Would it really be unexpected? They’ve blatantly shown how they want to milk us for every little, incremental improvement that barely qualifies as a sidegrade sometimes.
I don’t get this argument at all. Unless you’re buying gpus based on their name (xx80, xx70 etc), 40 series have been consistently cheaper than 30 series at any performance level. Nobody’s going to think “$850 for a 4070ti is too much” and buy a 3090ti for $1500 instead.
I’ve yet to encounter a game my 2080s couldn’t run at 144hz max graphics… Why are we still pumping out $800-1200 gpus when there’s nothing requiring that amount of power?
Recently upgraded both CPU and GPU for better VR performance. Before this my 3070 was struggling a bit with cyberpunk on the 4k TV. There’s also productivity and AI stuff people deal with these days.
There’s plenty of needs that require more and more power.
I dont understand the VRAM cuts… The RAM fabs have been cutting production because of low prices
I would love more VRAM so that i can have a GPU that can do a bit of gaming and dabble in some AI stuff. 100% agree i’d pay for more VRAM instead of horsepower
More memory means you can do real work with it, and enterprise AI training is a money printer that they’d be scavenging the shit out of with cards that are closer substitutes.
Honestly, the gap between the server parallel compute cards and the home video cards isn’t that large. 24GB on video cards, 80GB for a compute card.
That’s not even two binary orders of magnitude. That’s a narrow window to try to make their money from. Plus, some tasks can be subdivided and run on multiple GPUs, and they can’t segment up the market for those.
Like, in general, my bet is that when for most things that fit the above requirements of fitting in that window and having a task that can’t be subdivided, there’s probably enough room for algorithmic improvements to get two binary orders of magnitude of reduction in memory requirements.
But then you can do work with it, and that’s where the real money is at.
They should all be shipping with 32GB now… AMD is at least seeing the light by releasing some 24gb cards under $1k
Really hope Intel’s next generation of GPU silicon makes it a more realistic substitute - that would actually spice things up a lot, you basically won’t see real competition again until nVidia’s AI training dominance is in someone’s crosshairs
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