I think this current growth cycle has a strong potential to be a lot more sustainable due to AI being both day-to-day useful to almost everyone and still fairly early in the development as opposed to PoW crypto tokens vast majority of which had rather dubious value to anyone besides the...
Nvidia’s fiscal quarter runs through Oct 31st and they report financials mid-Nov, so in about 5 weeks we should find out whether they managed to ship the 5,000 GPU yet, thus satisfying 10% of lifetime demand for the GA102.
If the rumors about Turning SKUs being EOLed are correct, they need to get it the stack turned as holiday season opens up unless they want to leave money on the table. Whether they can secure enough capacity for meaningful availibility is an obvious question ATM.
GPUs <> Card SKUs.
They could have:
N21: 80cu = 6900 (XT) and <80ccu = 6900 (plain) or 6800.
N22: 40cu = 6800 (XT) and <40ccu = 6800 (plain) or 6700.
etc.
Looking at addressable market among Nvidia owners alone and the number of $600-700 GPUs out there spanning 980, 980TI, 1080, 1080TI, 2070 and even some of the 2080, it would probably take 6-9 months or more of non-stop production with plants and fabs running full tilt. Turning's poor value...
You recall up to 100 people lining up outside of stores for a $700 GPU lunch, like it's a new iPhone? Cause I sure don't.
I am sorry, but that guy has proven himself misinformed at best, and stupid at worst, so many times now. How does a no-name youtuber mumbling nonsense into the camera rise...
While we are going down the memory lane, there "was" also Rampage + Sage design that RTX 3090 may perhaps finally surpass in performance.
Has really been 18 years? I feel so f-ing old.
Not really. It has been important when the GPUs are close in performance, because then it becomes a differentiator. R290 series had a lot of power-related sins overlooked due to excellent performance, while various Fermi offshoots had it held against them even after Nvidia massacred their cost...