If every customer were actually a priority, then Nvidia would have a decent selection of low-end graphics cards for the entry market.
The fact that these clowns can pay fake news to run these headlines is telling tale sign that the corpo has zero respect for the organic slaves. Only thing corporate respects in practice is another corpo.
I think Nvidia is deliberately choking the low end supply artifically anyway.
…And to be fair, customers are being dopes too. Apparently a huge chunk of buyers are just blindly buying Nvidia without even looking the direction of excellently priced Arc/Radeon cards.
Bc they believe nvidia to be the only “plug and play” solution, which tbf was not the case for Arc while it was struggling with dx11 support. But now that the 50-series has proven to be just as fiddly as people’s perception of AMD software-wise… nothing’s gonna change lmao, it’s nvidia with nvidia budget for
liespromotion and marketing
Honestly Nvidia is probably telling the truth here: the OpenAI deal is all just hype, to keep the OpenAI hypetrain going.
It doesn’t mean better gaming GPU prices, of course. Tthe Intel deal is the death blow for that (as it likely means the death of Arc).
Agreed, I also think the Open AI press release is just perception management.
Forgive my ignorance. Would these be mainly for gaming, or are there other use cases, like 4k video effects rendering or something?
When Nvidia talks ‘datacenter’ it is talking almost exclusively B200 and H200, gigantic HBM GPUs that will only ever be socketed into servers in sets of 8; the silicon is never to be used for gaming.
https://www.servethehome.com/new-shots-of-the-nvidia-hgx-b200-astera-labs/
A little bit of 5090 silicon gets vacuumed up for ‘low end’ accelerators, but this is relatively low volume.
People do rent them for Blender rendering and other GPGPU stuff, but the vast majority is probably being used for AI inference (or, honestly, just hoarded by companies who don’t really understand ML and let them sit there under-utilized :/)
Point I’m making is they’re not talking about gaming GPUs here. Making so many ‘AI’ GPUs does impact how much TSMC can allocate to gaming, but this announcemet has nothing to do with that.
So, they’re saying other AI customers will “continue to be a top priority”? That makes sense given your explanation. I care even less now about this statement from Nvidia.
So, they’re saying other AI customers will “continue to be a top priority”?
Precisely, yes.
Google bought Motorola for $12B, then had to sell it a couple years later for $3B. Becoming a competitor against your own customers is rarely a winning move.
