time Nvidia apparently really forgot how to market gouge with the way they released their new GPUs and then there's another conspiracy theory around why Turing exists is because they had a huge oversupply of Pascal graphics cards nobody was buying them because they were waiting for the new generation of GPUs to come out and then when Nvidia launched this really weird overpriced architecture then everybody just went and bought all those Pascal graphics cards you can't find him in stock anymore and actually I think they they pulled another fast one with the 2080 ti I think they only built three of them so that they could go oh wow look they're sold out everywhere there must be huge demand for the 2080 Ti now not only we're graphics gods really expensive and very rare for quite a large portion of the year but ddr4 was also very expensive there was a period where nobody really knew what was going on except for the fact that we were paying significantly more money for ddr4 than we were in the same period the year before and then we started hearing news about like everybody's suing big like ddr4 chip manufacturers because they were price setting but then all of a sudden like Ram just became weirdly cheap actually like it's a pretty good time to buy Ram at the moment but all of these talks about billions of dollars worth of fines and stuff is just kind of disappeared so I think they got off with a slap on the wrist

Sk Hynix is one company that has been making headlines recently due to their involvement in the DRAM market. Naughty, I'm gonna give an honorable mention to Walmart for making this a very interesting year in PC gaming because a couple of months ago they decided that they were gonna release the overpowered series of desktop gaming pcs and then Steve at gamers Nexus decided to buy one and see what's what and we all realized that terrible things were happening there and then you know bit with black tile from bit word bought one and then Linus tech tips bought one and everybody pretty much just ripped Walmart apart but the interesting thing that this kind of scandal in pre-built market itself because people spoke a lot about pre builds but kind of like in hushed whispers and everybody would laugh if you owned one because it was a terrible excuse of PC gaming masterrace Ness

But what this whole thing with the whole Walmart thing showed was that because the hardcore enthusiasts seemed to more or less be ignoring companies that made pre-built gaming machines they were taking the market for a ride so then Linus did the whole buying $1500 PC from everyone to make sure which one was the best and who is screwing you.

I don't really know where I was going with that thank you very much for watching the video like this video if you enjoyed it and share it with your friends subscribe to the channel if you want to see more videos like this one and until the next one bye bye

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enif you're a PC gamer that more or less follows the trends of technology and hardware and so on you've probably noticed that 2018 has been a pretty weird year for us in this video I'm gonna walk you through why I think this has been the weirdest year in PC hardware as long as I can remember and I'm pretty old now with reason number one the PC gaming community started off the year with a bang with the great GPU shortage of Oh 18 is that something you can say but don't know of 18 the great GPU depression of all time it was really weird you couldn't find a graphics card anywhere and if you could find one it was for like three times the price of MSRP and its really weird because the graphics card scene kind of turned into American politics everybody was blaming everybody for why graphics cards cost so much and then everybody kind of for some reason ganged up against the Chinese didn't really make any sense anyway I don't remember any time in history when it was that difficult and expensive to find a graphics card if you can remember a time like I do let me know in the comment section below now reason number two for why I think this has been the weirdest year in PC gaming is because of the whole Intel vs. AMD thing now I know that it doesn't on the surface seem as though it's been any weirder this year than it's ever been in the past but let me walk you through my thinking now in 2017 AMD launched the rise in CPUs which really brought the fight back to Intel with you know many cores in a cheap CPU and it really challenged the quad core monopoly that Intel was holding on to and then in 2018 they launched the Refresh should be CPUs which closed the gap in gaming performance between the Intel and AMD CPUs so whenever you read on the internet there were all these articles about how much market share AMD's been taking back from Intel and if you look on forums where people ask what CPUs to buy there's almost always a bunch of recommendation for rising CPUs and it's not surprising because they are very good value for money but when you look at the actual market share that AMD has been taking back yes they have been taking a couple percent here and there but if you look at a graph that gives you more of a broad picture over it's in the last ten years I do want to put a bit of a disclaimer here I don't know how reliable whose actual graph is