• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    5 days ago

    …and 100 times as many GPUs as gamers!

    Being a PC gamer in 2024 kind of sucks when it takes 24gb of video RAM to run a video game and yet all the cards are being bought by institutional investors for AI.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      5 days ago

      For the record, these aren’t consumer GPUs. They’re a completely different beast, designed specifically for running transformer models and costing up to $70,000 each.

    • capital@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 days ago

      It hasn’t been difficult to get a GPU as a gamer for a few years now. What are you taking about?

      • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 days ago

        Also, what games are really maxing out the ram? My impression is that most modern GPUs are overkill in this pretty stagnant video game market.