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Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chip fabbing allocations are limited and what chips for Ai datacenters takeup, the desktop GPUs don't get made. And what's left of it are desktop chips sold for workstation Ai models like the RTX 5090 and even RX 7900 XTX because they have more memory. Meanwhile they still sell 8GB cards to gamers when it hasn't been enough for a while. Whole situation is just absurd.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Unfortunately, no one is buying a 7900 XTX for AI, mostly not a 5090 either. The 5090 didn’t even work till recently and still doesn’t work with many projects, doubly so for the 7900 XTX.

    The fab capacity thing is an issue, but not as much as you’d think since the process nodes are different.

    Again, I am trying to emphasize, a lot of this is just Nvidia being greedy as shit. They are skimping on VRAM/busses and gouging gamers because they can.

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