• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    It’s more that back then was a better time for price to performance value. The 3000 and 4000 series cards were basically linear upgrades in terms of price to performance.

    It’s an indicator that there haven’t been major innovations in the GPU space, besides perhaps the addition of the AI and Raytracing stuff, if you want to count those as upgrades.

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      5 months ago

      It feels like the crypto mining goldrush really changed the way GPU manufacturers view the market.

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        5 months ago

        I feel like AI has changed the game. Why sell retail when people are paying you billions to run LLMs in the cloud.