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Comment by brucethemoose2 | Hacker News Reader

Its insane that a 2020 gaming GPU is such a niche for deep learning. Thats ancient history in the world of graphics, and its only that way because the market is straight up anticompetitive (and AMD is too dense to break out of it with a 48GB consumer card).

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48GB consumer card won't change much if people are already passing over the much cheaper AMD 7900XTX that has 24GB. Nvidia is winning because of the perceived CUDA to ROCm gap, that's all it comes down to. (and they're winning in the consumer space because of the DLSS and FSR gap)

I passed over the 7900 XTX because its not worth the trouble over a 3090.

That calculus totally changes with 48GB. I would put up with A LOT of trouble for that.

The RTX 3090 is still one of the best gaming/consumer GPUs, beat only by the 4080 and 4090. And the 5000 series might still be almost a year away.

And that it was considered highly overpriced at the time (for gaming) but now seen as a bargain choice.

It wasn't available at MSRP for a long time because of its mining performance. The price dropped a lot since ETH went PoS and the cheaper lower end 40 series are nearly as fast in gaming.

it's not anticompetitive, amd was just too late to the GPU compute punch and was deservingly punished by the market for it. Near-unlimited upside for world-changing technology is a positive part of the system IMO

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