Unfortunately I feel we’ll be forever prone to this now that GPUs are useful for far more than just gaming. The market is being shared with people who are willing to spend a lot more for the same silicon.
The vendors should stop calling it GPUs if its not used as a GPU. AI workloads are not GPU, cryptomining are not GPU. Nvidia and alike should create a different name for it. Nvidia H100 for example is still called GPU, but it has nothing to do with a normal GPU you and I use.
During the Covid GPU shortage, my card died and I had to go back to my Geforce 9800 GX2. A monster of a card (in 2008).
I did not have a good time. But it was incredible it even worked at all.
There is still a GPU shortage, but they just blamed Covid. Before they blamed crypto. Now they blame AI.
Can’t artificially increase prices without artificially increasing demand by manufacturing an artificial shortage.
I’m aware of the current shortage.
Unfortunately I feel we’ll be forever prone to this now that GPUs are useful for far more than just gaming. The market is being shared with people who are willing to spend a lot more for the same silicon.
The vendors should stop calling it GPUs if its not used as a GPU. AI workloads are not GPU, cryptomining are not GPU. Nvidia and alike should create a different name for it. Nvidia H100 for example is still called GPU, but it has nothing to do with a normal GPU you and I use.
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that is also fine. Or just call it “AI cards” when these chips are obviously meant from AI interference workloads.
It’s about the type of computation it does, not their fault it fits better for those use cases lol