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NVIDIA forces you to buy significantly more expensive cards that perform marginally better if you are using them for datacenter use. They try to enforce not le
by OkGoDoIt 7y ago
NVIDIA forces you to buy significantly more expensive cards that perform marginally better if you are using them for datacenter use. They try to enforce not letting businesses use consumer grade gaming cards. I assume this is so cloud providers don't buy up all the supply of graphics cards and make it hard for gamers to get decent cards, like what happened during the bitcoin craze.
- nkassis 7y agoNo it's just pure price discrimination. They don't care about gamers they just know businesses will pay more if forced to while gamers can't.
- aj7 7y agoExactly.
- gbba 7y agoI wouldn't say they don't care about gamers, considering that gaming makes up about half of their revenue: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15513/nvidia-releases-q4-fy2020-earnings-a-strong-quarter-closes-our-a-weaker-year https://www.anandtech.com/show/15513/nvidia-releases-q4-fy20...
- nkassis 7y agoSure sorry I realize now the point I was trying to make doesn't match my wording. They do care about selling to gamers but availability to gamers is not in anyway why they are forcing more expensive models of essentially the same cards on the HPC and server market. It's all because they can and the business market is able to bear the cost. Now if they found a true competitor in that market, I think this pricing model would fall apart fast.