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One could argue this is the exact same thing: protecting their long-time customers from a small number of big customers (datacenters) that can afford to dramati
by creato 5y ago
One could argue this is the exact same thing: protecting their long-time customers from a small number of big customers (datacenters) that can afford to dramatically out-price their gamer customers temporarily, but might disappear (if they develop their own hardware?) not too long from now.
- babypuncher 5y agoI think it's more that Nvidia knows datacenter customers have the money to pay a premium for "datacenter grade" products.
- InvertedRhodium 5y agoIsn't that kind of the point? If consumers and enterprises were competing for the same product, we would probably see a similar situation as we are with consumers and miners.
- babypuncher 5y agoWe would also see higher prices for consumers, since Nvidia would need to crank up higher profit margin a bit on their RTX cards to make the same average profit per chip sold without their high margin Quadro cards going to enterprise.