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Could be. What would you do, if GPU *ownership* disappeared off the market, and they went rental-only? Both for gaming, and potentially, crypto and other CUDA applications?
What I'd tell them isn't allowed to be said in the forum's technical forums.Could be. What would you do, if GPU *ownership* disappeared off the market, and they went rental-only? Both for gaming, and potentially, crypto and other CUDA applications?
Then AMD would capture most of the market... They would get my money....Think of it this way - if GPU prices at the high-end (for the "cinematic" experience) keep increasing, they will eventually get priced out of the range of nearly every gamer (irregardless of what the crypto market does). Why not pay for a GPU time-share for 3-4 hours / day instead for gaming purposes, and only pay a percentage of the total GPU's cost.
(Much like a time-share condo.)
Taking this news alongside NV rumored to actually STOP producing 30-series GPUs, and now their interest in rental, well, both of those are a 1-2 punch, aren't they.
I welcome to the collapse of the insane GPU pricing. There will be a bust. How far in the future that is, I'm not sure. But it will happen.Think of it this way - if GPU prices at the high-end (for the "cinematic" experience) keep increasing, they will eventually get priced out of the range of nearly every gamer (irregardless of what the crypto market does).
Sigh. I've mostly done the same, but on the other hand, yesterday's "scalper prices" become today's "suggested MSRP". So, on the assumption that prices are going to continue to rise, better to buy now than later.I know I've already said "nope" at their current insane pricing levels. There's more to life than buying $700 MSRP video cards for $3000 because they create magical funny "money".
I know AMD and Nvidia will increase their MSRPs for sure, and that's bad enough.Sigh. I've mostly done the same, but on the other hand, yesterday's "scalper prices" become today's "suggested MSRP". So, on the assumption that prices are going to continue to rise, better to buy now than later.
I'm sorry to hear that. The whole Chia introduction and subsequent crash was a curious sort of case-study. (I'm not a fan of Chia.)Sadly for me, the whole sudden increase in computer component's pricing because of the latest craze (like Chia and the various cryptos) has completely taken my interest out of PCs for the most part.
Detest it. Sooner the trend dies, the better.That being said, am I the only one who can't stand all these various YouTuber's "surprised", "angry", and "deep-thought" faces they all seem to put in their videos to try to get people to watch it?
You'll still need at least an iGPU if you want to do anything else with the computer unless you pay for a dGPU ( which cost high-end prices).Think of it this way - if GPU prices at the high-end (for the "cinematic" experience) keep increasing, they will eventually get priced out of the range of nearly every gamer (irregardless of what the crypto market does). Why not pay for a GPU time-share for 3-4 hours / day instead for gaming purposes, and only pay a percentage of the total GPU's cost.
(Much like a time-share condo.)
How does the cloud give you a 10x performance increase over the desktop? The GPU has a limited amount of performance, the more tasks it does, the less it has available for each individual task.Not quite sure how an announcement of a higher end geforce now subscription became Nvidia will go cloud only?
In all seriousness however assuming the internet continues to improve (bandwidth and latency) then cloud gaming makes more and more sense - it is a much more efficient use of gpu resources. If you have a gpu in your home pc then 1 gpu services 1 person, on the cloud it can service 10 people or more easily. If gpu's continue to get more complex and more expensive this is a solution.
How does the cloud give you a 10x performance increase over the desktop? The GPU has a limited amount of performance, the more tasks it does, the less it has available for each individual task.
He means timesharing.How does the cloud give you a 10x performance increase over the desktop? The GPU has a limited amount of performance, the more tasks it does, the less it has available for each individual task.
Yeah I hate that too. All of them saying X card is redacted because it's not worth the price, but have dozens of GPUs gathering dust on their shelves. I don't watch any of them anymore, especially those that do the sad face but the week after post a video showing them assembling a new PC with a brand new 3090 or 6900 XT.That being said, am I the only one who can't stand all these various YouTuber's "surprised", "angry", and "deep-thought" faces they all seem to put in their videos to try to get people to watch it?
I can't imagine competitive esports, FPS, or TBS games working all that good. I believe you only get 8 hours per day max as well - I've never done that in one sitting, but I probably have over a 24 hour period.He means timesharing.
That is where the The Davos philosophy comes from. "You'll own nothing and be happy". Isn't it obvious that a lot of the major players want a rental future.
The Premium tier is $100/yr, 3080 tier is $200/yr. Is the 3090 tier $400/yr (MSRP is 2x 3080).Well, if you run at 720p with medium graphics settings, a 3090 could probably handle 10 games.
As others said timesharing, I assumed that was obvious as that's how the cloud works. Given a big enough group of people you will end up with a fairly steady usage pattern for processing power used, the peaks of that will be a small fraction of the processing power available if the everyone had a machine at home. Hence it's a much more efficent use of resources to all use the cloud as you need a fraction of the processing power (gpu's) and because data can travel down wires at near lightspeed it's the ideal hardware to share.How does the cloud give you a 10x performance increase over the desktop? The GPU has a limited amount of performance, the more tasks it does, the less it has available for each individual task.