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> However, if you don't need a blower GPU and use applications that aren't specifically de-optimized by Nvidia's GeForce drivers, the RTX 4090 ($1,599 MSRP) can
by quanto 3y ago
> However, if you don't need a blower GPU and use applications that aren't specifically de-optimized by Nvidia's GeForce drivers, the RTX 4090 ($1,599 MSRP) can lend you its firepower for 76% less than the cost of an RTX 6000 Ada.
Does nVidia specifically de-optimize (read: handicap) GeForce drivers for certain applications?
- dotnet00 3y agoSomewhat, yes. Eg the consumer GPUs limit the fp16 accumulation rate to limit how well that scales for training models.
- MaxikCZ 3y agoThat is only possible because of effective monopoly. How is that not getting sued to bones I don't know.
- kwonkicker 3y ago[flagged]
- parineum 3y agoBecause monopolies aren't illegal.
- dotnet00 3y agoProduct segmentation isn't illegal... as much as it sucks for us consumers. It's a similar thing to AMD sometimes (especially later into a process node's maturity) taking higher quality chiplets with more functional cores and turning off the cores to sell in a lower cost higher demand product or Intel doing similar with their chips. It'd be illegal if they were lying about it.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoArtificially segmenting when there is no ongoing cost seems like borderline fraud. Subscription payments for heated seats or dark cores strike me as destroying the environment and fleecing consumers for short-term gains.