NVIDIA reportedly raises GPU prices by 10-15% as manufacturing costs surge — tariffs and TSMC price hikes filter down to retailers

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/...wn-to-retailers

pc gaming is dead in Malaysia, and it's going to be more dead than ever.

in us right? right? right? oh no

Habislah

AMD has won this gen

AMD slow and steady wins the race

RM20k 5090 inkambing

also..just buy 2nd hand GPU..

why need to buy the latest and greatest?

This post has been edited by Baconateer: May 12 2025, 07:49 PM

good, this hobby is too expensive for me after covid. will wait until my 3070 die then goodbye gaming f4ever.

This post has been edited by HumanExtinction: May 12 2025, 07:52 PM

They say no effect one on those outside of US lol

Looks like oc gaming really becoming a luxury hobby

meanwhile the driver is falling apart at the seams

Gaming as a whole will get more expensive.
Nvidia prices are already high, this will just make it worse.

Console prices will go up too.
Nintendo switch 2 pricing and setting 80-90 USD game prices will just drive prices up for everyone.

This post has been edited by LegendLee: May 12 2025, 08:06 PM

Those who buy early now can resell to earn profit

habis la.

Console gaming je lah

Time to go back ahoi gaming…owai

anyway rtx5090 or whatever flagship card came in the future should use titan moniker instead, it doesnt make sense to call it consumer card anymore, it should be categorized as premium luxuty product instead.

Ada wang, ada gaming. Tarak wang, jangan gaming.

Nope, guess where AMD get their chips again?

AMD also uses fake MSRP strategy.

Ok ma, AMDK always say barang naik is good. Cheap products is dumping.

PC gaming: Expensive gaming hardware but cheapest games.

Console gaming: cheapest base console but expensive games, expensive peripherals and need subscription to play online.

Cukur I'm still playing my PS5 and leave behind the PC master arm race

and dont forget nintendo just update tnc....
they got right to brick the console as they like....

Actually public should ask who are actually buying their latest cards which costs the price of a compact car?

Upwards 10k a unit each.

Just to play games really? How can they be so laku that always out of stock?

Would a regular person spend that kind of amount of money on a card which costs almost a car downpayment or a nice 2nd hand car.

Last time they hype was about using them for crypto mining equipments.

Today it's for AI learning and development.

Are their big customers mostly government agencies and MNCs themselves now?

Some developers/publishers are worth supporting.

But majority of developers today.... are way too predatory.
Console (first) games tend to run poorly on PC too.
Paying full price for a game that is buggy feels horrible.

actually if you wait for sales, the game price in psn is quite similar to steam wan.

Price naik no problem 😬

Their own tariff?

tak nak wait GTA6 ke?

Many games no matter how many years u wait, the lowest console price also cannot beat Steam sales price. Also, our Msia Steam price is set lower than many developed country region pricing. But on Sony PlayStation, our local pricing has no such treatment, many times I see some games actually more expensive in Msia PSN store compare to US PSN converted price

Thanks
I'll stick to old games anyway. Don't care about new releases. No need latest hardware

PS5 has the lousiest controller ever built, the stick drift will happen very fast, and there’s no affordable alternative PS5 controller with “Hall effect” analog stick.

Intend to upgrade my gpu to rtx5070 but it's not like i got many latest game to play nor got time to play...just butt itchy only...lol

This post has been edited by dman: May 12 2025, 09:13 PM

see youtube can dy... lately really no energy and passion to play games anymore.. even new games i play less than 15 mins delete dy..

This post has been edited by HumanExtinction: May 12 2025, 09:40 PM

its the same as how gacha games still alive today, the whales are funding the games themselves

GPU imports to Malaysia surge by 3,400% in 2025, raising alarm amid smuggling investigations ----- which Ktard that will make us been banned later? kanina ktard

cukur i got my 4080 at rm4.8k a year ago before all this shiet comes down

Even 2nd hand GPU nowadays can buy a kapcai

I believe all first party controllers are still not using Hall Effect sticks.
Xbox Controllers, Nintendo joycon (even for upcoming Switch 2) and DualSense are not using HE sticks.

I'm currently still using dual sense for more than 4 years.
It drifted and I just replaced the joystick with a HE stick. Worked well ever since then, so much so that I'm using it to play steam games too.

