Recent content by HockeyJon

It wouldn’t work. A GPU is now just a general compute device and consumers will treat it as such. Nvidia has been advertising and developing parallel computing via GPUs for years, but along the way, gaming remained the primary application. It no longer is. You also need the technical...

Yes, but to be fair, "net worth over a million dollars" and "having a million dollars you can spend" are not necessarily the same thing. Depends a lot on where the money is. I live in the Toronto area in Canada, and many people here have a net worth over a million dollars simply because they...

They were selling to Russian companies that were sanctioned under US law for being tied to the Russian war economy.

I agree, but the agenda isn't hidden. They're telling you that spreading wokeness is the goal, which is precisely the problem they're running into, because none of them are asking if the players want it or not.

Agreed. I tried to like Andromeda, but eventually gave up. I couldn't get into the story because there was nothing about the characters that made me care about any of them, but I also found the gameplay to be rather repetitive. Everything I did in that game felt like a repackaged version of...

They'll see it as a sacrifice to the greater cause, that eventually they'll shame enough people into pushing their viewpoint and forcing purchases as a demonstration of your moral virtues. This is a religion and they will eventually make you "see the light" through institutional capture and...

Alibaba's Qwen in particular has been cited for driving the huge spike we've seen recently. Alex Karp's speech about owning your data by localizing AI has also been a big contributor.

At least until 2030 based on current VRAM supply agreements. The antidote to this will be more companies bringing capacity online (and not being banned by the US government).

You can do plenty with it, it just depends on the model you're using. I'm starting to see AI performance advertised for even the 5060Ti at this point.

Gaming won't die off, but two things will likely happen: 1) People will come to the realization they can game without "4K RT PATHTRACING DLSS ELEVENTY BILLION OMG OMG OMG" and still have fun, like we did for years. 2) The upgrade cycle will be more about need vs want. Maybe you don't need an...

AI people.

Ah. Just saying because I read about a guy who would take it out and inspect it every few months, and then it failed.

They’re only rated for like 20 cycles or something, so repeatedly checking it would make it worse.

That’s the problem. You can sell, but then what do you buy? And how long will it be before things become affordable again so you can get back to where you were? The spike in the past month has been huge across the board. Even Radeon cards are spiking sharply here now.

Dude, the people working on these projects are explicitly saying identity politics is intrinsic into their design and story narratives. This isn't an assumption, listen to what they're telling you.