Historically Nvidia's professional-grade and consumer products were artificially segmented. The only difference was in their amount of VRAM, with recent example

Historically Nvidia's professional-grade and consumer products were artificially segmented. The only difference was in their amount of VRAM, with recent example is the Pascal-generation GeForce 1080 vs. the P100 that someone else has compared in detail: https://medium.com/@alexbaldo/a-comparison-between-nvidias-geforce-gtx-1080-and-tesla-p100-for-deep-learning-81a918d5b2c7 https://medium.com/@alexbaldo/a-comparison-between-nvidias-g... But in recent years Nvidia has added harder gating in between their products, the biggest being SLI or NVLink support reduced starting with Pascal and now entirely dropped in the latest Ada Lovelace generation. Effectively forcing you to buy the professional chips. A different angle - how long before Google, Microsoft, and Amazon design and deploy their own "GPUs" instead of buying from Nvidia? They've all started with their own ARM SOCs so surely it's inevitable.