but you'll see that there was periods during the actual quad-core monopoly from Intel where AMD had no competition they had no CPU that genuinely was a proper proposition against the Intel CPUs but they still had more market share than AMD has now so it seems as though no matter how much Intel act like a drunk weight gaming Christmas period bad don't know if that makes any sense but no matter how crazy lis they act they're not losing any significant chunk of market share to AMD even though they have a very good value proposition in their risin line up so with the h EDT series of cpus intel just kind of re-released the same cpus but soldered them and then in the process of soldiering them it kind of made them worse but like not really and then with the main mainstream cpus it was also a bit weird because they stratified their cpu lineup even more which means if you're not very in tune with how their product stack works it's really difficult to know what you're buying because for some reason now like i7 doesn't have hyper threading why is i7 not hyper threading I mean I thought that was the difference between it and i-5 and it doesn't really make any sense and then the i-9 is super expensive for what it offers yes the 9900 K is the fastest mainstream CPU but it's very expensive and very hot but ya know it's it's just weird that like AMD doesn't seem to be gaining as market as much market share as everybody seems to think they are 2018 has been a really weird year for video they started off the year with all of their graphics cards being sold out everywhere and then everybody blamed them because they were apparently in cahoots with other people and cryptocurrency mining and you know stuff meant that everybody was angry at everyone and then a lot of people on the internet including me thought that the solution to the GPU drought would be for Nvidia to launch a new series of graphics cards and everybody shouted hungrily for new graphics cards to be launched and Pascal is long in the tooth and we need more power for black whatever and then Nvidia actually releases touring GPUs and then everybody kind of regrets wanting them to release them because they're cost like they cost thousands of dollars and they're kind of naming structure is weird and they have a new technology that makes people uncomfortable like why do they have a mainstream gaming graphics card that costs $1,200 and why did they release the TI version of their highest end graphics card with the rest of the lineup I mean they've never done that before although conspiracy time I actually think they did that because they didn't want the highest end version of the new graphics card not comfortably outperforming the highest end version of the previous generation because if they didn't release the 2080 TI and the 2080 was the highest end card it would have been really weird because it costs more than the 1080 ti but somehow it doesn't perform significantly better and then with ray-tracing it's also like they put everything on the line with ray tracing like they put ray tracing in the name of the new graphics cards and it's completely unproven until like battlefield 5 gets a patch with it and then everybody realizes that it just screws your GPUs and you lose like half of your frame rates for reflections that if anything kind of looks worse so yeah Nvidia really kind of forgot how to mock how to market gay gouge well I really screwed that one up in trauma time Nvidia apparently really forgot how to market gouge with the way they released their new GPUs and then there's another conspiracy theory around why Turing exists is because they had a huge oversupply of Pascal graphics cards nobody was buying them because they were waiting for the new generation of GPUs to come out and then when Nvidia launched this really weird overpriced architecture then everybody just went and bought all those Pascal graphics cards you can't find him in stock anymore and actually I think they they pulled another fast one with the 2080 ti I think they only built three of them so that they could go oh wow look they're sold out everywhere there must be huge demand for the 2080 Ti now not only we're graphics gods really expensive and very rare for quite a large portion of the year but ddr4 was also very expensive there was a period where nobody really knew what was going on except for the fact that we were paying significantly more money for ddr4 than we were in the same period the year before and then we started hearing news about like everybody's suing big like ddr4 chip manufacturers because they were price setting but then all of a sudden like Ram just became weirdly cheap actually like it's a pretty good time to buy Ram at the moment but all of these talks about billions of dollars worth of fines and stuff is just kind of disappeared so I think they got off with a slap on the wrist let me know in the comment section below if you've heard anything more about what's actually happening to these companies if they have to pay for that bad naughty square hynek's sk hynix square rhynocs square Enix that's a game manufacture a factory that's a game producer I think SK Hynix naughty I'm gonna give an honorable mention to Walmart for making this a very interesting year in PC gaming because a couple of months ago they decided that