3080 below 2k i think can buy

yeah i kinda give up on this.
move from desktop to gaming laptop.
now using stimdik just dock it to my tv and play the games i want.
aaa games nowadays are woke rubbish anyway, so skip!

for all those data centers lah.

The number of datacenters and amount of GPU sold into Malaysia don't pass the smell test though.

how many GPU sold here. as far as I know a single data center got at least hundreds or thousands of GPU.

Yet TNB doesn't complain about lack of power utilization or generation by those supposed data center with a lot of GPU.

Strange that even Elon Musk had to resort to powering its GROK AI with illegal generators since the power company in state the AI datacenter located is unable to provide power for time being.

Very strange.

tamak , wait amd ati revenge

3 million GPU been sold to Malaysia.... 1 data center max 32k GPU so we have 93 max data centers? well, we have official 54 data center but even then, all of them swap gpu this week? this is very SUS... 3 million GPU buy in a week...

Exactly this.

There will be overflow of second hand GPU in the market right now if all of those data centers swap gpu all in the same week.
But there is no sign of that.

If Malaysia really use that much amount of GPU, TNB already complaining due to extra load on limited power generation capacity or there will be some blackout in Peninsula by now.

Unless if those data centers want to operate their own generators/battery/solar which I don't see it happening.

Jilake we are subsidizing price for US pulak

luckily i just bought my 5070 Ti last month...

keeping mah 3070

hopefully can still function

will this help reduce our trade surplus with US since we import so much

btw, it is not 3 million but value of 3+ billion dollor worth of GPU. a single data center gpu can be 5 to 6 figures usd. so may just be about 100k gpu sold.

This post has been edited by ipohps3: May 13 2025, 06:41 AM

thank you Trump

kecian gamers. want to enjoy make-belief world also need to pay alot.

gamers always kana game.

New games these days are not worth the hardware price anyway. Gonna sit out this woke wave.

You jgn cibai

When lead raise price, all peasants raise price

AMD GPU price here is already worse than NVIDIA. another RIP moment.

well might as well get a ps5 for gta6

with lossless scaling and ability to use 2nd gpu for FG, pc gamers are blessed with plentiful options to scale their graphics fps without buying stupidly expensive gpu like 5070 TI

Luckily I got my parit 4090 at 9.5k last year

With the price of GPU n CPU. Game company is the one who will die first.

Those who can afford the gaming rig wont have the luxury of time to play games.

Not practical for average gamers or normal average people to own such cards.

It's not just expensive. Those cards are incredibly power hungry. I don't need a BBQ oven in my room just to surf /k and play games occasionally.

Buy a game console or just emulators will do just fine for me. That is if I've enough free time to waste.

This post has been edited by petpenyubobo: May 13 2025, 02:21 PM

another year to skip building a new desktop.

doto2 bes.. no need high spec...

PC gaming is becoming (or already is) a luxury

by 2028, RTX 8090 128GB - RM50k
per AAA game, RM450 average

thats the thing eh? whats "average" tier to class these GPUs owners. for me i consider those XX60 cards almost as enthusiast level ed. cause casual average joe wouldnt drop RM2k on just a graphics card unless theyre into gaming alot

most normies wouldnt care abt graphics card at all and just play on consoles

Average tier users would just want a most recent integrated APU that supports the latest games with decent framerates and lighting/ray tracing effects.
Low power consumption and highly efficient.

Like the one found in STEAM Deck or Asus ROG Ally. Mobile CPUs/APUs such as the AMD Ryzen Z1.

Best CPU with Integrated Graphics in 2025 - PC Guide
https://www.pcguide.com/cpu/guide/best-integrated-graphics/

You don't want a hot grill or oversized box turned on the entire day that incurs high electricity bills.

Trend now is mini PC boxes size of your palm, passive cooling, console like graphics quality around that of a PS4/5. Ultra low power consumption like <30W TDP??

Affordably priced too.

Intel N100/105 seems to fit the bill..........
There are many China based mini PC, but almost none of them actually "consumer friendly" in term of support.

I wouldn't touch any of those N100/105 mini PCs.

At least go for 5000/7000 Series Ryzen based ones on Taobao/Lazada.

If can afford get at least those AMD Strix Halo with Radeon 8000 Series Integrated GPU and RDNA 3.5.

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/70442-amd-s...x-halo-laptops/

Or Intel Arc Series