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Nvidia won, we all lost

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monster_truck ◴[] No.44468692[source]
Remember when nvidia got caught dropping 2 bits of color information to beat ati in benchmarks? I still can't believe anyone has trusted them since! That is an insane thing to do considering the purpose of the product.

For as long as they have competition, I will support those companies instead. If they all fail, I guess I will start one. My spite for them knows no limits

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1. 827a ◴[] No.44470037[source]
People need to start asking more questions about why the RTX 50 series (Blackwell) has almost no performance uplift over the RTX 40 series (Ada/Hopper), and also conveniently its impossible to find B200s.
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2. monster_truck ◴[] No.44514129[source]
Nvidia is quietly having their Intel moment.

The 1080ti can be analogized to Sandy Bridge/The 2600k: Insane performance per dollar, generous binning, and plenty of room left for overclocking. Held up with minimal concessions for a decade, still fine with mild compromises past that.

Every generation since? Gives less and less, all Nvidia can do is all they've ever done: press up against the aspect limit of the dies and lean into their massive scale. What's fun about this go round is that the lines are far blurrier between Consumer & Enterprise, a bunch of 5090s is not hamstrung from doing the things a B200 can in the way a 2600k or i9 is compared to a xeon processor. On top of this, there is an entire cottage industry dedicated to adding additional VRAM to old cards and harvesting GPUs from otherwise broken video cards and swapping them onto new boards.