• melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    4 days ago

    There is still a GPU shortage, but they just blamed Covid. Before they blamed crypto. Now they blame AI.

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      4 days ago

      Can’t artificially increase prices without artificially increasing demand by manufacturing an artificial shortage.

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      4 days ago

      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.

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        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.