Why does this GPU cost so much? It seems to be like an RTX 3060 Ti/3070 with more VRAM and less power draw. Does that really justify the price tag?
> No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.
I could never figure out why they allowed blockchain processing, given how wasteful much of it was and how it impacted card supply for years, but there you go.
But I suppose that the idea could be to protect their gaming market in a way. If datacenters were buying up gaming GPUs then that could cause shortages for regular customers.
The segmentation is a huge mess from NVIDIA. Consumer grade GPUs aren't supposed to be run in data-center / compute (forbidden by EULA) and the workstation GPUs are in a weird middleground limbo, being many times more expensive, but not exactly attractive for server use for the above reasons.