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Because the 5090 ostensibly targets gaming which only needs sufficient vram to display images on 4k textures on 4k, 5k and ultra-wide monitors. A large portion
by bbatha 3y ago
Because the 5090 ostensibly targets gaming which only needs sufficient vram to display images on 4k textures on 4k, 5k and ultra-wide monitors. A large portion of the 5090 audience is not doing ML training and that vram would sit idle for a few monitor generations. As a gamer I would be kind of upset if they included that very expensive unneeded vram in their already very expensive cards.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoAs someone who is a gamer but also wants to dabble in ML, it kind of hurts tbh that this is probably true. The xx90 cards (3090, 4090, etc) have always been aimed at the gamer with a lot of cash. But games aren't really designed with that hardware in mind, so you won't see games that will take advantage of that much VRAM, so NVIDIA isn't inclined to increase the memory on them. I have a 3080 right now, so haven't really been able to play around with training a model, but I'd like to see the 5090 have 32 GB, but I'm having my doubts.