Head to the Winchester, grab a pint and wait for those GPU prices to come down
Seems to be at least slightly true, by my amateur judgement. Sometimes I use https://vast.ai, and seems there is more offers than usual, currently ~180 instances available for rent.
Not really, no:
https://wccftech.com/hours-into-the-eth-merge-nvidia-geforce...
New 3000 series retail prices on the high end cards have been steadily dropping, and it seems like on ebay used prices have dropped 10% in the last month.
As for the 4000 series cards - they've stated in SEC filings that they will be trickling out stock to keep prices high.
AMD are the ones who are really fucked; their cards suck, and nobody bought them out of choice but desperation. Now that the market is glutted, people will heavily prefer nvidia cards.
Do they really suck? From some benchmarks i saw there are cards comparable to 3060-3070s (the 6800 IIRC) which is solid midrange competition.
All of this is accepted industry fact, and your devolving the discussion to personal insults is proof of this; otherwise you would have come armed with actual tests and reviews.
NVIDIA does have much higher market share and brand recognition from both ML and gamers for now, but AMD has been firing on all cylinders for quite a few years, and has built a terrific open source driver codebase to further refine.
Even throughout the 2010s AMD offered price-competitive models that definitely didn’t “suck” for what they cost, or require “desperation” to purchase.
I bought only AMD equipment for the last few years out of despise for the market manipulation by Intel/nVidia (see Intel x86 compiler/nVidia GameWorks, both not optimizing for their equipment but deoptimizing for competitors), and I have gotten completely adequate gear for the price paid. Not so much despair here.