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Then they couldn't charge different customers different amounts for the same HW. It's not a win for everyone.

• axus 3y ago
  The price of 4090 may increase now, in theory locking out some features might have been a favor for some of the customers.
  • Sayrus 3y ago
    But it wouldn't if all cards supporting this were "unlocked" by default and thus the other "enterprise-grade" cards weren't that much more expensive. Of course that'd reduce profits by a lot.
    • paulmd 3y ago
      it probably would - you saw exactly that outcome with mining. for a lot of these demand bursts, demand is so high it cannot be sated even consuming 100% or 200% of typical GPU production. cards like RX 6500XT that simply don't have the RAM to participate were less affected, but even then you've got enough cross-elasticity (demand from people being crowded out of other product segments) that tends to pump prices to 2-3x the "normal" clearance prices we see today. And yes, absolutely anything that can mine in any capacity will get pulled in during that sort of boom/bubble, not just "high-end"/"enterprise".
• greggsy 3y ago
  Which (as controversial as it sounds in this kind of forum) is a sensible pricing model to recover and fund R&D and finance operations.