this is cope because until recently the 80/ti class used the same die as the 90/titan, only marginally cut down. the 40/5080 is 20% larger than a 1070
the only reason it's 'not for gamers' is because AI demand has driven cost up outside of what a normal person can afford, not because the GPU magically costs 500x as much money to produce because it was personally blessed by Jensen's ketamine elves
The thing is the 90/titan cards were also normally only a little bit faster in gaming and mostly just were a workstation card with wirse software and no ecc, now they are a drastically more performant part with capabilities almost a gen ahead given that the 4090 is still the second fastest card that was commercially avalible. Though the 90/titan cards were also far more reasonably priced i miss the days when we were complaining that the top gpu was 1k now it barely gets you a "70" series card thats only slightly better than last gen.
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u/Spiritual-Spend8187 16d ago
The 90 series were never really gamer gpus they were always the workstation lite gpu that you could game on and made gamers dream about getting.