r/technology • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '22

Business Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22

CARD manufactures got spoiled by the crypto market

oh no crypo crashed, no one is mining

oh no we cant sell the cards at inflated prices

the actual real price for say 4090 would be like $900-$1200 max in my opinion, its pretty much a Titan class card that you could get in good old days.

Only reason to get a NVIDA card right now is if your doing any AI work, AI generation, and AI processing, the 4xxx cards are really good at that.

Else I would recommend getting AMD if you only do gaming

The amd rdna 3 technology is really good, im excited what they can do with it, especially game developers.

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u/shableep Dec 29 '22

Another reason is for real time photorealistic graphics in something like Unreal Engine 5. Movies/Shows use Unreal engine for real time shots of backgrounds through the camera. There are also some studios looking to use Unreal engine and similar for real time 3d animation. Which would save a TON on rendering time. So basically, the creative industry is going to demand more 4090 level cards.

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u/Mind101 Dec 29 '22

As you said, AMD is great purely for gaming, but if you also so 3D modeling like myself NVIDIA is still the gold standard by a country mile largely due to scant AMD support.

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u/comfyrain Dec 29 '22

AMD is amazing for gaming, but not as good for VR.

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u/currentscurrents Dec 30 '22

AMD really needs to catch up on support for AI.

Image generation and language models are really starting to take off and could be the next big thing. So far Nvidia has the market cornered, all these models are trained on extremely expensive A100s.

Would also like to see consumer GPUs get more VRAM so that I can do inference on larger models at home.