they were gonna release the overpowered series of desktop gaming pcs and then Steve at gamers Nexus decided to buy one and see what's what and we all realized that terrible things were happening there and then you know bit with black tile from bit word bought one and then Linus tech tips bought one and everybody pretty much just ripped Walmart apart but the interesting thing that this kind of scandal in pre builds brought to attention was just the pre-built market itself because people spoke a lot about pre bolts but kind of like in hushed whispers and everybody would laugh if you owned one because it was a terrible excuse of PC gaming masterrace Ness but what this whole thing with the whole Walmart thing showed was that because the kind of like hardcore enthusiasts seemed to more or less nor companies that made pre-built gaming machines they were taking the market for a ride so then Linus did the whole buying $1500 PC from everyone to make sure which one was the best and who is screwing you and now with that retrospective over I think it's time to warm up the eggnog curl up around a fire to ward off the snow or if you're in the southern hemisphere like me try and stay out of the hell heat outside but yeah that's don't really know where I was going with that thank you very much for watching the video like this video if you enjoyed it and share it with your friends subscribe to the channel if you want to see more videos like this one and until the next one bye byeif you're a PC gamer that more or less follows the trends of technology and hardware and so on you've probably noticed that 2018 has been a pretty weird year for us in this video I'm gonna walk you through why I think this has been the weirdest year in PC hardware as long as I can remember and I'm pretty old now with reason number one the PC gaming community started off the year with a bang with the great GPU shortage of Oh 18 is that something you can say but don't know of 18 the great GPU depression of all time it was really weird you couldn't find a graphics card anywhere and if you could find one it was for like three times the price of MSRP and its really weird because the graphics card scene kind of turned into American politics everybody was blaming everybody for why graphics cards cost so much and then everybody kind of for some reason ganged up against the Chinese didn't really make any sense anyway I don't remember any time in history when it was that difficult and expensive to find a graphics card if you can remember a time like I do let me know in the comment section below now reason number two for why I think this has been the weirdest year in PC gaming is because of the whole Intel vs. AMD thing now I know that it doesn't on the surface seem as though it's been any weirder this year than it's ever been in the past but let me walk you through my thinking now in 2017 AMD launched the rise in CPUs which really brought the fight back to Intel with you know many cores in a cheap CPU and it really challenged the quad core monopoly that Intel was holding on to and then in 2018 they launched the Refresh should be CPUs which closed the gap in gaming performance between the Intel and AMD CPUs so whenever you read on the internet there were all these articles about how much market share AMD's been taking back from Intel and if you look on forums where people ask what CPUs to buy there's almost always a bunch of recommendation for rising CPUs and it's not surprising because they are very good value for money but when you look at the actual market share that AMD has been taking back yes they have been taking a couple percent here and there but if you look at a graph that gives you more of a broad picture over it's in the last ten years I do want to put a bit of a disclaimer here I don't know how reliable whose actual graph is but you'll see that there was periods during the actual quad-core monopoly from Intel where AMD had no competition they had no CPU that genuinely was a proper proposition against the Intel CPUs but they still had more market share than AMD has now so it seems as though no matter how much Intel act like a drunk weight gaming Christmas period bad don't know if that makes any sense but no matter how crazy lis they act they're not losing any significant chunk of market share to AMD even though they have a very good value proposition in their risin line up so with the h EDT series of cpus intel just kind of re-released the same cpus but soldered them and then in the process of soldiering them it kind of made them worse but like not really and then with the main mainstream cpus it was also a bit weird because they stratified their cpu lineup even more which means if you're not very in tune with how their product stack works it's really difficult to know what you're buying because for some reason now like i7 doesn't have hyper threading why is i7 not hyper threading I mean I thought that was the difference between it and i-5 and it doesn't really make any sense and then the i-9 is super expensive for what it offers yes the 9900 K is the fastest mainstream CPU but it's very expensive and very hot but ya know it's it's just weird that like AMD doesn't seem to be gaining as market as much market share as everybody seems to think they are 2018 has been a really weird year for