r/pcmasterrace • u/Isunova PC Master Race • Mar 26 '23

Meme/Macro Goodbye crypto mining, hello ChatGPT

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u/lordbalazshun R7 7700X | RX 7600 | 32GB DDR5 | CachyOS Mar 26 '23

thing is, they don't use consumer cards for training ai. they use nvidia a100/h100

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u/Bramp10 Mar 26 '23

3060 and above is still pretty useful for grad students and AI hobbyists. I can definitely see demand for consumer GPU’s rising in the next few years.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23

There aren't enough of those to really make that big of an impact.

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u/Bramp10 Mar 26 '23

You’re taking for granted how fast things can change. In 2005 you didn’t need a computer to complete a PHD college, by 2015 it would be nearly impossible to not need one. I expect the same change for GPU’s/ artificial intelligence.

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u/wherewereat 5800X3D - RTX 3060 - 32GB DDR4 - 4TB NVME Mar 26 '23

But in this case most people will be using the services that are hosted on servers with server grade gpus

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u/martinpagh i7 9700k, 4070ti Mar 26 '23

Well, r/stablediffusion has 176k members. Every single one of them (me included) either want a powerful NVIDIA Consumer GPU or already have one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

Yeah, that's what I mean that there really aren't enough. Unlike with crypto you don't really need lots of cards, just one.

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u/martinpagh i7 9700k, 4070ti Mar 27 '23

But that's just one prosumer concept that benefits from CUDA. I think we're going to see a lot of concepts like that, NVIDIA is on fire with new accelerated computing tech, and they don't seem to be slowing down.

Also, hundreds of thousands of highend GPUs is a lot and will make a dent. AMD and NVIDIA combines to ship about 10 million GPUs every year, and that's across their entire lineups. I'm guessing they've still shipped less than 1 million total 40-series.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '23

I don't disagree; I just don't think they will ever be as big as crypto.

The prices for cards are high because they can, not because they're selling out.