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Maybe you’re confusing an A100 for something like an RTX 4090? No one is using an A100 for gaming. They’re > $10k. They don’t even have video out. They’re also

Maybe you’re confusing an A100 for something like an RTX 4090? No one is using an A100 for gaming. They’re > $10k. They don’t even have video out. They’re also actually slower for most gaming and related tasks - the RTX 4090 is juiced to the gills power and heat be damned all to push frames as fast as possible. The A100 is heavily optimized for dense datacenter applications where power and heat are among the top concerns. They also have up to 80GB of RAM, and the RTX 4090 has 24GB which is a ways away from “an order of magnitude” less memory when the M2 Ultra supports a max of 192GB of unified memory.

catchnear4321 3y ago
in a way the confusion proves the point. in terms of real usage, a sizeable population of users won’t actually benefit from upgradable graphics. for gaming or otherwise. even a lone A100. (how many users not only use an A100 but also installed it? yes, that’s silly.) knowing an upgrade is possible, knowing an upgrade is sensible, knowing how to upgrade, and actually performing the upgrade (and successfully) are all steps down the upgrade path. would suspect the conversion rate on that is quite low considering the size of the funnel at the start. especially with the last few years of logistics. as for these unified macs, if the system starts to show weakness, then yes, time to consider that it isn’t the right tool for the job, and maybe it is time to push that workload to a dedicated gaming pc (for now) or the cloud (for scale.) and, yes, there is still option 3. maybe time for an upgrade… of the entire system. even with the benefit of a curated environment, that is a hefty cost. everything gets replaced or nothing gets upgraded. which, full circle, only matters when an upgrade matters. will it?

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Maybe you’re confusing an A100 for something like an RTX 4090? No one is using an A100 for gaming. They’re > $10k. They don’t even have video out. They’re also

by kkielhofner 3y ago

catchnear4321 3y ago
in a way the confusion proves the point. in terms of real usage, a sizeable population of users won’t actually benefit from upgradable graphics. for gaming or otherwise. even a lone A100. (how many users not only use an A100 but also installed it? yes, that’s silly.) knowing an upgrade is possible, knowing an upgrade is sensible, knowing how to upgrade, and actually performing the upgrade (and successfully) are all steps down the upgrade path. would suspect the conversion rate on that is quite low considering the size of the funnel at the start. especially with the last few years of logistics. as for these unified macs, if the system starts to show weakness, then yes, time to consider that it isn’t the right tool for the job, and maybe it is time to push that workload to a dedicated gaming pc (for now) or the cloud (for scale.) and, yes, there is still option 3. maybe time for an upgrade… of the entire system. even with the benefit of a curated environment, that is a hefty cost. everything gets replaced or nothing gets upgraded. which, full circle, only matters when an upgrade matters. will it?