video they started off the year with all of their graphics cards being sold out everywhere and then everybody blamed them because they were apparently in cahoots with other people and cryptocurrency mining and you know stuff meant that everybody was angry at everyone and then a lot of people on the internet including me thought that the solution to the GPU drought would be for Nvidia to launch a new series of graphics cards and everybody shouted hungrily for new graphics cards to be launched and Pascal is long in the tooth and we need more power for black whatever and then Nvidia actually releases touring GPUs and then everybody kind of regrets wanting them to release them because they're cost like they cost thousands of dollars and they're kind of naming structure is weird and they have a new technology that makes people uncomfortable like why do they have a mainstream gaming graphics card that costs $1,200 and why did they release the TI version of their highest end graphics card with the rest of the lineup I mean they've never done that before although conspiracy time I actually think they did that because they didn't want the highest end version of the new graphics card not comfortably outperforming the highest end version of the previous generation because if they didn't release the 2080 TI and the 2080 was the highest end card it would have been really weird because it costs more than the 1080 ti but somehow it doesn't perform significantly better and then with ray-tracing it's also like they put everything on the line with ray tracing like they put ray tracing in the name of the new graphics cards and it's completely unproven until like battlefield 5 gets a patch with it and then everybody realizes that it just screws your GPUs and you lose like half of your frame rates for reflections that if anything kind of looks worse so yeah Nvidia really kind of forgot how to mock how to market gay gouge well I really screwed that one up in trauma time Nvidia apparently really forgot how to market gouge with the way they released their new GPUs and then there's another conspiracy theory around why Turing exists is because they had a huge oversupply of Pascal graphics cards nobody was buying them because they were waiting for the new generation of GPUs to come out and then when Nvidia launched this really weird overpriced architecture then everybody just went and bought all those Pascal graphics cards you can't find him in stock anymore and actually I think they they pulled another fast one with the 2080 ti I think they only built three of them so that they could go oh wow look they're sold out everywhere there must be huge demand for the 2080 Ti now not only we're graphics gods really expensive and very rare for quite a large portion of the year but ddr4 was also very expensive there was a period where nobody really knew what was going on except for the fact that we were paying significantly more money for ddr4 than we were in the same period the year before and then we started hearing news about like everybody's suing big like ddr4 chip manufacturers because they were price setting but then all of a sudden like Ram just became weirdly cheap actually like it's a pretty good time to buy Ram at the moment but all of these talks about billions of dollars worth of fines and stuff is just kind of disappeared so I think they got off with a slap on the wrist let me know in the comment section below if you've heard anything more about what's actually happening to these companies if they have to pay for that bad naughty square hynek's sk hynix square rhynocs square Enix that's a game manufacture a factory that's a game producer I think SK Hynix naughty I'm gonna give an honorable mention to Walmart for making this a very interesting year in PC gaming because a couple of months ago they decided that they were gonna release the overpowered series of desktop gaming pcs and then Steve at gamers Nexus decided to buy one and see what's what and we all realized that terrible things were happening there and then you know bit with black tile from bit word bought one and then Linus tech tips bought one and everybody pretty much just ripped Walmart apart but the interesting thing that this kind of scandal in pre builds brought to attention was just the pre-built market itself because people spoke a lot about pre bolts but kind of like in hushed whispers and everybody would laugh if you owned one because it was a terrible excuse of PC gaming masterrace Ness but what this whole thing with the whole Walmart thing showed was that because the kind of like hardcore enthusiasts seemed to more or less nor companies that made pre-built gaming machines they were taking the market for a ride so then Linus did the whole buying $1500 PC from everyone to make sure which one was the best and who is screwing you and now with that retrospective over I think it's time to warm up the eggnog curl up around a fire to ward off the snow or if you're in the southern hemisphere like me try and stay out of the hell heat outside but yeah that's don't really know where I was going with that thank you very much for watching the video like this video if you enjoyed it and share it with your friends subscribe to the channel if you want to see more videos like this one and until the next one bye bye